Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1916 — A Tip For the Ladies. [ARTICLE]

A Tip For the Ladies.

Lafayette Journal. South Bend wives now know how to hold the love of their husbands and as news of a good thing rap • ■iriy it will not be long until every Hoosier wife will be in possession of a secret that* is calculated to discour age the activity of the divorce mills and prevent hubby from permitting his mind to wander too freely to a consideration of the charms of other females. ~ A woman lecturer slipped the South Bend ladies the tip and we are inclined to thinik that she is more than hails right in her logic. The secret may be told in two words, “perk up.” Of course she went into details and suggested that the best way to prevent divorces, and smoothe the matrimonial road was for the fair one to acquire silk stockings, a few fancy clothes, and make herself as attractive as possible. „ “Do Silk stockings and low necks cause divorces?” the lecturer asked, and then answered her own question. “Not by a long shot. There'd be fewer divorces and affinities if the wives would wear them, together with other fancy regalia. All the men like them.”

That woman is some judge of masculinity, and she knows what is the matter in a lot of homes where love has ceased to abide, or at least make itself very conspicuous. There is too much of an inclination to let down, to become careelss, after a few years of married life. Perhaps those years have not been as rosy as the dreams of the girl had pictured them, but she is risking a lot when she fails to do "everything possible to make herself attractive in the eyes of her husband and in the-eyes of other men. Without intending disloyalty to his wife, .there isn’t a man who does not secretly wish that she looked as good as Blank’s wife, when they are out in public; he likes to see her wear the new styles and the pretty things, so far as he is able to provide them, and the woman who gets the notion into her head that just because she is married and has a legal hobble on John that she can afford to neglect her personal appearance is making a serious mistake. John may not kick over the traces in a violent manner but ydu can take it from one who knows men that he notices the difference. And when you see a man’s gaze following a wellgroomed woman on the street, or the theatre, or the church, it does not necessarily follow that he is always guilty of covetousness. Admiration of a woman may be as free of evil as admiration for any other beautiful thing, but the woman who “don’t

care how she looks” isn’t going to get a great deal of attention from any man. " ; ' -If the lady readers of this column Will see to it that other men admire them they may rest assured that hubby is /going to 'be a lot more attentive. This may not mean that they are to be flirtatious or unwomanly, but merely to give, so far as possible, that attention to theirs personal appearance that they did before they assumed the responsibilities of matrimony. We decline to enter into a discussion of the details of proper apparel. for the woman who wants to look well; she knows what is best suited to her type, but in the interest of morality and Ijeauty and loyal affection, we are ready, to lend endorsement to the utterances of the lecturer who advised her hearers to “perk up.”