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Show IN THE FUTURE. When the Girl Who Earns 85,000 a Year Will Be a Desirable Wife. "Don't you think it about time for Mabel to consider the subject of matrimony?" matri-mony?" he asked hesitatingly. "Oh, there is plenty of time, " replied his wife. "Mabel is very ambitious, you know, and she is used to certain so called luxuries that she would dislike to give up." "Well, frankly, I think she is working work-ing too hard. " "Oh, no, she isn't. It will do her good. And since she won that case in the supreme court her income has been Bteadily increasing. If she continues to do as well in her profession, she may be able to think of marriage in a year or so. You see, things have changed since we were married." "Indeed they have, " he sighed. "Then a girl's beauty, temperament and accomplishments had more to do with her matrimonial chances, but it ia very different now, very different indeed. in-deed. Mabel is not yet the prize that I wish her to be. and I doubt if she could be sure of getting the kind of husband that I desire her to have. The best young men are very particular, you know." "Very true," he admitted. "Many of them will hardly look at a girl whose earning capacity is not $4,-000 $4,-000 or $5,000 a year. Mabel agrees with me that it is best to wait until she has reached that point, and then she is sure to be sought after by the very best and most desirable young men in the : city." Chicago Post. |
