10 wowen r^rJnTeß^'aS> Why Man Ducks the Wedding Ring BY DOROTHY DIX. Bin a recent inter view In a Paris pa per Madame Bern hardt explained what fail of matrimony." She said: "If the customs of my youth were now prevalent and the young people of to day were not allowed to mingle so much without hindrance, the marriage returns would rapidly in crease." Same here. The divine Sarah the wise Sarah—has put her Anger on the crux of the whole matter. People don't marry because comradeship has been substituted for love between men and women, and they are contented to be friends in stead of husbands and wives. Women were never as attractive and desirable as they are to-day. Not even among the ancient Greeks was the per centage of female pulchritude so high as it is now. The cult of the body lias become almost a religion among women. So if a man seeks for beauty in a fe he may shut his eyes, and make a grab in the dark in any group of girls, and be :;ure of getting one who in his grandmother's time would have had all the poets writing sonnets to her eyebrows, and all the beaux fight ing duels for her smiles. Women are also more intelligent than they ever were before, more versatile, more sympathetic, better fitted to be wives an.l helpmates to men: "vet with all of h»r attractions and accomplish ments the modern girl lacks one art In which her grandmother excelled— the art of catching a husband. The Secret Is to llnkr Courtship Difficult. Not I'tiNy, UN \mi. And the secret of this art was the art of allure—of tolling a man along —in a word, of making courtship dif ficult of too easy as it is now. The chief reason that men show a There is a "man-failure all along the line" where the body is not nourished by foods that build bone and muscle and brain, that keep the human body up to top notch efficiency. 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In the olden times when the j only way a man could enjoy a woman's ' Society was by marrying her, he was I In a rush to hustle with her to the altar. ! But when custom permits him lto monopolize a woman's evenings; i when they may spend long days to i gether en the xolf links: when they ' may artend theaters and parties to -1 gethey. and tea and dine In company • in restaurants, the man jis in no hurry to wed He has as i 1 much of the lady's society as he de i sires without the necessity of assum ! ing her bills, or giving her a right to | lecture him. The long engagement Is a modern invention of man s. not woman's, and 1 It is a handicap that our grandmothers never knew. Nothing that the new status of woman has brought her is . so delightful as platonic friendship with man, but we get nothing in this world without paying for it. and the price I that women pay for comradeship with . men is too often s >!:»Kterhood. When I it was a case of eli>.?r lover or noth ing, it was generally lover. I Another reason why men are less 'eager about marrying now than they used to be is that women are too willing. Many things change, but hu man nature never changes, and the primitive instinct In man Is for the chase. The harder a thing is to get the more he wants it. Women have forgotten this masculine peculiarity, ajid instead of permitting themselves to be pursued, they have turned around and run after the men with the re sult that they seldom catch them— for woman, alas, was not built for the chase. Probably our grandmothers were just as anxious to gel luiirried as any girl Is now, hut they oal the gumption to affect a coy and reluctant attitude, and because a man believed that it was difficult to capture the citadel of a maiden's affection, he wooed her with Are, and passion, and energy. Then He Wooed with Fire. Hut How In It with the Modern Glrlf Because she appenred Indifferent to his visits, he kept the path to her door ! footsteps, Because the most | that he hoped to win from her hand in tne shape of a letter was a line or two I of sweet, copy book, maidenly reply to I his numerous missives, he weighted : down the malls with burning love let- I ters. " I How is It now? The modern girl i has left him in no doubt as to the I 5 j , ? er affections. She ll say "yes. . and thank you. too," whenever lie asks | her, so he feels that any old love mak i L nE do "he doesn't come to see i her, she calls up on the Dlione. and so he when there's nothing more ; amusing in prospect. As for letters, she 11 write any way. so what's the : ? e .1" bothering to keep up his end ior the correspondence? It's the old . story of the overripe peach that no ] one wants to gather. I Our grandmothers also had another ad\ antage that we lack—our great ' grandparents understood the value of the unattainable. Thev didn't throw their daughters at eligible young men's heads. They built fences around them. x\ hen a young man came a-wooing the entire family didn't take to the kitchen to give him a chance. On the contrary, the stern parents stood guard over a girl, and put him to nis wits end to steal a moment's secret h°nti erSe w '*'' or slyly press her Sometimes the wily father even went to the .extent of locking a girl up in her room to keep her from a suitor, and then the man, who verv likelv couldn t have been driven in at the mwn !' 1 0or ' risked his neck climbing up to the window to steal her. He Can Hare Woman'* Society ail lib.. So Why Marry f a word, they made courtship ro ' and difficult, and in consequence j there were many elopements. Now ; Di?iT e V er ' ,>