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Show EUGENIC PROPOSAL WILL 'SPIFLICATE' YOUNG ROMANCES, Bj EAR! B c. Rin: i -International New- s,.rXlt. suifi ..r-respondent- LON'DON, Jan. 22. All this eugenic marriage business Ls pure rot, opines Vaughan Dryden. who writes about It In tho iJallv Mirror "Shall we have eugenic proposals?" propos-als?" he asks. He's afraid not. They ask more nutations while you're trying to get a passport I., cross the Channel thun they (u when vou get n passport Into matrimony mat-rimony he finds. At the marriage license bureau, he further discovers, discov-ers, after your father has been set down as a plumber, or a bookmaker, book-maker, or a marquis or whatever he was, they lose all Interest In vou. "After that you are at liberty to go ahead and afflict future gener ations with myopia. ergophobla. chronic thirst, housemaid's knee or anything else In that line you happen to have about vou."' Dryden Dry-den says. "The man at th? passport pass-port office Is at least particular about the color of your eyes and the shape of your nose." But Suppose eugenics did really real-ly prove to be catching, and folks went in for It seriously? Thus is the proposal recounted. "Old thing, if you think you could put up with a rotter like me it wouldn't be a bad thing to get married what? But before you say 'yes' dear old egg j ought to tell you that my great-aunt Kllza-btth Kllza-btth had a chronic faro acho." And beloved halts him with: "Hold hard, old bean, and let's do a think. We might pass tho great-aunt ElitabethS face-ach if vou're pretty sure the rest of I the stable were pretty sound." It won't do. Mr. Dryden concludes con-cludes that there Isn't much romance ro-mance in love affairs nowaday 'lit such a dialogue as above "Would effectually and eternally splfllratc what little romance remains. |