Show DIX Ba TALKS ri By DIX lUX the Iho in Worl Highest Paid Wow Woman V YOUR STEP MR MAN AND DONT DON'T GET TANGLED UP IN A LONG ENGAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT-DON'T DONT DON'T MAKE LOVE WHEN YOURE YOU'RE LONESOME LONESOME BEWARE BEWARE OF CALF LOVE AND ABOVE ALL NEVER MARRY A GIRL BECAUSE SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU THERE Pr THERE HERE are four particularly dangerous hairpin turns In a young mans man's sentimental journey and andt t It f he can negotiate these without skIdding over oter the th brink Into the pit of ot domestic miser misery he Is fairly certain to make the trip safely to the Land of Hearts Heart's Hearts Heart's- Deside of a happy marriage bj The first danger is i that of his getting entangled In a long engagement THIS Ins peril Is peculiarly apt to befall the youn young b man who is the architect of his own fate and i the psychological moment in which the catastrophe a Is I most mo t likely to take place is when he starts tarts forth to seek his fortune 4 a v r ft Then Just because he lie feels feel sentimental t and emotional and sad at leaving home and andly old frIends and because some som girl weeps at t parting from him a young chap is apt to tou- tou fancy himself In love and ask some ome girl to toKU-lllY toKU lllY U UI II l 1 w walt wait for him She no wiser than he foolishly agrees to o do the monument the act and so he starts forth fettered and nd bound to fight tight the world Tl TJ r E III idi a ol of r a woman loving lovine him and keeping herself for tor him ap ap- ap appe PC pe ils lis ls lo w all that is gallant callant and romantic in his lila nature and nd at first Ih hi a Q nu J thinks about the girl cirl she seems to him a seraph from the BU DUI a lime tinie goes on as absence distance come between them and s II he Ij is shaped by the Influences of his Ills nev new life the picture tm md fhe Ille maiden ceases to look like a seraph She appears more lIke a who is waiting to collect a promissory note that he under the tho Influence ot ol the going home from bome brand of dope cud thai thu he has come to regret bitterly bitter Nearly always by the time the youth has made enough money to marry the girl back home he has lost lott his taste for her He has outgrown her His affection for her is dead as a adoor adoor adoor door nail naif but he ha feel feels that h hs he has hilS to make good on his prom prom its isa he has kept her from marrying the th prosperous buthel or bakr the rhe might have m married You cant can't take tak the tenderloin and cake out of a ladys lady's mouth without substituting ing chocolate creams for them UE IIA lEAVE HAVE VE all seen SeeD the tragedy of the rong yong engagement over andi and i IT T over agaIn for it is a a tragedy no less for tor the girl sirl than the boy e have seen Mamie and Susie grow crow old and faded and tot tor John and Tommy to come back bacle and marry many them and we wel e l e mi mingled led our tears with theirs when hen John and Tom didn't come bah 1111 11 sl And nd mostly when they did come back we have hue looked al a and Toms Tom's set white hite faces and have hae known that all they D a d w s a a x band on their sleeves to give ghe a realistic Imitation ot ci being the chief chet ch ef mourner at their own funerals The next danger a young man runs Is of marrying unsuitable girl Just because he happened to board in the Ime C ime house with her or worked v In the same office with her is the very demon of matchmaking Somehow the very nearness to the people with whom we live liy every day ay keeps us UI from frem getting a perspective on their faults aults and disabilities Habit dulls us uz to their vulgarities co that we cease to noce them and co so we drift Into that keco keep the divorce courts busy and the th world salted down with the brine of the tears of the thc unhappily married A LL JL of at us know dozens of ot men who are the victims of these mes- mes alliances We le see Smith who Is au Intellectual gIant married to toR toa n R Ulie lIUe IPU dumb Dora Dor and we wonder at hIs hia choice We e see ste Jones who hu has the he manners manner of a II Chesterfield and the poise that comes of cen cen- centuries turks tunes oi ot aristocratic breeding mar mari Irl I to a common little wife who Is s as awkward in society as a II huH bull lu a II china shop and we marvel at the c We see PerkIns vho ho is big and broad and genial nd ard with his Ignorant narrow prejudiced wife and w cannot w-cannot understand the madness that possessed him to pick out such an mate Ninety nine e times out ota ot a hundred if you will ask Mes rs Smith Jones and Perkins where they met inet their wives they will say uy that It W was lS In some ome boarding house houle when they first came to the city or that they worked alongside the ladies They married the women next to them just because they were next Tl EY LV were ere lonesome They liked women's society They liked to togo Tl T co go out with women and they didn't have any way ay of o getting gellIng ac- ac acQuainted acquainted ac with Girls of ot their own rank In life lICe so they made friends B i li ii the Ui Mamie and Sadies and Carriss with whom they were thrown 1 0 o because they were at the tine time of o Ufo when hen a man man-Is In love wh h love lore and end bound hound to lo talk sentiment to some woman they whIs- whIs whIsT wills r T 1 red wet nothings Into the ears that were wera ere bandy handy and the end thereof was a marrIage that let both parties In for tor or lifelong misery The third great danger to a man Is calf call love lov Ever Every boy Is as sure ur to have an attack of it as he Is of the measles Fortunately neither complaint is II necessarily fatal but the they are always hazardous because you can never tell what the tho af after er effects effect are going to be TANY n a a boy goes coes into tuberculosIs from the th measles and man many a alvi Y MA case of calf love ends In a II tying himself life me wIth ome unsuitable oat that has bis caught his bis immature and crude fancy In all nil the world there is nothIng more pathetic than a married boy boy-a a boy who has taken a wife fe before he be knows know what hat he be wants before betor his hi tastes are formed before he has enjoyed life before he heItl 1 financially able to support a family and who Is s burdened down downin In n the heyday of ot his you youth h when he be ought to be spreading spreading- his wIngs in freedom and having the whole world from which to choose Th The spectacle of a slim lIm young chap with tired d line lines in hIs face and weary eyes pushing a baby buggy mutt must make hi- hi hIs guardian angel turn Its It I fae face to the wall and weep Besides Beside this thia the th young man married Is the young man marred for fol marriage cuts a man off from a thousand sources of opp opportunity and often nails nail him to a small mall Job that he I Is afraid to give up when wilen he h e has ha wife and anti children depending upon him TOY marriage marrice is I a dl disaster aster so complete that the th state ought to fur fur- fur fur-D BOy B utah nish asylums asylum with padded cells here where boys boy are suffering from froni acute attacks attack o of calf love lov could be imprisoned until unlit they came cam to toI I theIr senses lenses en es The fourth danger a man runs run Is II I In marrying a girl sim Im Imply ply because because she he h Is I In love lov with him This I a more mere mor t peril than you imagine because while It dIsgusts a man to see a woman ch chase cha after other men it flatter flatters him for her herto herto herto to chase char him FEELS that he be would auld be b a brute brut to be cold when she looks look at HE H him him with adoring eyes eye or to withhold the tender tend r speech wh when n a word of ot careless sentiment makes make her ber fu flut h with happiness and be before fore he be know knoIs It be he finds himself being led to the altar by a woman for whom he be has no real affection These Theae four are ar the th sentimental pits pit into which men often often- est eat it fall fail Hence Henc these red lanterns lanu DOROTHY DIX COP Cop Cop-c c DY liy Public Leaser Company |