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Show Tells Bachelors How to Choose a Wife Six hundred bachelors spent their luncheon hour the other day receiving receiv-ing "fatherly" advice from Professor Winficld S. Hall of Northwestern University Uni-versity Medical School on "Choosing a Wife," says the Chicago Herald. "Imagine the girls of your acquaintance acquaint-ance lined up before you. Out of the possible six to twenty girls you are to choose a wife. Which one will you choose? "Four things must b considered her health, her hereditary qualities, her education and her age. Exclude from the ranks tho girl of poor health. It's a calamity for a man to marry such a girl. "Don't marry a girl just because she she has a pretty figure r.nd large, lustrous lus-trous eyes and is a beautiful dancer, if at 20 she has only tho mind of a girl of, 12 years old. "Don't marry an heiress one with more than $15,000 or $20,000. You may become unhappy with her and her money. "Don't marry into a family whero there are traces of insanity or feeblemindedness. feeble-mindedness. "Avoid the daughter of a confirmed alcoholic. "Don't marry a girl just because she knows Latin and Greek. It Is nothing against her if she has had a college education, provided she knows how to cook meals, make clothes and care for children. "According to the best scientific research, these figures show the relative rela-tive ages at which men and women should marry. "A man of 21 should marry a girl between 19 and 2o years. "At 25, ono between 21 and 27. "At 30, one between 23 and 2S. "At 35, one between 23 and 30. "At 40, one between 25 and 33. "At 45, one between 25 and 35. "At 50, one between 40 and 00. "At CO, one between 45 and CO. "At 70, ono between 50 and CO. "At SO, one between GO and 70. "When a man gets to be 50 years jiu, nu suuuiu iiul expect io rear a family. I advise such a man to marry a widow with several children. "When a man of GO or more mar- ries it is only for tho purpose of having hav-ing a nurse during his declining years. It is unfair for him to marry any one younger than himself. Ho should marry a childless widow or an old maid." |