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Show AN UNFAIR TRIAL. There was small romance about the marriage of a couple at Elsah, 111. Ne was 53, she thirty. They realized that marriage Avas a practical affair in which beefsteak and pie figured. So he agreed to live at her mother's house three days. At the end of that period, provided she swept the carpet clean, cooked well, made good coffee, and was kind to her mother, he was to propose If he had acceptable accept-able table manners, Avipcd his feet on the veranda mat, and refrained from smoking into the curtains, she was to say "yes." Had she elected to say "no'," probably he would have paid board for the period. Such were the apparent terms of the compact, says the Los Angeles Tribune. It was hardly a fair trial or a wise agreement. A woman of 30 might be a fine cook and yet possess faults that would not be revealed re-vealed in a test of three days. While, concededly, the way to reach a man's heart is through his stomach, a man of brains would refuse to regard himself as dominated by his appetite, or to measure his affections by artistry of his morning flapjacks. As a man, even though a boor, could put up a passingly good front while his qualifications quali-fications for a life job were being weighed. They called their experience a "trial courtship." In this respect re-spect it was like any other courtship, each party trying to find out the truth about the other. It was different in the respect that it left to the man no avenue of escape. The woman knew the quality of her cooking or she never would have consented to the plan. |