Arizona republican., 1922-06-12
The Once Over
DOMESTIC SHOOTING AFFRAYs
HIT JUNE BRIDEGROOM
aHAnKEr

This is the month of all-American
matrimonial adventures. June is
here, the parsons are all working on
twenty. four hour shifts, extra help
has been put on to answer the par
sonage doorbell. Mendelssohn's Ball
and Chain number Is being played by
thousands of conspiring organists, and
the sale of sl.25 rings has reached
an unprecedented height.
The Niagara Falls have been over
hauled, renovated. and improved
upon generally for the June bride
trade. Ten t1o) whirlpools, larger
and better than ever before. have
been added. On each side of the
river men are now employed to case
quantities of bromo- settler into the
falls to make them foam according
to the guarantee.
All the railroad and steamship lines
are offering special inducements TO
honeymooning couples. but it takes
only one look at the fares to give a
bridegroom his first proof that there
is nothing in the old adage that two
can travel as cheaply as one.
The high cost of travel is making
the honeymoon more and more diff
cult each June. Many wise BRIDE
groom is taking his bride to the
movies for the travel views and let
ting it go at that.
Any enterprising movie picture
house manager who advertises con-
tinuous showing of Niagara Falls. the
Great Lakes Atlantic City. and the
White Mountains throughout the
month of June will make his own
| fortune and help many young couple
| to start married life at minimum ex-
pense.
A little mention that there will be
a special showing Of Reno views DUR
| ing the year will hold the customers.
Early returns from the license bu-
reaus of the country show slght
| falling off of applicants. This is at
| tributed to the vast number OF DO
mestic shootings during the past few
months. Somehow or other a person
applying for a marriage license gets
| the idea it is the same as shooung
| license.
The men are particularly scary this
season. The recent newspaper an
nouncement that the government is
giving special instruction in marks
manship at federal rifle ranges 10
! women applicants has driven thou
sands of prospective husbands 70
| cover.
At Governors Island. according to
| government reports, enormous classes
| Of women have been perfecting them
selves In the art of shooting with pre-
| cis,on for several months. Most OF
| them are married women who have
tired of firing at their husbands ana
merely nicking floor lamps.
| There is nothing like accuracy IN
| the home when it comes TO snooting'
| 1t is. as a matter Of fact. absurd for
| a Young wife to start housekeepins
without a reputation for good marx :
manship. Be IL ever so bullet
marked, there's no place like home.
| Juries have done much to encour-
| age this schooling of women in tne ne
handling of firearms. In praelicaiiy, :,
| every murder trial during the past
five wears a wife who slew her hus-
| hand al the first shot has been ac-
shooters medal by the judge.
In every case where the wife fired se1
| several times before hitting ner
loved One the Jury verdict has been
the same but the court has given
her a rating of only 35 per cent IN
craftsmanship and sentenced her 70
six months in a rifle range unocr
competent instructor.
|
All of which makes single ma n
feel decidedly like remaining 50, de-
spite the June lure. 1t is our idea
thai a youth considering the state Of
matrimony should first take the lady
| TO a shooting gallery and let her take
a dollars worth of shots at the clay
pipes.
If she doesn't hit more than TWO
| out of five, he may feel reasonably
| safe in taking her from the shooting
! gallery to the narsonale-