The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-05-12

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put l nave never had beau. No
n n mas ever even looked at me a
ST,i,I tIIne' nave never even danced
VIII man or gone automobihng with
man who wasn't old enough to be
< ny tatner' or young enough to be my
E,u orother, Tor live in little New
i.nslaho village in which, in my recol-
tTGIion mere has never been a single
eilglple man In my class of society
rs me young men grow up they all go
"way 10 seek their fortunes.
- frankly want to marry ! am do
nestic IN my tastes ana TIE only career
Inat Appeals TO me is that of wife and
30 years old. My hour Of grace is al
Ilost over. II | don marry in the next
Y"ar or Two my fate as an old maid
IS sealed. It is already signed, sealed
ana dellNered so far as my opportuni-
ues OF marriage in my home town are
concerned. Therefore, as | am strong
IN the oehef that heaven helps those
VINO help themselves. have been think
ing or advertising IN matrimonial
journal for husband
nat 90 you think OF 1t? Do you
ttn,nk VIII nave any chance OF estab-
Isnlhg an acquaintance in that way
win some man who might make me
Sulldble husband?
mat Is letter l received the other
Gay
lolterE even II entered into by man
and women who know each other and
mao an opportunity to study each other
what sort OF long Shot at happiness
is woman taxing who mafries some
stranger mat she IDENTITIES by his wear
ing white Carnation in the lapel OF
MS coat she hasn got eVen~n hundred
TO one chahCe OF winning a prize
she doesn Know what sort OF a past
the man mas. she doSSn Know Whether
ne met IN me same informal way scat
tereu abOut lne country She doesn
know what sort Of people he springs
from. nor what stains arc upon the
name she is making her own and Will
give to her children, and any one who
could be. guilty of such folly should
Ge locked un somewhere IN padded
teli where theY VIII he safe until they
come TO their senses.
There is Just one thing that woman
can he sure of in the husband she gets
through advertising, and that IS that
ne ls~the sort she doesn want, Tor
no man who hasn't some serious defect
OF mind or body, or who isn't an out
and-out adventurer needs to get a wife
that way. Heaven knows women are
not so particular about the KIND or
husbands they marry. and any man who
Is nail way decent Can-plCk out some
woman he already knows Tor a wire
and lead her to the altar.
pillSC We al d't'llt 'il't lll'l 10 10
the proper sphere for woman, ana the
one in WHICH she finds her own nigh
est happiness, and is most useful to
society, we, should encourage. her ON
in the husband hunt lnstead Oh pc
rating her lor golhS OUT On me Cndsv'
Nothing could be more idtotc and IN
consistent than our atutude IN ms
matter, and If we only mad enough m
teuigenCe to abolish the 1oollsh con
Nention that prevent women from
openly seeking her mate we shouId not
only have more marriages, out happier
ones. -.
For women know, what they want IN
q, husband, and II <they had IneiT cnoice
they would get u. IL is only because
they have to take any thlng that II
offered to them that they make "nat
appears to us to be such poor selec-
tons. = .,,.
would remind such one 9L ,w4
things. The flrst IS 10 use yIusiIISntt
in selecting her hunung grounu, Jus.
as there is no use IN tls sil IN a rtHer
in which there are no lsh, OF ea'iile
a bush in when there are no pllu1, ~
there is no prot1t IN SEEKING nus" US
band in places W Ile. me ne o'Ny men a
At present the happy hunting g ,,'oIII
Tor husbands is III tHe bu0lhtS0 VIZ ~