Show A AA 1 r Is THIRTY T HIRTY t the L ove I s I v-e v r Deadline r T T T T T Jamr J. J Mont Montague Montagu ue was born In Mason City S but soon lOOn migrated to Oregon Ian Walk Wills be worked on the Morning fin Oregonian Arthur yur tha Brisbane saw some lome of his editorials and fade overtures Q which resulted In hn Mr Mon Mon- ill wires wire's com coming in to New York That was wal the inning jg of seventeen year yean in the service of oftie 4 the tie H Meant Heart r t organization during which period j I j tague was managing editor of the New Newyork Newyork 1 york Evening Journal wrote a daily verse and taj does dOt under a heading he himself 4 td J More Moro Truth Than P Poetry try He covered aD H the tb big bir stories winding up with the peace It to conference When Jimmy resigned resign Id I'd from tho the d. d He nt organization he be became associated with i s newspaper syndicate In addition to this be b. for tor the Sunday papers a weekly humor humor- oci cos tory story and aDd In his spare time turns tunu out a ta 3 d July daily He fits fiill in by producing ap an a p magazine story Mr Montague Iser is tr O er thirty and Is married 11 It t By JAMES J. J MONT MONTAGUE AGUE L Il Thackeray accounted for Cor a famous r r British generals general's popularity with worn wom women I en fo by explaining that he allowed them to give him money There Is no dee dea devotion de de- de e a ration comparable with that which Is engendered by the bestowing of favors ors I have hafe known elderly theatrical theat t managers to bankrupt t themselves es trying vainly to make stars out of their wives hes And the more money they lost the more ardent became r their affection for the pretty little dumbbells dumb dumb- bells who never could learn to do anything but stand still and ond look look- beautiful If love lore means unselfish devotion devotIon- and It ought to men to-men men who ore are past thirty are more capable of possessing it titan men un under er thirty And their capacity Increases reach preach as ns they ma- ma years which which years often are ore years of Indiscretion The youthful hus hug band thinks a n good deal about him him- self felt When his t passions once have ha lost their brutal force as os Tennyson said Bald In a mean poem he be wrote about shoat a girl who refused him he begins to wonder what kind of a 0 break he I is getting betting out of ot wed wedded ed life He locks Jock out of the window oftener than nn on older older- r- r man Anne 10 a Ho tan n r L. L nn UH of ot the girls he might have ha had and ond is prone to Imagine that they wouldn't have bate taken him ns as a n matter of ot course so early In the game and scolded ed him for leaving lea cigarette ashes around tie the house and spen spending so much time on the golf golt course After Afler that he begins to feel sorry for tor himself and the fine e edge ge of ot the i romance is over o But there Is something somethIng some some- something thing almost maternal In the affection of ot a man of more advanced ad years and aDd there Is no greater love loe than mother love loyc Lie Ue Is transported to that this lovely 10 creature creature even even though she were a 0 spinster of ot thirty or more when he married her her has has really consented to let him give gl her hr towers flowers and take her to the theater and sit patiently around shops while whiTe she tries on costumes He lie thinks up little surprises to delight de de- light her lie gets out of the weekly poker event and actually takes her around the golf course with him every ry day I have hn yet et to see n a young man doing that more than a 0 couple of Unes in a year ear Most young men are fairly swollen with conceit If before attaining thirty they hey have hare accumulated enough money to support a n wife wICe In reasonable reason reason- able ibe comfort Such a n man wants her ber herto to 10 listen and understand him when he be brings home the figures on the balance sheet and tells her how the advice he gave ga the sales manager t i resulted In a record business for the year fear lie Ile expects experts that she will be thrilled with all nil the shop talk which U te can get no one else to listen to find End that she will even eyen remain attentive at nt- when he reIn relates les the struggles of his early youth And when she yawns through his r conversation suggests going out to the theater or the movies rno he tie begins to 10 think that he Is not riot appreciated and she is no longer as or oras oras oras as Intelligent In his Ills e eyes es as sh she was In Inthe Inthe the days of the courtship He Ile Ie may get Set used to 10 her hr after that and mid regard her with a n sort of desperate tolerance but Lut It II would be hI somewhat Inaccurate to 10 term that thaI sort 0 of feeling love The wan word dote means to in love lo and the Ibe word dotard means menus nn on old gentleman Perhaps there thre Is some same etymological connection between them An Anyway men who get ger married after afler thirty while the th they are far fur more easily sll the victims of female fortune hunters ire fire fur less likely to 0 tr try to out of the lie trap and far apt to 10 glory In their fetters rs there Is u a break It Is usually I due doe oe to the Ind lady for fur she site Is II al always s 's I romantic and sel seldom om eau cnn help hemp regret regret- ling g that she dl didn't nt meet John Jolln Harry Harry- I more Dore a n little earlier About women I tan am BJ not so sure sure- Nobody 1 Is Is or e ever er r bas kat been Yet Yel I 1 know of of n a number cf tit them who hu e married after r thirty and who still sUB believe helle that litte lit lit- tI tie te U ugly ly husbands s have hn the pla physical attractiveness of a n movie star the he lh of Gene Tunney nn and the I Mentality of nil all the worlds world's greatest I lInk I I r rolled foiled ed Into Into o one It Is the time maternal InIn In In- tUrret In them that makes them loveT love lo T the ruen men they married And men born of women Inherit maternal Instincts too That Is what makes them ar- ar Cent lovers after thirty provided they marry marry girls who do not try to boss hem but Lut ut continue to be clinging ti vines E nr be It ll from rue Ine to enter Into nn an academic argument with such a n schol- schol tely gentleman eman and ond profound thinker a nd ad observer as ns Mr Will hill Durant DuranL In default W of ot equipment all I can say Bay Is tit at 1 believe belle he Is wrong Ii A 11 IHS by 07 ih the B. 11 Syndicate Inc no a |