Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-08

not been usurping this Leap Year preroeative of ours for 10, these many years? Because Abraham took unto himself wife" is no req son the rule won't work both ways. Who knows but that in the next cen- tury, or sooner, pretty Marie or charming Sue will crank up her air plane and start out on man hunt, capture him, domicile him in bun galow, give directions as to her pref erences in food, and parting injunc- tion (before she flies off to the next "meetNo not to be too extrava- gant in the way of masculine frip- peries of dress and to take good care of the children! This is Leap Year nightmare, you understand, borne of our unsettled times. Is it pipe dream that will go up in smoke?
 To come back to practical ideas, there is nothing quite so poignant as the disappointment and regret of spinsterhood, particularly if it is en- forced-that is, if there has never been an offer of marriage. One hears q think it's better to mar " JuoL yUOuy JHdH IlO OHc dC dll. "Pd rather give anything for good nanny money bags mean nothing to me. No matter how uncouth he might be, l wouldn't mind" Un- believable this statement, but it is bona fide. A woman of 40, we'll to do, made this remark recently in the presence of several women.
 The head nurse of big hospital was heard to say to a patient Git is supposed she thought the patient would die), "Id marry a tramp if he'd ask me-I'm so lonely"
 It is any wonder men are little chsry in their attentions these days They'll be nabbed if they don't watch out.
 Joking aside, it is natural and right to marry. Ones happiness is more likely to be fulfilled as wife than as spinster. tho the hazards are many, as our divorce courts tes- tify. Yet one must fortify oneself in q way before taking this step now. Two foolish people will shipwreck of certainty, and even one irre- sponsible party to marriage will cause a very dangerous rocking of the boat. But two sensible people, in love with each other, can breast the wave of matrimony if they set out in the right kind of dory-re- adapt themselves to simple living, effort and sensible planning and ex- inforced with determined resolves to penditure of income. Only in this way will dory be "all hunk-a-dory."
 A young man contemplating mar riage was diverted from it by the experience of a married brother who warned him of the unexpected con- tingencies" that arise a swamp one ally-"overhead" expenses of marriage as it were. Mothers are more fearful than ever before for their daughters (and their sons as welD to embark unless with a mate with diving" we'll assured.
 The Bachelor Girl.
 We abhor the girl who is ob- noxiously forward" in seeking to attract the attentions of men, but the listlcss, apathetic girl who is too lazy to do anything to make herself charming (tho she laments her sim gle state) is also reprehensible. There are old maids like this.
 Fortunately, some of our finest women are bachelor girls. They can do for us and the world what our married sisters cannot do, and they are living and working nobly.
 Women! Men! This is Leap Year. Forewarned is forearmed The times are insistent. It is not probable that either sex will indulge from now on in the inane reply to propo- sal, "Oh, this is so sudden" Women are out on still hunt for husbands as of old-sbut men are wary-unless Gin love" and then they are as blind and foolish as of oldi