| Show ix iatt talks By DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1321 1921 by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc FIRST AID TO MATRIMONY MATRIMONY Everyone Everon who has lived in a large larg-e city knows that one of ol the biggest needs In it Is a clearing house for and romance romance Some place where nice respectable boys and girls may meet each other and have a good Innocent time together and perhaps fall In love with each other and get married and anel know all aU the time that everything is all right because they have been 0 O. Kd by th the roof under which they have been Introduced At present there is no such place I Young people who go as strangers to a city almost perish of loneliness during the first few tew months in which they arc are aliens in an alien allen land Then they t picking up acquaintances on n the street at atthe atthe the places where they work at boardinghouses boardinghouses boarding boardinghouses houses and cheap restaurants restaurant and sad the result is tragedy In innumerable cases MAN TO MAID Yet youth calls to youth and man to tc I maid Every young joung chap must have hi his I girl and every girl must have her man and they must play together and have natural normal fun I get hundreds of ol letters a year jear ear from young men asking me how how- they may meet nice girls in the cities in which they live girls like the sort they knew back home and even more letters from girls wanting to Know how they may get to know worthy young men of ot the type who used to take them aroun around to parties and to picture shows at dunk or Bird Center And I have had to to- answer that 1 I dont don't know mow and to beware of the vamp with the rolling eye and the smiling youth who says s Excuse me mi miss s but didn't I see you OU last week at the ball at the Van Van- torla toria a I see my mistake now but you ou are so exactly exact like e that girl who was the most beautiful creature I ever saw that my error was perfectly natural etc etc SOCIAL CENTERS A prophet however has arisen In Israel who has a plan for solving this great problem He Hc lIves ilves in New Orleans and has las a bill now before the Louisiana legIslature leg leg- slature in which communities of two thousand housand and over are authorized to es establish es- es social centers at which young people people peo peo- pie may meet and mate under the chaperonage chaper chaper- chaperonage of ot the law r P L t I I According to his plan men and women who wish companionship will go 10 to the nearest matrimonial station and register Their records will be thoroughly investigated investigated g gated ted and if they are clean the matron in charge will introduce them to a circle of other certified individuals I O Of course it is then up to the man and I woman to find acquaintances or perhaps the one particular Him or j I Her That Is as may be Cupid is a 1 i I I busy youngster and maKes males strange selections selections I I but the point is that here he is given a working basis and whomever he lie I picks out is more or less a a. guaranteed article I FIRST FIRST AID The rhe author of ot this romantic bill l is so I far enamored of wedding bells that he would have the state subsidize matrimony matri- matri mon mony That is going it a bit thick as the English say but there is no doubt I but that it would be a good thing I could be some proper place Illace established in every city where young joung people who have I no homes no-homes hom homes s 's and no facilities for getting gettIng ac acquaInted acquainted acquainted ac- ac I could meet under the eye eye of of a aj I worldly wise and lenient Mrs Grundy I I i I I I Just how this first aid to matrimony is to be conducted has not been made pub pub- lic lie Undoubtedly Its questionnaire will be searching and all who enroll at it will have to tell their age ge their past history the amount and source of their incomes the Kind of oc disposition they have ha and what are their ge general ral matrimonial quail r t o r I This should enable those who are seekIng seek seek- ing for tor life partners to make much more Intelligent selections than are possible to toI those who get their husbands and wives J out of the matrimonial so to toI I speak MARITAL LEMONS Tho thin that does more than any any- anything thIn thing else to make male marriage a failure IsI is the tile discover after you get home and settie settle settle set set- I tle tie down to real life that you OU bought a pig in a poke as It were and that th the theman theman man or woman to whom you jou have tie tieI tied I yourself for life isn't any more the Individual Indi indI- indIvidual vidual you thought you were marrying II than if It he or she was some entire stranger strange whom you had never set eyes on before Thus It very often oCten happens that a a- a girlIs girl is so misled by the rich presents an anthe anti and the money that a man lavishes on he her during d the days of courtship that sh she I think she is marrying a millionaire only to find out after aCter marriage that he has ha scarcely a shoestring of a salary or a aman man marries a girl under the full belief belle he is acquiring a blue ribbon cook I who dotes on a gas range to ascertain to his desT air that her mother made th the angel food and that ho is doomed to g go through life the victim of dyspepsia dj ia brought on by his wife's biscuits Of course all these little mistakes mistake be obviated by a a. man and woman being able to look over each others other's record rec rec- ord They would have each others other's number number number num num- ber to begin with without having to correct a false guess when It was too I late DREAM WOMEN I Each of rs IS cherishes in our fancy our ourI Ideal of the kind of a wife or husband I we would like to have Every man knows every characteristic of his dream woman I Every woman Knows every taste and little lit lit- tic tle quirk of thought of the hero of her but we seldom marry those with whom we would be two souls with but a single thought two hearts that beat as one because we do not know how how to to find them The he matrimonial center would find them for us We Ve would only have to Jook look over their list of to discover the e man or woman who agreed r d with th us liti p tha d on everything from politics to pie a anc and then tie U up with him or her for life Propinquity Is the great reat matchmaker Perhaps all that youve you've got to do Is to tc bring men and women together anc and nature will do the rest but any way you ou look at it the Idea of having someplace some someplace someplace place where young people can meet each other in the right Wa way is a good one It should do much not only to promote marriage but to stop divorce |
