The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-25

when l get married." said an am
bilious young man who has his
way to make In the world. "thore will
be none of your society buds or fashion
plates for mine. l am going TO pick
out for a wife a poor girl who has
had to economize all Of her life, and
who is used TO doing her own cooking
and making her W clothes. l want
a wife who has been reared to be
thrifty and Industrious. and whom !
can depend on to save my money, not
spend IT,"
III you do replied a worldly wise
woman, "then marry a girl who has
beer accustomed to having plenty OF
money all OF her life, not one who Is
hungry and starved for money and the
things that money buys, and to whom
a shopping ticket Is a card OF adnls-
sion to n reserved seat In the seventh
heaven.
"There are no such wasteful and ex-
t%ravagent women In the world as the
poor girls who suddenly get their hands
Into a mans pockets that have money
In them. All OF their lives they have
pinned for the pretty things that they
have seen other girls have, ana that
NANN haNt lNoN "p'e
the women's magazines. -.
Their very dreams have been OF
chiffonsT sweeping feathers, gorgeous
jewelfy, gilt furniture and gewsaws
and ~nicknacks, and when they get a
chance at buying them they go spend
department stores and bargain sales
as a famished mar does on rood hen
set down to a feast. They throw away
money Just for the sake OF throwing
II away, because 1t Is so Intoxicating
| to be able to Scorn that which. one has
shaved for and boarded as IL 1t had
been ones life blood.
"Besides this, the girl who has never
had any money has no standards OF
expenditure. The poor girl who mar
| ries a man who Ia getting two or three
thousand a year thinks that she Is
marrying h second Rockefeller, and
that there Is simply no end TO his In
come, while to the rich girl two OF
| three thousand a year Is poverty. Sht
feels that with such n shoestrlng OF ar
income they must economic in every
possible way, and so she nurses ever
nickel.
IA for the girl who has always
helped mother with the cooking, wash
ing and ironing. continuing to do hei
own Homework after marriage, II sh'
gets a man who a possibly affor'
a maid, there Is absolutely nothing do
ing for her. She has had enough o
wrestling with pots and pans to do he
for a lifetime. and she Is never goini
to touch another one II she can he'll
~, an n,s 20 wife who 'hn
49, "a,ea IN Stsb lar alI of he
Uyo pwbosa nno aim and desir
when she marries liz to swim ashor
TO some hotel or boarding house.
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