Evening star., 1936-07-23

- Is so. have known him all
my life and loved him from the time
I was a small child and have always
said that when I was grown I would
marry him I have been going around
with him to places ever since I was
l6 and he has always been good to
me. We have talked over marriage
and both our families agree to it, but
he Is afraid that I an too young and
that when I am older I may find
younger man and be sorry for having
married him. But that will not hap
pen because he fills my heart as no
boy does. When love is this strong
and has lasted so long, don't you
think we can make go of it?
VENITA.
Answer.-Ordinarily I should say
that a gap of Al years between hus-
band and wife is too much even for
love to span, and that there is small
chance of happiness for either one in
such an unequal marriage.
RUT your case is such a very Pc
~ culiar one that the general objec-
tions to a May-and-December we'd
ding do not seem as valid as they are
in most cases. Your love for this man
so much your senior seems an obseS-
sion. For a little child to have fallen
in love with a man older than her
father and for this love to have grown
1ar 1rth hor1nd
with her strength, and for her never
to have faltered in her determination
to marry him is an almost uncanny
romance. 1t is as if it we're something
predestined, something settled by
Fate, and with that one dares not
NEEDLE.
Evidently you are an old soul, as
our theosophical friends would say, or
else your youth would call to you in
stead of age. So, perhaps, your cal
endar age does not matter.
THE danger of an old man marry
ing a young girl is very real be-
cause, as a general thing, they not
only have nothing in common but
their point of view is anta gonistic,
and this was never more the case
than now, when all the traditions,
habits, morals and manners by which
the older generation was reared have
gone into the discard and new ones
substituted by the youngsters of today.
In your fiance's youth women wore
bustles and a dozen petticoats and it
was forward for a girl to show her
ankles. Now girls wear shorts. Then
no lady smoked, nor drank more than
a glass of wine Now they are human
smockstacks and boast of the number
Of cocktails they can carry.
Then no girl worked outside Of her
home, or walked the streets unat-
tended at night Now nearly every girl
has a job and girls roam the world
alone. Then the admired girl was
sweet and gentle and innocent. Now
she poses as sophisticated. And so on
and on.
OO IL Is easy 10 SEE WHY girl Ol
10 and man of 60 may find it hard
to adjust themselves to each other.
Nothing but a great and miraculous
love can do it. DOROTHY DIX.
DEAR MISS DIX: You tell the men
that they should be affectionate
to their wives. Wha. about wives
being affectionate to their husbands?
Especially to husbands on the farm,
who are continually worried with
jumping stock, broken fences, lazy
hands, ETC.? A worried man does not
think to be as afectionate as he
should, so don't you think his wife
should meet him with a smile and
loving words and help him forget his
worries? He would be more in love
with her if she would do her part of
the love-making, instead of being so
silent and hard with him. Also, don't
you think that when husband and
wife are separated that they should
settle their differences alone without
other people interfering?
A READER.