The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-22
ANDREW AND
 IWOGENE
By ROE FULKERsON

'I see by the paper that Nellie Madert Is to be married" remarked Andrew. "The announcement Is here.'
 "Ysobel Harris, also" replied Imo- gene; "her announcement was iB the morning paper"
 Whats happened that these chick ems have all decided to go to roost?" asked Andrew.
 Tt is the time of year, said Imo- gene.
 You mean that there is a long. cold winter coming, or that the goose bone Is unusually big or something like that?" smiled Andrew
 Certainly not" said Imogene, in- dignantly; women do not marry through superstition A woman may be as silly as you suggest. but when it comes to matrifnony she uses her head, for 1t is the one big adventure of womans life. Men may think she takes to matrimony lightly or that he has overpersuaded her to marry him, but every time the | preacher says Do you take this womani-J the man standing in front of him tells lie, for it was the woman who took him.
 'The reason l said it was the time ] of year which made these two girls get married is because there are two times in the life of every thinking she was selecting her coop. 'fThe first time is in June, when | the school and college commence ments are on and she attends the hops, graduating exercises and class days of the school from which she graduated
 She looks over the pretty bunch of girls that graduate, and thinks of the hundreds and hundreds of girls that are being turned out by all the other schools and %colleges and sud denly realizes that all the girls are younger than she is, likely enough , better looking because of that fact and that they are her competitors in the real business of life, which is getting married.
 "The natural result of this is that when she goes home she closes any negotiations she may have pending with man who has been held up temporarily.
 This makes the season just after the graduating exercises one of the very businest engagement seasons of the year. If l were man trying to marry a girl l would do all in my power to get her to go back to her college to the graduating exercises"
 But they are over some time ago." grinned Andrew.
 T said there were two seasons" replied Imogene. "The other season Is when they are just getting back from their vacations at the seashore and mountains. springs and country boarding houses.
 After vacation at these resorts and associating with the men women meet there woman is willing to marry any man not actually de- formed
 At the seaside it is the sand lizard, the orangeade thinker, the flannel trousered board walk flirt who ought to be taken out to the end of the pier and dropped overheard
 At the farm 1t Is the bespectacled spindle -shanked man with big net chasing grasshopper around a field and then putting in the nights im- paling him on a pin and card index ing him.
 At the springs 1t is the man with symptoms who takes nine different drinks of water at certain times a day. He talks about his insides like mechanic talking about the inside of your automobile engine.
 Tn the mountains 1t Is the man descended from a goat who wants to see how high he can climb each day so he can brag about 1t each night.
 "A month or so of these and again a woman rushes home to close with