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Show i LOVE IN A COTTAGE HI If tho mtirrlago rate Is low, tho I 4 scramble for licenses nt tho Ford y works In Detroit tolls ono reason II t why. When tho profit sharing flj scheme was announced, sovcnty-flvo H employes reported marrlago engage- ml ments. Others aro coming. H Lovo In a cottage, still exists. The- IS cretlcally It Is Ideal tind poetic. In ' Mrs. nurnetfs latest story, T. Tcm- lQ barom, overjhody admires Tom and lIJ Little Ann for their longing for tho ,jjj Harlem flat on 15 per. But tho nv- jn crago reader of pollto fiction would secretly commUerato them, had not VX good fortuno averted tbtit fa to. nifl Thllosophors Bay thero is too much If4l Keeping up with I.lzzlo. Delayed 5m marriages Is attributed to tho feel- EmWjIbV lnB th5t a J'oune couV'o must start Hbv ibtbbbm where their fathers left off. They .must swap social favors and buy a minimum of stylo, nil which costs a good lot of money. Still an ambitious young man hates to take a family of children Into a neighborhood of non-English speaking people, which In many growing towm proves tho only quarters for which ho has tho price. Tho liking for emulation emu-lation of style is meretricious but the desire to consort with refined nnd educated people Is pralsoworth. It sometimes coata money to butt your, back yard up against people with whom you can swap poetical quotations. quota-tions. Thero does aoem to be a doolloo in thrifty fore thought In money matters. mat-ters. Old time housekeepers wore wonderful planners. Kvcry expense was thought ahead. They nover woto their' Sunday best when tho knock-about knock-about would do as well. In tho attic at-tic were reserves against many houso hold needs. Nowhdays pepplo buy what' they need when they need It. nnd some of them do not evon wait for the bargain sales. All which has a vital relation to tho marrlago ra:o |