Gunnison Valley News | 1921-06-17 | Page 5 | Men Dodge Age Proposition

Men Dodge Age Proposition. Service of women citizens on the r"g-islration r"g-islration boards leads to Interest )g personal revelations about Hi Ir neighbors. A man who holds a position In tho city government had always given Ills-real Ills-real age, now 4S, before women sat 011 the boards. When his wife went In to register for the first time one of (he women on the board said to her: , "Oh, Mrs. Blank, isn't your husband an old codger?" "Why, no," said Mrs. Blank, "I don't think 41 is so very old." "But ho registered as 47." Silence fell and Mrs. Blank entered the booth to fill out her enrollment ballot. bal-lot. Next year, when the husband entered en-tered the registration place and was asked by a man on the board his age, ho replied, "42." 1 The woman whose undue Interest' had evidently caused a family Bible meeting looked at him and her look said volumes. But ho stared Iter down, and so the record stands. New I York Evening I'osf.