Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1918 — WHERE TO LOOK FOR WIFE [ARTICLE]

WHERE TO LOOK FOR WIFE

Seek Her in Butcher’s Shop, Says This Writer, and Mark Just How She Buys. A good housewife will look at least two square meals ahead of her nose. The modern system of marketing during the high cost regime is such a fine art that a youth contemplating matrimony should hie to the market place for selecting a bride. My boy, Zim advises in Cartoons Magazine, when you see a maiden pinching, smelling and pricing a soup bone, you may rely on her sense of economy, for she is looking forward not less than two meals. The soup bone, when cooked, is merely food in the rough or primitive state. Its choicest by-products are realized after bouillon stage. Thereafter comes goulash, the croquettes and the luscious hash. By all means avoid the girl who orders choice cuts of porterhouse or English mutton chops. She will not make a good helpmate. But the girl who selects the chuck or neck pieces or the tail end of a ham bone, and renders them into dainty, palatable dishes is the one you want. So take.my advice and seek the rparket place when you feel that you have had your fill of bachelor loneliness and wish a taste of wedlock. Follow such a girl around until you are perfectly satisfied, then nail her.