Evening star., 1932-11-06


Ask woman of . generation two ago
what her ideal of the perfect husband was and
that OF all the girls she knew and whether she
married him not. think she would reply
without hesitation, I'VE wanted him to be rich,
young and handsome" If not Handsome rich
and young
AANY a Beau Ideal who married his lady
iVi love with those assets lived to prove that
they were the only assets he had
There seems to be a decided swing away
from the Apollo type of man-not precisely
away from him exactly, but it simply does not
matter SO much to q girl what he looks like if
he has those qualities she can admire and love
Todays girls are not yesterdays girls They
have values that the girls of 1900 never
dreamed Of
They do not mind a bad nose il the head
behind it is intelligent Thin hair matters not
at all il it covers an alert mind Eyes may be
any color they wish If they express understand
ing. courage, tolerance and sympathy. Six feet
Of height is q noble attainment but it is not al
ways the tallest who goes farthest in the race.
That the ideal husband must have breeding
deserves a paragraph of its own.
So it looks as though maidens of today have
decided ideals about their husbands ideals that
would have amazed the girls of the '90s who
probably would not have called them ideals at
all
Even today there are skeptics. but mostly
dHiUiB Tile Incfl- Inc OtQeT Gay q DaChetOr
made this remark: oh girl usually marres
any one who asks her. suppose most of them
don't have more than one two proposals in q
lifetime"
To which replied "You are old-fashioned
Girls today do about half the proposing them
selves.
Moreover. they don't string man along as
they used to until he comes to the point-just
SO they can turn him down. That was pas
time Of the last century, to boast of how many
strings you had to your bow, or rather how
many beaux you had to your string
Moreover, proposals have blossomed into
many hybrid varieties. will you be mine?' is
dead and gone. One day the chap. deeply in
love with his girl. who has known it all along,
says something quite casually, something about
Some day when you and are married, kid
and that's all there is to it.
when girls are not interested they show it.
When they are they show it. too. Madenly
shyness and that old gag about it all being sud
den never fooled anybody anyhow
Then you think the man is picked and-er
literally proposed to?" he asked.
Il do" And I knew what was talking
about, because more than one man has con-
fessed in my hearing that he was not married
because he had never been picked.
co the questions of ideals is not as foolish
- as it sounds. If girls are going to pick Just
such -and-such men, it is up to swains to think
about it. Besides. since girls are getting more
and more sensible-no. let us say astute-in
looking for certain qualities In man, is it not
more encouraging to prospective husbands to
know that the standard is within their reach?
Only God can make . man handsome. They
say that only the devil can make him rich. But
his virtues, his personality. his ambition and
general squareness are matters he can attend
to himself.
Perhaps some explanation is due Of this view
Of the money question. I believe that girls
as . whole are not far enough past the recent
mercenary debauch that warped an of us 10