Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — JUST BECAUSE MAN PROPOSES [ARTICLE]

JUST BECAUSE MAN PROPOSES

It Remains Only for Woman to Provo Herself Adaptable to Ctrcumetances. r 1 If a woman could have the same liberty of cholco In the acquiring of a husband as a man has In the selection of a wife, consider the change It would make in the marriage problem and In the divorce court. It by no means follows that because a man loves a woman she loves him. But he may be the only man who loves her, or he may be the only man who Is eligible, or the only man her people want her to marry, or any one of 100 onlles you can easily think of for your■elf. -.——4^;...And what then? There may be some unattainable man the woman really, does love, but what can she do? Almost nothing! She Is bound to choose from the men who com© t > her. True, she can stay single, and many women do so, and on this very account —that they never have happened to love the men who loved them. But to stay Single Is not a solution of the question, and it does not appeal to the majority of women. Nine times o.ut of ten the woman locks up in her heart the Ideal of a husband she has formed, or the preferences she has inherited or acquired, or the thought of the other man, and takes the man who wants to marry her, whether or not he Is the man she wants to marry. If she Is a woman of character she persuades herself and others that he Is the man she wants to marry. She lends herself to whatever form his wooing may take. If he is blond and bearded, though she prefer dark eyes and shaven face, yet you would never guess It from word of hers., She may have assured herself every day that she will marry only a man of dignity, but she will recant when her suitor proves a clown. She may adore spontaneous merriment and not only marry a straightlaced prude but swear that It Is the only kind of a man she can endure.— Margaretta M. Tuttle in Collier’s.