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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.
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disinclination to marry may be largely
accounted for by the freedom of com
i pnnionship that prevails between the
sexes. 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 ' ,><? cause «e have made court
: Ship toil easy, there is little of it. It
Is because nowadays a man may have
' a woman s society without Incurring
a "y responsibilities that he ducks, the
wedding ring, if women want to pro-
I mote matrimony, they have got. in
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The receipts from this entertain
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visiting firemen who are guests of the
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The large crowds that till the Pax
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going public of Harrisburg are aware
of the fact that the park theater is an
ideal place of amusement during the
summer months. And then the shows
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best of the standard winter attractions.
The bill for this week is one that it
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Penryn, June 11.—With impressive
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sand people. The Rev. George B. Rae
zer, of Lititz. had charge and the Rev.
A. O. Bartholomew, of Manheim,
preached the sermon.
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TO ATTKXD CONVENTION
The annual State convention of the
Sons of Veterans will be held next
Wednesday and Thursday, June 17 and
18, at Sunbury. Representatives from
all the branches of the Sons of Vet
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attend. Those from this city that
will attend are: Karl Stewart, Ray
Stewart, C. F. Neely, C. Day Rudy, D.
W. Cotterel, W. S. Steele and D. D.
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I. O. O. P. MEMORIAL SERVICE
Special to The Telegraph
Mechanicsburg, Pa., June 11.—Ac
cording to the request of the Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, a memorial
service was held Tuesday evening by
Mechaniesburg Lodge, No. 215, with
exercises appropriate to the occasion,
giving expression of the enduring
memories of the departed members.
The death roll for the past year is as
follows: Fred Brakemaker, died Jan
uary 5, a member of the order thirty
five years; Christian Swartz, died April
7, a member sixty-three years; Samuel
N. Miller, died April 2, member twen
ty-two years; John M. Rupp, died from
effects of revolver shot on May 21, a
member two years; E. Rankin Huston,
died May 26, a member forty-six years.
An address was made by the chaplain
of the lodge, the Rev. E. C. B. Castle.
FARMERS' INSTITUTE
Special to The Telegraph
New Bloomfield, Pa., June 11.—On
Tuesday the board of managers of the
farmers' institute of Perry county, rep
resentatives of the Perry County Fruit
Growers' Association and Pomona
Grange, No. 1615, met here and ar
ranged to hold a farmers' institute
December 9, 10, 11 and 12, and the
Perry County Fruit Growers' Asso
ciation will also hold its annual fruit,
veegtable, corn and cereal exhibition.
The place selected is Newport for this
year and the indications are that it
will be one of the largest exhibitions
of the Fruit Growers' Association ever
held in Perry county.