The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-12

Dear Miss Dix-The writer is a widower, and would like to know what advice you give lonesome wid- over. L would like to meet some nice widow. or maiden lady of middle age, l but do not know how to go about getting acquainted with such one. l I can give good references as to my character, social standing, etc.
 H. e. K.
 Answer: As l have stated before, this column is not matrimonial clearing house. No introductions will be made through it. No letters will be forwarded, as it is useless for the eleven million middle aged widows and spinsters, who are simply pining to cheer up. just such lone some widowers as IT. C. k. is, to send me their addresses. But isn't it pitiful that the men and women who would like to meet each other so seldom do meet? And worse still that nobody knows how ito devise any way by which the right people can become acquainted with each other
 The case of the lonesome man, how ever, is not so tragic as that of the l lonesome woman, for the man can go out and hunt up his affinity, while all that the woman can do is to sit at l home, with her fingers crossed for l luck, and hope and pray that her soul mate will come by and happen to mo- Etice her. And after she is past youth E this miracle doesn't happen more than Eonee in blue moon, for. naturally boys are not attracted to her, and las a general thing, by. the time man lis 50 his taste runs to flappers. I think you are very wise, Lone- some widower. to marry again, for the elderly need companionship far more than the young do, and there IS nothing under the sun more pathetic than a poor old man with no woman to nurse and comfort and coddle him and see that he has what he likes to eat, and that his coat collar IS brushed off. An old woman can find for herself better than an old man can.
 | Also, you are wise to think of mar rying in your own age class, and | getting a wife who will be interested in the same things that you are, and will be willing to nurse rheumatic bones by the radiator instead of shaking them in the jazz resorts. | Nor should there be any difficulty lin finding such a woman. The woods are full of them, and the chances are | that you have overlooked some good matrimonial bets that are right under | your own nose. What about some ! quiet, sweet-faced little woman who l is doing the Cinderella act in her l brothers or sisters family. and who would look upon you as fairy prince | if you rescued her from being an un- paid drudge and put ner in home oi | her own?
 l What about some energetic busi- l ness woman, perhaps in your own office, who has been embro.derine | towels for 20 years for hope chest for which she had no. use, and who would spoil a husband to death? | What about some lonesome widow neiehbor whose children are all mar ried and gone, and who would like to have some man belonging to her again?
 | Oh, you can find 'em on every block, and if you don't happen to know the lady you fancy. hunt up somebody to introduce you. Middle aged women are not debutantes. Nor lare they man-shy. And not many of them say mo" to 8 proposal. And remember this--marrying is like buy | ing stocks. Q It's safest to stick to bill real wide, "step inside and we will fool Mister Crookelookie and Humpylumpy!" So the two Raggedys stepped inside the Pelican's large bill and sat downt"
 4 E g"Did you see Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy pass here?" Crooke- 1 lcokie asked the Pelican. The Peli- can closed one eye and shook his head.
 "Nopew he said without opening his bill, they haven't passed beyond here So Crookelookie and his brother turned and ran back through | the woods.
 
 Then. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy showed the Pelican to the ice cream soda tree and they all sat down and drank leventeen sodas be- cause the magical soda water was so