Show YOUNG HUSBANDS TROUBLE TROUBLESOME TROUBLESOME TROUBLESOME SOME Dorothy Dix In l Chicago caSo American The mania among literary women for marrying men younger than themselves that at first was thought to be merely a freak appears appam to be becoming a con confirmed confirmed firmed habit Lady Randolph Churchill Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mrs Langtry Lantry have done it Miss ViI Vil kins and Mrs Cruger Cruder threaten to do doit doft doIt it ft Strictly speaking it is of o course course a personal peculiarity A woman of 40 and over may be presumed to know her own mind If she elects ejects to marry a bo boy and raise up a husband in the th way wa sue wants w him to go it is her er own I affair Granting the right of every everyone one to in indulge Indulge her own taste In matrimony no matter how bizarre still a woman wedding a man much her junior is al always always always ways a spectacle of such rash and reckless daring it Is bound to the th attention of the thoughtful To begin with it is much easier as every woman knows knous to catch a hus husband husband husband band than it is to hold him after you get got him There are animals you can never neer be he sure you ou have thoroughly do domesticated domesticated domesticated until after they are dead Men belong to this genus Besides there are few games gaines that are continuously exciting Even the woman who holds the trump cards of youth and beauty does not always win out What then must bethe be bethe bethe the difficulties of the situation when H with ith the clear second sec dd sight that t comes after marriage the youthful bride bridegroom brIdegroom bridegroom groom perceives that he ha let him himself self seif in for an existence with no Do more mare thrills thi Hs to it than playing cribbage with his mother Then there is the burden of perpetual youth which the woman must assume The privilege of growing old with all ts perquisites is one we do not suf cut sufficiently fici appreciate From this blessing the nature woman w with ith a young hus hue husband band is forever debarred She must al ai always always ways be engaged in a frantic effort to tobe tobe be young oung or if she cant be young to tobe tobe be as young as she can Every Ever new I wrinkle is a calamity every gray hair haira a catastrophe every additional inch of belt measure Is isa a tragedy She can never hope to enjoy that lux luxurious luxuriOus luxurious urious Indian Summer of life when a I woman lets Jets out her stays smashes her peroxide bottles pitches her rouge pot potin potin potin in the fire and abandons herself to be being being being ing frankly middle aged and no better looking than God made her herFor herFor herFor For her romance the elderly bride is condemned to be a feminine Ponce de deLeon deI deLeon I Leon forever searching for or the foun fountain fountain tain tam of eternal youth Her IIer path leads le da daby by way of the the the complexion specialist and the mas mac What she endures at their hands hand will iII never be told Men have been Men martyred and canonized as saints mints for less sufferings less heroically her en endured endured dured durad The young husband must also be b amused amuse l There is the awful alternative of turning him over to the tender mercy mere of ot a pretty girl of his own age or oi or orthe the elderly wife treading the measure of his amusements with him Alas 40 we are no DO longer so young as we were were We Ve take the same interest In views from front high points that we did when we e had less avoirdupois and more breath We Ve see more rheumatism than romance in foggy fo gy nights on the water We Ve begin to realize that the Oriental know kno when they are about when th hire other people to do their dancing for th them m Dare she ahe give in to her natural yearn yearnings yearnIngs ings fur for a comfortable rocking chaix chah and the forty fort winks to which her agE ag entitles entitIes her ber Never She must trip thE th despite twinges of incipient gout sout She must be gay giddy ant cJ girlish at itt whatever cost She must kei him Man interested and amused and raining youth is the hardest and l s1 s remunerative work ever undertaken bj b ba ba a iIO sober adult of sound mind None of us is insensible to the charma of ot youth It is perhaps only natura that a lady novelist who has spen many man years depicting heroes who wort wor young handsome and gallant at last desire to possess a real UVE specimen herself h we admin ll the intrepid it We un nu bul bb L i deplore the judgment t tua ho hei to usury rr him A young husband I worth the trouble le h O ts |