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Show GOING TO WED? SURE! "Gobs" Merely Waiting to Be Mustered Out. Tired of Being Single and Now Want to Marry and Settle Down, Quantico, Va. American maidens who have been worrying whether your marines would pop the question when they ci.nie home, stand "at ease." A canvass of marine barracks here n.t Quantico. where 10.000 men huve ; been waiting their chance at the IIuntj made by a reporter for Leatherneck, the camp paper, shows that 00 per cent of the sincMe men Intend marrying marry-ing when they are discharged. How's that for good news? "We're tired of being single. We unlit to marry and settle down," Is ; file consensus of the replies. These marines, many f whom will :e discharged when the president do- clares the national emergency no longer long-er exists, are fitting themselves for goml jobs that will permit them to wed. Evening business classes are being be-ing held at the Y. M. C. A., and experts ex-perts are explaining everything from bookkeeping and shorthand to soil cultivation and dairying. The training the men have undergone under-gone admirably fits them for marriage. mar-riage. There isn't a marine in the service who doesn't claim to be able to wash his clothes whiter than any woman can ever get them. Every man can mend and press his own clothes. And as far as being "handy about the house," why, most of tliem can open a can of tomatoes with a toothpick and drive a nail with . a feather duster. |