Show IMPROVING ON LOVE i iBy D By an English Lady LillI Nothing in lifo life is half as sweet as loves love's young dream Very true entirely true but true but what wh is tho good of a sweet sweet sweet- dream Iram followed follow by bya byn a n bitter awakening aa as is often the case cne when hen cupid alone maJla manages el cs the business 1 Take for or instance Ince the the barrister who feels so enraptured on IJ by the blue eves es eyes and left left cheek dinillo of a n debt riden colonels colonel's daughter that relying on briefs hrip that Pia may come and on a n young uncle who ho may not have o an m heir h ho he begs s I 1 Clarice Clarice Shott to beet become mo Mrs Wigg She does doeR so thoy so-thoy they aro arc full of happiness happiness- I th the briefs brief 1 dont don't nt Como come they are arc anxious ious ious tho tho blue eyes grow row dull tears are aro responsible for tor this this tho tho young YUlI undo is blessed with an nn heir lust just about the same Fame time tune ns as Baby Daby Wi Wigg arr arrives cs how is Baby Daby Wi Wigg to go to Eton Eaton and Oxford later on when funds arc are low and briefs absent tho absent tho 1 tho dimple disappears disappears dis appears cheeks checks thinned by worry orr cant can't sport snort dimples the dimples the rapture is over o anti and tho marria marriage e is is i more foro or less of a fail ure urea But Dut if it Wigg had married that jolly little daughter of or John of l S so solicitors solicitors o- o what a different m matter it might have Leon been eon Papa in law in-law law would have put briefs in his son son-in son laws laws law's s 's way ww and the little daughter would have ha remained j jolly lly because shed she'd a know quite well that with daddys add s influence Once ence and Alista ros ro's cleverness small email Al Alistair John Norman Wi Wigg r would be bo able to enjoy enjo a first rate first rate start in life At the tho moment of or writing a dozen cases of most t successful marria marriages es which have e been based to a certain o extent ox- ox tent on business footings s recur to m mv my mind There is is a young composer who has chosen for his bis bride a young singer and the mutual d advantages Pl es of this arrangement arrangement ar ar- ar- ar are arc being evidenced c e Cr every day dw when he ho writes writeR songs IOns which exactly suit her stI style and ani site he gives i es the tho same sarno songs longs prominence by hy singing them then There Thero is a doctor w no has married tho pretty prett sister of an analyst any amount of mutual benefit accrues from this COH connection ct on a writer rit r who has haA taken taken taken tak tak- en for his bride a a. publishers publisher's daughter a girl artist who has hns h been en led to the altar by hy the son of a famous firm of on on- gravers and gravers and other instances too numerous numerous numer numer- ous to mention including the tho most re rp recent recent re- re cent alliance between the son and dau daughter of t two o great creat organists How ow sordid How ore unromantic How h hideously deou ly practical be bc the cry of young oung people who are ne so 50 full of livings living's livin liv lh in ing's ings fiat s 's joy jO that the future seems merely a flat r remote possibility tl to b be grappled with later on much on-much much much later on I But those young people must remember that the present merges into tho the future before puffed sleeves slee and baggy g trousers trous trous- ers era can come into fashion again and the future of nf marriage without some ome substantial basis is a poo Yet in the minds of careful thinkers think think- ers and careful observers there thero can exist ex ex- no doubt as to the fact that alliances formed upon business lines are usually most satisfactory arran arrangements therefore therefore there there- fore y the youth and maidens who ho carefully care care- fuU fully consider der this of view cons point before a saying I 1 will are wise to their gen oration Shakespeare who is responsible responsible sible for many sensible observations remarks that Every man hath business business busi busi- ness and desires Ther Therefore fore when when- over o possible lot en c every even ones one's marriage marri coincide with th this instinct And cupid wont won't mind mind mind-he he is far more amenable and read ready reads to fall in with judicious ju ju- arrangements than romantic people peo peo- pIe at all aJl ima imagine ne |