The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27
Millionaire A: Husband May
 Be Ideal
By Bettie Vincent

by bettie vincent
 IT must be thrilling for a girl to
 camly announce "I'm going to marry
 millionaire She need not add "He's tall, dark and handsome" "He looks like all the sheiks in the movies" or He has the disposition of an angel. The fact that she says "millionaire' is enough. After that it dosen't matter whether he is seventy-five, portly, bald headed or wears number twelve shoe.
 And it's quite possible for girl to marry "a millionaire husband" in this modern age. This is an age where girls get out and meet millionaires in offices, at the country golf club and in every walk of life. Matchmaking mothers conniving aunts no longer have to give Sunday-night suppers and take expen- sive trips to let Madge or May or Lilly meet ian eligible man." The girls go out to business now and meet them every day.
 But the only way to marry mil lionaire husband and find happiness is to be certain you love him. Marrying for money is delightful thing if you find love too. But marrying for money alone will never bring the happiness and the true companionship and love that every wife seeks. And in this modern age of ours, where girls and men are on an equality in the financial world, the thoughtful girl will think twice before she considers the million aire worthy suitor simply because of his millions.
 In the first place the girl who mar ries millionaire or even a very wealthy man must remember that the moneyed man can usually be put down in one of two classes, the tightwad or the spend thrift. And the reason of this, is either a man has had to save and pinch in his youth and that makes him natur- ally stingy, or else he has inherited his money and acquires that "come easy go easy" attitude.
 Frequently the little girl who mar ries her girlhood beau and furnishes her first apartment from the and 10 cent stores has more ready money and more leeway than the girl who marries for money. The girl who marries a man for his money naturally thinks she is entitled to spend it, and when she finds her tightwad husband beings to draw the lines she soon discovers that she has neither love nor money. On the other hand, the spendthrift husband will prob ably be just as generous with his money to other girls and keep his little wife constantly in a worried state.
 The old story of love in a cottage still holds true today. Love is the one thing that binds a man and woman together and which takes them over all the rough tides and allows them to glide safely and serenly on to good fortune.
 This is an age of efficiency, an age of the budget system, an age when both the mans and the girls salaries are at their peak and when love may make its choice regardless of once- coveted millions. Today girls go to busi- ness first, they become expert in their own lines and hold the safest and best security against poverty and the wolf knocking at the door. If love comes it must be real.
 There are still many girls who long for millionaire husbands and believe that nothing counts but a mans pocket book, but the majority of girls who go to business and earn their own way are looking for unadulterated romance, for love and the man who sees life from the same angle that they do because they know that, after all, companion ship and a kindred spirit are all that count in the long matrimonial run.