Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — Searching Europe for His Soul Mate [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Searching Europe for His Soul Mate

This youthful New York stock broker, has sailed for Europe on a quest for an ideal wife. He wants a woman who combines the beauty and racial characteristics of London, Paris, Vienna and Rome, where he will search for “her,” one that possesses a minimum of feminine failings and a maximum of feminine virtues. He wants a woman of phyßique corresponding to his. She mußt be of his height, 5 feet 8 inches and must balance the scales at 140 pounds, his weight.. He makes no concession in age, giving her the privilege of being younger than himself. He is 28. Concluding a flowery description of “her,” the young broker said: “She must be dark, with black hair &nd dark eyes. I have no use for blondes. Who can tell whether the golden hair or the wheat-colored tresses we admire have been supplied by the Almighty or developed from a prescription. I don't want to have to makb a chemical analysis of my wife after I have married her.”

ditions. That, as I say, will come in a few years. “The value of the aeroplane in warfare will be almost inestimable. It doesn’t make any difference whether they will be able to destroy battleships or not. They will be able to dynamite transports sift a shower of shrapnel over marching or camping armies, act as scouts, detect submariner —and' all with perfect safety. Lieutenant Scott has shown me a model of a device by which he can drop a shrapnel bomb in a given twenty-flve-foot square from a height of 5,000 feet with absolute certainty of aim. “As a sport Curtiss’s hydro-aero-plane will be one of the most popular forms of amusement along our seashores in another year or two. A man can glide along the water or rise' above It, at a speed of from thirty to thirty-five miles an hour on the water, to fifty or sixty miles in the air, and with almost perfect safety.. If he gets a tumble the water isn’t very hardstuff to fall on. “You can say for me that I am certain that within three years an aeroplane will cross' from Queenstown to* Halifax without a stop, and one of the members of our club haß bet $2,000 on it.’’

“What Is golf, pa?” “Golf, my son, is a pleasant little scheme devised by manufacturers of small corrugated gutta percha balls to make a losing game a paying one for them.”

ALFRED R. RISSE.

A PARADOX.