Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1915 — How to Pick a Husband [ARTICLE]

How to Pick a Husband

The Paris Figaro pretends to be able to read the character of anybody by the way in which he eats a peach and similar trifling acts at table. “Watch your lover, young woman,” it advises. “If he bends over his knife and fork and finishes his roast in three gulps, beware. He is surely not appreciative, and you may dress with taste and look ever so pretty, and he will not know it If he is fond of sweets, he is nervous and will nag. If he likes cheese and roast meat he will be mu* cular and placid. If he has times of immoderate eating of bread, he is fond of the country. If he eats a peach slowly and tenderly, like a connoisseur, peels it like an artist and treats it with reverence, Instead of hurrying it down like a boor, he is all right and the sooner you marry him, the happier you will be.” But it is not well to confide too mucf in these snap tests. They sound clever, but they do not always wear well—Kate' Upson Clark, in Leslie’s. - .