Show 1 y R DOROTHY DEC tb the Worlds World raIl raid Woman Writ THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS TO CATCH A WARY OLD BACHELOR PLAY UP THE HOME STUFF WITH A LOUD PEDAL OR GO 00 AWAY HE WILL THEN DiscoveR THAT YOUR SOCIETY IS 18 A HABIT AND WILL V MARRY YOU RATHER THAN BREAK BRAI IT ITA ITA A WOMAN Writ writes s me m that she sho ho Is In love with on an fl old bachelor and n A silo she wants to know bow how to Inveigle him bim into the th matrimonial fold fol Alas I fer f ar that I 1 can offer the lady no n pOInters worth considering on en th the difficult tack she h has und undertaken n When a o woman captures an old bachelor and lad leads him to Miti the tho altar It Is II I a matter mattor matt r 0 of luck and md not j of f skill If It be b true tru that matches matche are made in n heaven n It Is I because became her guardian sa angel has ha been working overtime and not nt j because of the th adroitness with which she ahe sh r has hai ha laid her traps y 1 TT T IS an ea easy y thIng thine to a bo Any Woman IT I with a pretty face Cace a nimble foot toot and s-nd palavering Sl tongue in la her hr head can do the trick In fact act In Inmost most cases the th boy conies comes come up and runs run hit his head bead hea o of hla 0 onn n accord Into the matrimonial noose lie lieis is overstocked with sentiment that he must unload I on some tome on onE i H lie He is li in love with love and all alt th that DOROTHY DIX DEC any girl sirl ha has to do ll Is to Inveigle him bin out Into thc moonlight and let l t him cast the robe over OHr her Even Iven his grandmother could maLe make him lum belle belIc belles e that she the was it it and that life lire be b a barren waste without her ber herA herA A widower Is I still easier t to catch He is hell h ll bent on n matri matrimony mony ony men anyway and h ho he will snatch match up any woman who plants plante plants herself in hi his way so to that h he cant can't help trip stumbling over her and ru rush h with her off to the panon parson A widower Is like II a dog without a master like Ilk a prisoner turned out of f Jail Jal who doesn't know what to do with hIs hi liberty like a schoolboy who finds all the th pep taken out of playing hooky because It Is Va- Va VacatIon va vacation cation time and nobody notices notice or cares what ho he h does doe Is something about domesticity that unfits a ro man n who ha has bas once once been housebroken for tor any au other kind of ot life A man wan who has hils been accustomed to punching the th homo home time clock on the dot even ever e ee e e ning and nd sitting titling do don nn n to the sort ort of dinner ho be likes without having to Older coder it 11 and ond Up tip the walter waiter and to ha basing his buttons put In his hi shirt and to having somebody to blame for tor even everything thIng thine thit th goes wrong simply Imply cint get et along alone without it He H Is I bored to d death In clubs lant cookIng upsets his stomach and h he bo finds indu life flavorless ss without a sparring 1 So any woman who wh will say a few f w kind words to the wid ower and pat him on n the head and feed him on angels angel's angel food can have him for the th taking But Out an old bachelor That Is II I something different yet again BEGIN DEGL with mth a man is generally r an old bachelor because that ith Is Ii 00 To T the station in lIfo life to which he be b has bas called ed himself and which by bythe bythe the glace giace of ot God Good he b has ha achieved He H Is I celibate by Instinct and the attractions of the feminine sex ex are feeble f ble for or him compared to his bis passion for tor personal Hbert Furthermore he 1 la Is wary He is us experienced In vain are he snare mare of th the fowler laid before him for h he has lisa seen th thorn them mand I and sidestepped them a thousand times Th There re ll is not a feminine approach that he does docs doe not know by heart not a tactic of a managing mamma or r a bobbed haired flapper that he hunt hasn't checkmated with consummate generalship a hundred time T TK IS no mooning ready roady to see ee the inexpressible Ine she in every H fluttering petticoat and Ild every throb of ot the pull pulse as a I fata attack of ot heal t disease Ho He i Is no lon omo widower ready to ut tat out of ot any soft sort white while hand band that will feed teed him Ho JIe li Is a man majl who I loves hImself loves his own nays hIS hs h own pocketbook and and who Is ready to dIe dt defending them I There Ther are practically but two way ways in which a woman weman can I break through th the defence of an old ld bachelor On One of th these is II isby by playing up home stuff a as her big Bertha And oven even thi this thle I Is only effective on th the old bachelor whose whole bachelorhood was waso so to speak thrust upon him TIlER War EBE are some som men vho v-bo never marr marT marn who would ba hae hai e liked toha to 1 ha e married b bt t were prevented from doing so BO by Circumstances Sometime a mere boy has hag tb the support of ot his ls family thrust upon him and he has to put all thoughts of ot marriage from him during the tho senti sentimental mental year ars whilo h he be I Is taking care o of lila his mother and educating his bis brothers brother and sisters and starting them In the th world v orld Some Sometimes Sometimes times there ther Is a shadowy romance a love lov lost loit through death or treachery ery cry in the background of ot a mans man's life that explains explain why he be h has bas never There are not really old bachelors They are potential husbands and a as they get around toward sixty the primitive instincts begin to rouse route In them again and they thy corn com mence thinking that old ld ago age ag will be b dreary with nobody but buta buta buta a club steward or a bO boarding house hour keeper to look after thom and listen to their symptoms or to t remind them to put on their winter flannels Then It I Is III that the woman who dangles angle th the Idea of a home before them and who knows know how hw to mak make thorn thom comfy when they y call and wh who manifests manifest a sympathetic attitude toward their little littie can bring them to the proposing pOint If sie i pl ploys play lYS her cards card welt well and secures to herself the th privilege of of nursing their fout Cout out for f r the th remainder of her life I UT th the case casehardened hardened old od bachelor who wa sti s born bOID a bachelor I is Ie a BUT B harder barder proposition Th The weak spot pot In his hie Achilles heel I Is that he be becomes th the slave ilave of habit lie He II eats eata th the same m thing every day h he walks the same sam number of ot blocke block f he h arrives and Ild departs depart from his office on the tho of the th clock lIe He H keeps keps hl brushes at lit exactly the came ame am angle I anel on his hi He visits the th same friends friend This type man or-man oman o man will go to see aee a woman fr for years yar and years without ever ver popping th the question without ever realizing that h he enjoys her society or r I la Is fond of her hr and her hp only chance I la Is t to wak wake him up by going away Then h he finds find out that she sh has ha become a habit and he will marry her rather than break It Copyright 1923 1929 by Public Ledger Ld er Company But old bachelors are ar wary wery old ld bird birds and an hard to t catch at that DOROTHY DIX |