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Show thing to be proud of, but many a child of good breeding and of good parentage has gotten into trouble on his or her own actions. ac-tions. Abraham Lincoln never spent much time bragging about his ancestors, yet he was never ashamed as-hamed of them, nor did he depend de-pend upon them for his success in life. The lady who picks a leap year husband for what he has or for the ancestors he has, may come to grief if she does not look the fellow over and find out as much as she possibly can about him, and not his grandfather. grand-father. Then again some mothers have very foolish notions who their girls should marry. When some one else picks the girl's husband, love soon grows cold and wears out. , EDITORIAL A MAN OR MONEY WHICH? A certain schoolma'am was recently asked whether a pair of stockings would hold all she wanted for Christmas. She replied re-plied "No, but a pair of socks would." Iu other words, she confessed that she wanted a man. A woman to insure happiness ahead must use common sense in tying up with a man. Whom to pick is the big question and most women can have their choice. Some folks get the notion no-tion they should marry a man with a pedigree, rather than to take a fellow with plenty of pep. Other girls look for a man with a heavy purse. They have no use ifor the man who cannot give them ease and luxury. The fellow fel-low who has had his day and fortune and wasted both will never make a good mate for a real woman. Of course, if the woman amounts to nothing it will not make any difference whom she mates with. Many women and men forget the corner stone of a happy marriage mar-riage is true love, the happiest homes are not the richest, the happiest families are those where health and honorable pursuit pur-suit after some worthy ideals is the purpose of life and living. Trace the offspring of one family fam-ily and you will find in this flow of humanity all sorts of human beings, good ancestry is some- |