Show aggie Hobson ison Favors r Proposals By Girls Girl s a a Y I m Fewer ewer Failures Where Fair Sex Woos oos SCENE S from Hobsons Hobson's Choice farce comedy which comes cones to the Salt Lake theatre next Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and to which The Telegram will give seats to the writers I on Why II Shouldn't Women Propose II D ti O i z 6 s s 1 L I p k kt 11 t s f t ts R s r rr r s I a f t tI I p I y V a SCENE N O C OICE By Ely y DOLLY DALE Why shouldn't women propose Why dont don't Y you you U do do the he asking girls Since the dim ages of antiquity women women wo wo- wo I men have had It it bred into them that they must sit with folded hands until the right man man comes along For years it was considered a a disgrace dis disgrace dis- dis grace to be a spinster The woman who was fastidious us enough to wait walt forthe for lor the man man she really could love and who never met that man man was popularly supposed to be a girl whom all men had refused Consequently thousands of women accepted the first man who asked them for fear of ot being called old maids Hobsons Choice the delightful farce comedy which comes coines comes to the Salt Lake theatre next Monday Tuesday and Wednesday deals with the leap year idea of women proposing The I heroine gets the man of her choice and the result is happiness and prosperity prosperity prosperity pros pros- for both of ot them The coming of Hobsons Choice and the discussions that it is sure to bring about coupled with the fact that 1916 Is leap year have suggested to The Telegram the idea of finding out exactly what its readers readers' think about the propriety of lassie asking laddie Accordingly it solicits short hort essays on the subject such articles not to exceed words in length And it has purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased a box as first prize and twelve pairs of ot orchestra seats seat to Hobsons Choice at the Sal Salt Lake theatre which will be given to those who In The Telegrams Telegram's opinion have sent in the b best st and cleverest answers to the question question ques ques- question tion Why WAY shouldn't women propose The answers should be sent immediately immediately immediately immedi immedi- for some of the best of ot them willbe will willbe be printed in The Telegram The contest contest contest con con- test will close Friday at 12 o'clock noon and articles received after that time cannot be considered in the contest The winners will be announced on the following Sunday Viola Roach the noted English actress actress actress ac ac- tress who is the they leading woman woman In Hobsons Hobson's and who does the proposing in the play has some convictions convictions convictions con con- of her own on the subject There is no reason why men should have a monopoly on proposing she said Many men are as timid as women in matters of the heart especially especially especially espe espe- in these days of the advanced woman A man may meet an attractive girl well poised and self-possessed self earning her own living and independent ent in every way a and while she may show a preference for him he may i fear to risk a valued friendship if he received a negative answer when he popped the question And while the girl in the case might want the man in the case to propose according to the etiquette of the she day cannot sug- sug gest it without the fear of being called forward In such a question these two persons persons persons per per- sons through mutual timidity fail to arrive at a successful marriage Women should feel thankful that tradition Is being overthrown in the matter pf f proposals A woman should be advanced enough in this day to propose or rather suggest a possible marriage to a man when she feels that in marriage lies the happiness happiness' of bothof both bothof of ot them I think there would 9 be fewer failures s if the job of proposing should be left in womans woman's hands Why shouldn't women propose propose Right now is the time to start You wont won't have Leap year for some time so so get busy girls girls' |