Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1920 — MEN’S SILLY IDEA [ARTICLE]

MEN’S SILLY IDEA

Too Many Think Themselves “Matrimonial Bargains.” Notion That Spinster* Arw\L.ying In Watt to Snatch Them j* Laughed At By Writer in London Periodical. “You take care, old bean; there are three daughters, and a fellow ha* to be jolly careful when mothers are abouL” He was a very young man, and his position in life nothing to crow about But he’d put himself on the bargain counter of life ever since he read that there were seven women to every man. remark* a writer in London Answers. A good many men have grown inflated about their own value since all the talk of surplus spinsters, and some of them go about with their heart* in armor plating, fearful lest some designing spinster may “catch them.” The knowledge that they’re not In a position to keep a wife makes no difference; they imagine that men are so scarce that any girt would snap at toenu. - - - — — And the poor spinster looks on and laughs. She isn’t to nearly so great a hurry to wed as Mr. Young Man thinks and she’s really rather particular about toe bargains she pick* up, knowing full well that not all things so labeled turn out to be genuine bargains. She in her turn, in spite of the man shortage, has the idea that she is an important person. Both young men and girls are getting rather fond of labeling themselves bargains these days. You see, many girls have come on of late years. They are earning ample salaries and hold good positions for which they have qualified themselves. It is true that in some instances they got thqse positions because the men were away, but not to every instance. Many a girl has won through sheer merit If one looks at the'bachelor women of today the inflated Idea 'which so many young men have of themselves does seem rather silly. A girl who is in a good post would have to give up a lot for marriage; not that she would mind that if she loved her man.

Then, too, she may have got together quite a nice home of her own and, although there are times when she is rather lonely, still, she manages to have quite a good time on the whole. The man who won her would find that little home, ready made, a boon in these days of highly priced furniture. Small wonder that the bachelor girl rather resents the outlook of the young man of today. She doesn’t like his bargain-counter attitude, although she errs in the same way. She is a far more independent person than was even her own mother, and she knows the value of freedom along with the drawbacks; She also knows just exactly what she wants in a man she could marry and, what is more, if she can’t get what she wants she is ready to remain a spinster to the end of the The young man who labels himself a bargain rarely comes up to her ideal and ideas. Let’s have a little less of the bargain counter, Mr. Young Man and Miss Bachelor Girl. The great rule of “give and take” still holds for happiness and there’s finer pleasure in giving than in taking. .