The Washington herald., 1920-05-26
Working Girls Have Best Chance "a
Marry. E.


Marry.
I'VE business girls have one con-
ISOLATION even II we do have to earn
our own bread and butter and jam"
said young woman the other day,
"and that Is that we have practi-
cally cornered the matrimonial
market. and get the first option on
most of the good things in the
marrying line.
And let me tell you that is no
small thing in these days when men
are scarce. and shy at the altar
anyway. and when husbands have
passed into the luxury class.
You may suppose that the rich
girl who has nothing to do but doll
herself up. and look pretty. and sit
on the family pedestal would have
the best chance to marry. Far from
1t. Cinderella the Typewriter Queen
has got the Fairy Princess left at
the Old Maids Home when 1t comes
to husband snaring. And not only
can the working girl marry oftener
and quicker than the rich girl. sne
can marry better.
LAS a matter of fact no other
girl has such a poor chance OF max
ing really good match as the
wealthy society girl. She is hand
icapped by her money. for men OF
honor and independence and pride
fight shy of her because. for one
thing. they do not want to be sus-
pected OF fortune hunting, and
because, for another thing, they can
not bear to put themselves into the
position of a hanger on and PEN
sioner of their wives.
Then the kind of men who are
going to be the famous professional
men and the big business men OF
twenty years hence are not hang
ing around drawing rooms, ana
yachting and poloinE Just now.
They are srubbing away in offices.
and wearing cheap clothes and
counting pennies, and the rich girl
never has any more chance of meet
ing them than she has of being in
troduced to the Nawab OF Jepore.
That leaves the matrimonial field
pretty much to the Papa's Son poys.
who are not much. and the rich
wife hunters, who are not many.
Perhaps 1t is because the million
airesses' choice is SO limited in hus-
bands. that very rich girls so often
give up trying TO find a man and
marry a title.
Oh NiiC OlhCF the DOOT RlTl
who works for her living, works
shoulder to shoulder with the com
ing man. She knows which ones
have ability and energy and initia-
tive. and which have in them that
mysterious something that takes a.
man out of the ranks and sets him
at the head. That's what 1 mean
by saying she has the first chancs
at all the good things.
AS to her ability to marry being
greater than the rich girls, that is
obvious. What's the good Of fishlnu
in a stream where there are no fish?
The working girl is where the
fishing is fine. Tho rich girl Is sitt-
ing high and dry in a parlor chair,
without a minnow being in five
miles of her. All she can do is to
cut bait, and pray for a miracle to
happen that will send some Door
fish her way. Which doesn't al
ways happen, there being discour-
aging times for the supernatural to
occur.
Now every woman knows there
are two difficulties in getting a hus-
band. The first is to find your man.
the business girl does this by the
simple expedient Of prosecuting her
o~eA~h Sne
Is where she sees scores Of men
every day. where she comes in con-
tact with them in her work, and
where she comes In contact with
them in her work, and whore she
gets to know Them, and they get to
know her. In this way she estab-
fishes cordial acquaintance with
men who are too busy or too bash
ful to ever call upon a dressed up
society girl with whom they would
have to be formal and on their p's
and as.
why, know a dozen women who
are now riding around in their own
limousines, and with money to burn.
who are married to just that type of
man-splendid fellows, with hearts
OF gold, but SO shy they would new
er have summoned up enough cour-
age to pop the question to any wo-
man, II they hadn't worked with
way.
The second dificulty of catching
a husband Is getting near enough
10 him to cast your lasso without
soaring him of. Let a man suspect
mat a woman. is camping on his
traii. and he beats It to the tall
nat y WueTe ndndRlnS
mothers, who gush over men and
tell them how sweet and amiable
Marie Is and how domestic Susan is,
ran down. The stupidest man sees
her fell designs upon him and side
steps them.
But business furnishes a girl
with q perfect alibi for always be-
ing about, and IL also camoufages
any Intentions she may have upon
mans single blessedness. He Is
suspicious Of the society girl who
must marry for meal ticket. and
afraid to trust himself in her vi
cinity. Z :.
Hes OF his guard. however.
where the business girl is concern
ed. She's got a perfectly good job,
and shows herself capable of hold
ing u down. and doesn't have to get
some man to pay her bills, So he
feels safe with her. and forgets that
no vamp on earth has any such
magic to conjure with as propin-
guilty. and that no other spell Is so
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