Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1919 — Through the Looking Glass [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Through the Looking Glass

By EVELYN NESBIT

When a man offers you the world with a fence around it, there may be

a string tied to it. Watch out for the string. It is foolish for a young girl to marry a man for the . things he promises to give her after the knot is tied. So easy is the business of making promises that all young swains are prone to paint the future in brilliant colors. And the young girl.nibbles and bites. Then she regrets it — when it is too

late. Don’t marry in the hope that yon may ride in a golden automobile,, or that you may have ice cream for dessert every day. Those are not the things that count. Don’t marry for the sake of living in a ,hubby-to-be*s fine fiye-story house, or for the sake of becoming part owner in his prosperous, business. Watch out for the string. . , Hubby-to-be may offer you his fine house as a home before you are married, ;but aftecward he may expect you to run it for him as a boarding house. Hubby-tobe may differ you before you are married a partnership in his fide, prosperous business, but afterward he may expect you to sink your precious savings into it and lose them all. Watch out for the string when you marry a man for the material good you may expect to get out ’ of the match. If you have your eyes open beforehand you may learn that marriage founded on dollars and cents is a delusion and a snare. The woman who marries for the sake of having the world with a fence .around it generally loses in the nod. ■