The Washington herald., 1921-05-20
Ffrst AID 10 MEtrfn0Dy.

large city. knows THAI one Of the
biggest needs In II b = clearing
house for youth and romance Some
place where nice. respectable boys
and girls may meet each other, and
have q goo. innocent time together,
and perhaps fan In love with each
other and get married. and know all
the time that everything is all
right because they have been o. KID
By the roof under which they have
been introduced
AT present there Is no such place.
Young people VINO go as strangers
to . city almost perish Of loneliness
during the nrst few months in
which they are aliens In an alien
land. Then they begin picking up
acquaintances on the street. at the
places where they work. at board
ing houses. and cheap restaurants.
and the result Is tragedy in innum-
erable cases.
Yet youth calls to youth, and man
to maid Every yong chap must
have his girl, and every girl must
have her man, and they must play
together, and have natural. normal
fun I get hundreds of letters
year from young men, asking me
how they may meet nice girls in the
cities in which they live, girls like
the sort they knew back home, and
even more letters from girls want
ing to know how they may get to
know worthy young men Of the type
who used to take them around to
parties, and to picture shows at
Sqeedunk or Bird Center.
And 1 have had to answer that /
don't know, and to beware of the
vamp with the rolling eye. and the
smiling youth who says. Excuse
me, miss, but didn't see you last
week at the ball at the Vantoria?
1 see my mistake now. but you are
so exactly like that girl who was
the most beautiful creature / ever
saw. that my error was perfectly
natural" etc, etc.
A prophet, however. has arisen in
Israel, who has a plan for solving
this great problem. He lives in New
Orleans, and has a bill now before
the Louisiana legislature, in which
communities CT 1000 and over are
authorized to establish social CEN
ters at which young people may
meet and mate under the chaperon-
age Of the law.
According to his plan, men and
women who wish companionship,
will go to the nearest matrimonial
station and register. Their records
will be thoroughly investigated.
and IL they are clean the matron in
charge will introduce them to a cir
Gle of other certified individuals.
OF course, 1t is then up to the man
and woman to find congenial ac-
quaintances, or. perhaps. the one
particular him or her. That is as
may be. Cupid is a choosy young
ster, and makes strange selections,
but the point is that here he is CIV
en- a working basis, and whomeyer
he picks out is more or less a guar
anteed article.
The author of this romantic bill
is so far enamored of wedding bells.
that he would have the State subsi-
die matrimony. Thar is going it
bit thick, as the English say, but
there is no doubt but that it would
be a good thing il there could be
some proper place established in
every city where young people who
have no homes and no facilities for
getting acquainted could meet un-
der the eye of a worldly wise and
lenient MTs. Grundy.
Just how this first aid to matri-
mony is to be conducted has not
been made public. Undoubtedly, its
QUESTIONABLE will be searching. and
all who enroll at it will have to tell
amount and source of their incomes,
the kind of disposition they have,
and what are their general matri-
monial qualifications.
This should enable those who are
seeking for life partners to make
much more intelligent selections
than are possible to those who get
their husbands and wives out of the
matrimonial grab bag. so to speak.
The thing that does more than
anything else to make marriage a
fatfrre, is the discovery. after you
get home and settle down to real
life. that you bought a pig in a poke.
as IL were, and that the man or
woman tc whom you have tied your
self for life isn't any more the in
Gividual you thought you were mar
rying than IL he or she was some
entire stranger whom you had never
set eyes on before.
Thus IL very often happens thaat a
girl is so misled by the rich pres
ents and the money that q man Law
ishes on her during the days of
courtship that she thinks she is
marrying millionaire; only to ind
out after marriage that he has
scarcely a shoestring of a salary:
or a man marries a girl under tha.
full belief that he is acquiring a
biue-ribbon cook, who dotes on a
gas range, to ascertain to his dis
pair that her mother made the angel
food, and that he is doomed to go
through life the victim of dyspepsia
brought on by his wife's BISCUIT.
or course. all these little mistakes
could be obviated by a man and
woman being able to look over
others record. They would have
each others number to begin with.
without having to correct a false
guess when II was too late.
Each of us cherishes in our fancy
our ideal of the kind of a wife or
husband we would like to have.
Every man knows every character
istic OF his dream woman. Every
woman knows every taste and little
quirk Of thought Of the hero of her
imagfnings; but we seldom marry
those with whom We would be two
souls with but a single thought.
two hearts that beat as one" be-
cause We do not know how to hnd