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FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1920 White Collar Men Not Marrying! — License Figures Reveal That 99% f ; AreModern Honeymoons TooLong? *‘No,”’ Says Year-Old Bride-Poet; ~’ Lovers Should Get Acquainted ATT | etten . ‘cc + 9) anienaneanil Of Applicants Are ‘‘Mechanics’” . 5 a , es ‘ Mrs. Margaret Widdemer Schauffler Also Believes in Early Maurice K 'City Registrar Hart ‘Declares That an Analysis of Mar- Marriages; Likens a Honeymoon to Heaven. | riage Applications Proves That Cupid a ae B Legld lnoahady tekina waren. aa i Gor YOu R LETTER WE WOULD ' | Found rt oe ps sagt Only With the ‘ , Wa GE, pe aden aoe lower tach more f0 seria ber eoeans q ARV: ALS J CALL Oy Se ro ( Overs, 100, by he rh fou be are Tork Prening Word wate os ee trance [eee gate ay phauemtars of, JALL STAR —S. . We eee ie beara om Se honeymoon.” Now the London papers| Who likes Shakespeare, but it isn’t essential, and certain English novelists are in-|“"NT" now,” Mra, Schauffler added, «| volved in a discussion as to whether) mischievous dimple #howing in her | the wartime week.| pink cheek, “there is a certain type | 0 ‘unhappy who goes to her) end — boneymoon | °f Uh 4 By ch lecture on Maeterlinck and Waa not more truly | comes home filled with suppressed blissful than the hate 3 Lape she must one the companionship of her nice, , conventional four | kind, business husband, who, of co weoks of “‘twosing’’ | pays her club dues and pays for any for which this! thing else she happens to want. year’s — walter|I haven't very much respect for that woman, have you?” 74 vrides and bride-| +7 have not!” I exclaimed. “Yet, must ee Y _ groome are plann-' there not be a mental companionship | we 4 ing. It seems to be | # well as romantic love, in the per- | the consenaus of| ect marriage? The most romantic of | husbands must talk, ag well as iit British opinion that long honeymoons ‘even on the honeymoon. Surely it’ are a mistake, and one cynic even|well to have him talk one’ own lan- asserts that “if the average married | uage. And can one be sure of pick- New York’s Marriage Li-|to say, boasts one lawyer, cense Bureau tells! scores on the physicians, the story in con-|to Manhattan's two. ise figures, Of! However, the sum of ~ Pr the first 600 mar-| sional men out of pg hanic riage Heenses is-| plumbers, steamfitters and sued in 1920 In| makers js rot a very a Manhattan there| Where are the professional were just exactly! “white-collar” salaried men? ‘ three men who|H. C. L. proved an arch enemy of fave their ocoupa-| Cupid for some, while fat Wages and — tions as profes-| prosperoug times have come to | sional. There was! aid of others? Has Cupid i lone lawyer and two physicians, ‘The! “white-collar mén” fallen es FILM co ZO» peencnneaerene sete ing, at eighteen, the soi f person | DI I reuaded into candor |, or a they postu ot that their honey- hTtone can, never be eur anitted WE ARE WILLING \ H, nal BEAD 10 Ne a) moon was the most miserable phase of |Mirs. SohauMer. “But—well, I had TO MAKE A J (7 You A BIG FAT CHECK ) tke Joint Ue nce wo ve:|iaetand another who married ai| |) CONTRACT Far (* FOR AN OPTION ON” volting to romance and” romantic| former wus exactiy aa happy aa the) | LIFE YOUR SERVICES youth, I concluded it was time to call prstned bar ad alld lappy lek: ce ° observe, the early marriages have a witness for the defense of the! suet as good @ chance of success as | the marriages 80 popular in our gen- eration. “I think we have been too cautious, | too much afraid of Wife and its re- naitilities, Some of us have set ¢ selfish enjoyment of a few years | of freedom against unborn lives and the futuré of the race. « | “The war gave just the needed im- | | petus to push many young men and | | women into marriage who would have | dallied outside for years. I think the! | new fashion of early marriages is| | here to stay.” | “And if one marries early and| ” I wickedly pointed out to “at least one has < THE “WHITE COLLAR” MAN CANNOT AFFORD |rest, with the exception of a few| ‘While marrtages aftiong |clerks and salesmen, were machinists, | have taken a jump, martin | ' ' ; { electricians, plumbers, carpenters,| other clase has practically | | ‘ chauffeurs, tailors and laborers, altogether,” said City Registrar The same conditions revealed them-| (not “heart’) of Manhat' of, analysis. The professor, the Phe Ory lee oni Family _ \ieenseise'ine tee License Bureau, who sees figures and has ‘ample speenet ; iy erred By Roy L. McCardell. | Wrig “ne test, in soon ea ° MY SOCIAL SECRETARY i] 1 cocyriaht, 1920, by The Pram Publishing On, tik, ta egret | The Life of a AG a jeeie | MANE assy | |_sdiehestras saat mme| nema bn mae 9 sie a ir. Jarr smiled “The ac’ Seures | Jeff Nutt ad vealed THE ALLSTAR fed, ak vaatecsas Tec tes roe diane the vena tik sey | ‘ "i : e evenin, 1, “Well, it's Ing near | Tun ver: in moat Balted ie pant iat Hs page [CL SEe DEW 5 COCK EIERECG Dyan and uses essa pascal) ay 1917, when we had the ve Copyright, 1920, by The Preas Publishing Co, | YouR. = : ant happy,” ha remariceds marriage panie. Tn 198 there Wotlte F (Tas New York Brening orld.) “You wouldn't be 90 pleased about | %:446 marriages, in 1919 40,0 Ws, Y one experience a butler MANAGER thoir being eo healthy and happy-—| ' 4 good increase. But we ndtl 8 ‘was enough, Walking away | a WITHOUT . Willa, take your elbows off the table | «reat difference in the eliiss to from the scene of my fiasco. I resolved never even to speak to any- body named Butler from that thme on. Margaret Widdemer Schauffler. | 45 ] strolled along I decided that the honeymoon. ‘Therefore I appealed to city was not the place for me. A Margaret Wkidemer, a poet, @ writer) small voice Inside me kept saying, of love stories and a bride, whose own | “Be a farmer, Jeff,” and I tufned my —if you had to pay the bills,” replied | they were issued, and the Mrs. Jarr. tells the stary, « a “Oh, the bills are all right,” said] ‘Many men have bené@fited b; Mr. Jarr, amiably. “Better pay groces| Work and are in a eigen and butcher than doctor bills.” ‘They have earned more “We've got doctor bills ‘to pay,| ever before in’ thetr/lives ‘ too,” replied Mrw. Jarr, “You forget | have married, Machinivte \ honeymoon--after ber manniage to steps toward the country. I walked you had the ‘flu’ and Willie had to had such fat wages; neither he another poet, Robert Haven Schauffler! until 9 o'clock that night and then silktis and Kmma had the earache | plumbers, carpenters, steambitten ‘ is leas than a year behind her. crept into a stall in a farmer's barn and" —— chauffeurs, cooks, Waltels or eae *A honeymoon js like heaven,” the) and lay me down to sleep. I slept all “Oh, well, we won't think about It] the day laborer. ‘These sien are sAAMaNE: 8 young and lovely author of “The| night until the break of day, and with |now.” sald Mr. Jarr, good naturedly.| ent; they can afford to marry t Boardwalk,” and “The Rose-Garden|tne sun came the farmer. He gave CARE SAS vas 3 ak a | “The children look fat and saucy.” | and a study Of the Meensés sued?” ‘ Husband” asserted. “It is a condition | me @ kick in the stall : | an Yea, tov saucy,” replied Mra. Jarr.| shows you that they do marry, ; and nota place. The average honey-| prey," he called, “what are you THE A ERIA 'f APARTMENT A |\2mma, you stop making faces at) “Tut the epoor selaried ; moon ought to be longer, not shorter. | going in my barn?” \ your brother and keep your hands off | wishes to marry ia unable (5 i it {8 an unparalleled opportunity for] 1 syst dropped in to have a sleep,” Scheel aaa iain | | tho bread.” | He makes barely exougt’ td:get : two lovers to become acquainted with |] replied, smilingly SOLVING “He \ “{ don't want any potatoes,” said! py himealf and be knows q ' | each other and to grow used to living) «41 right," he said, softening. | “I SOO i aa TRosLem | Courrant, 1020, ty The Vive Publluing Go, | MASLOF Wille, | “T can't eat Potatoes.” | would not be possible to divide i i together. don't mind, but I hope the polecats : fe DAT IRR | sola adits. jlurtoray Mien | "I won't eat potatoes if Willig] sum, ‘The old aaying. that, ‘t ; “However,” she quickly qualified, | giant pother you.” 1, Who composed the “Battle Hymn | doesn’t” piped the little girl fapee than one! Kaa & with a twinkle in the long brown) wywhat? 1 almost shouted. “Do! Republic"? | “Ag f was saying,” aid Mr. Jart.| iow ring to BHM. ‘ . j eyés which contrast so happily bbb you mean to say there are polecats | hat Miblical character slew bis; maintaining his cheerful air of OP- | Tne housthg oti) so her apple-blowom complexion, “if}\ this barn? nemies with the jaw of an ase? finivm—“as [ was saying, here We! 4 Lig factor in on br ved) | you really are bored by too close and | cy ies | | 4. To what country dees the Island are with the prettiest tume of the | tion. No sonstble fealp that : . bestader dea shy cae aba “1 thought barns wore for horses.” | [ot neibae Delon D om ot 2Ar coming, all hearty and apo. | ug 10 give ina teas wha tenn i . cuales z . He laughed, “Yer some greenhorn, | | . 4 saturated solution Of with nothing to trouble us that money . t cheer yourself by reflecting that you earl i r bccn ser i me water called in which 8 OBB | oc nit oure | nis er i A aaa cau ee r aing ” r f nes PIER AES, | ‘eserver : ularied man ts seldom equal to And are s¢ eee at hin mm, ibn Oi em need | AMUN nM OMe” mate 460 LAMM | How long is « chain used in land And we hive f ue °F | ing. saute, 4dhed ait wi fher hand, os | easuring ? that money could our vs ed tment house f is | srle! is | 7 ch y Is If you find yourseif more tn love than atl Se Neues ee | | | 6 How many mon are ona crloket yer, “and we haven't the mousy lo | 2, decidedly sorry for this s9) ever, during the moneymoon, what a| .N?! | problecwnlon onctpled 78 1¢¢ | m? 5 ae aried mun," concluded Mr, Hart il j “All right. Go to work | cent. of the waking hours of the aver 7. What ia the chemical solution | cure them with “ A rosy outlook for the futu bl | abt ete Iete aher devel at s believe the same conditions exivt in i ae | Pope ¢ tove| Tafterward learned the farmer had | age Gotham citizen. ‘The high price allied used to fix a plate v Oh, that's all right,” ald Mr. Jarr.| Vor) alee city, he Boston Maan | at Hat ape Bo pretee : Mrs, | four Unmarricd daughters and was|of milk and hams runs second and | t race do women bing | Passe bis plate for another helping | 420 License Bureau, I Know, el { ttories, “The Boardwalk," Mrs) ii tg take a chance and hire,all| third, respectively, and monopolizes | thoir feet to make them small? , | of the fumily steak. “My income tax wie Sohauffler has expressed beautifully : . | ‘ * | the same story, Of the tre 560 dns nog pet renga Spsgechals unmarried applicants for work. The | the remainin per cent, of his time. | | v created the character of the {js paid and a lot of people are wore | rage licenses Lusued im 1920 only PT and variously er 0 i : ; he current issue of Wlectrical {FE ‘ off than we are.” i ‘niet, | Youngest girl was twenty and half-| In t urrent issue ¢ ctrica | What country is ‘Tierra del of them were to men who Zave deg ar vie baal ey ale witled. Mer nose was always red and | Sxperimenter, under the ttle of “The | y “LE don't what comfort that ta| coupe tane fe Sek Ris oe } DAS OAd DiOKE Komen S08 Fue, Pw ered erik a Airship of To-Morrow,” is the of | 1 At ig the name of the lurgast to me," remarked Mrs. Jagr. odetipa slany be me whlch, {n thie generation, beats frus.| he Jaughed with a guffaw. All of by hie | ie bode? # ; é ,, | Professional men . i 1 inst the sn 4 emus of | ‘hiv I learned almowt immediately Pa NOG ATEN Oe Be tiaie BRpouDIy, 1 what State ia the 1 don't want any meat, muw. As L glanced over the frst 600 mar- pikted ne Hy ene caetas Git a sack of corn and fecd the | Ont present-day housing situa Jnorthern part of the United Stat eniffed the boy, “It's got fat on tt.” | iuce licenses of 1920 and soted tite i is and othor onl 5 a . fh ve i a j « t @ bal i jy | hoes.” ordered the farmer, 1 took the |''"" | ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S ‘Shame! And little Armantans and) ooo upations of the men I also noted re YON AVES: Weer neh wae With the Coney dsland resort | Russidins dying for tat!” cried his } edeymeons, a& well us long ona?” | corn and wended my way to a muddy QUESTIONS. | the cocupations of the girts they wert si lot, where I saw about a dozen pork. | Keeper fencing in the oosan, land- | we 2, $4 3, Hessians; | mother. to marry. In a few, vory few, amenm | 1 apked. neiditen abe nace ba | ends charging us $25 for a set of | 14, De # » James B. Bad I My kitty Hkew fat!” aatd the lttle ‘i By id “{ am!" she confessed. “Juliet was | hey now me and alll coms that wouldn't fit in a H ri in &, on Wii ; 1 read “none,” but in almost eede: fourteen, Romeo a little older. a 1| Kept away from me. And then along a} . eiageibeee Tene a 10, Capront, 34 irl, holding cut a piees Of Meat and case | found the young ladles Werw ow ae i ane , 7 ar leame the halt-wit case, the only remaining alternative ra abae OF Le ae tcon, [having the cat Jump for it stenogeaplers, operators, hatraress- Seibk that to-day we do most @ our |Cam? (Ne lew sexested s to get tho air. | _ Now, just for that.” aid M urists or deesamakerm of heavy fulling in love between the} ‘Heller ‘Shoe ‘ , The apartment house dirigiple| [SECTION 7 : perenne inlaid Beal uat ine to wager that in» ages of fourteen and seventoen, Tam} “Chop suey?” I asked jocularly. solven our problem. The trip OF DAG IBLE THE EVENING WORLD rete testis ins Out of these Deliv’ in first love; I don't Gutfaw, guffaw,” came from the f saeatnt APARTMENTS have any amine shortouke e8 a down Une » firm beliover ee Wie las Ad he | R-34, which successfully cros P QUIJA EDITOR ASKS ="! (Jobs, Add the comined ipeoumes 6B see @ roason in the world why third |é!rl iiler ‘Sooey’ and them hogs! atisntic trom England to America is| fees ems a Ty seatane. wuomanKer CE the wife and machinist or piwmb@r ) or eeventh or tenth love should be ba up to you. : sti fresh in our minds, Englana| ye th isidlipAgnes varies ae rol the iyosit sheap in the ¢ baits ‘ = ed ell 4 \y buavand and gue can eaally, ba how : : "There s no other way out Neiaig one peer | could ” at Columbus J rk meadows or the traction bur.) } ~— eve has rema ol ! ‘igh rents an ives are me preferable ty it. ere vores L and France have sinc uilt: many | . Saskia ‘ Could @ Man Get $! Haircuts ‘ nist J Machiniata, plume “ “But can many of us afford to|¥eliad “Sooey planes with @ ca capacity of | WVORt Fark: and the Batiery, 7) longue at Biaten lalaad all'tn the etme d Wear 30-Cent Collars if He nerally |t on we unt] torp are all weorlny elle akieie Rare paarry at that ago?” 1 argued, “Now add ‘pig, p's pig!" sang out| from thirty to fifty. peonia, They arc | KP the olty dark for sleeping yur- | day: Owned Stock Im the Milk Trust? 2 qyout deliva Pais CoRmeOR re ot Conroe ait ae ee “Ol, let's be brave about mar-|the ted nose pidge poses ajl dirigibles should be an-; No matter how luxuriously the | ern, Bo thoy wore little white collar baohe! va ny id nos luxuriously equipped. Carpets p'every- vit bachelors, with Lis q rae! pa bet ee Bgbmuttion, i yallad “Vecees coin ie. Bie” bad serie Y SIV IPP Y"| chored at night—end all tail lights! apartment airship mignt be fitted up) & TRY THIS ON ,-% Viilig slin baie “J salaries, To the young ley wo } “Let's be sports! it wa riend o! + Pig, pis, ! nines: ; deg Bis , Bere I he's eaten all his ta 1 P| stil] entertains such men iw the mviig rane, Joyco hile Who aaid that |the effect was marvellous, Tho hoge| Picture, dear readers, one of these| {Used Daytime oruises however, | the rates paid by aerial tenant ooul YQ Your A “| gamnot tell a ik, maw,” said |p inatend of Mippuis uae ete you must never stop dving a thing|came running and knocked me down. | dirigiblee developed along the apart-| YOUN be Permisetble. In thie way! not possibly be more than thowe now SS OUIA / Willie with the look of an angel on| the cellar or kitchen, whatenh you Wanted to do bkcauwe, Youlin getting the corn they transpied on| ment house idea of construction, with the children might eimpwe te Bronx | pald by ph echt Ww elt Tie daanneny eae Sheps erat eae cor afford it—instead, you Must i f . omnes EERE — v me , ‘outd COU dt Mort SO it and you will {me and poked me with thelr nosos,}an the modern facilities for comfort PARIS SUGAR PORTIONS. STERN DUTY. Pan lt mM Oe On Die ORTSRD AY eat find. “You “could afford it “after | During it all the red nove danced and | convenience and rvervation, *The| Food Controller Hoover said at @| Charles 12 Hugin was urging SHURA RID ARERR RAR father One ib te mo out aed earn, ned liviok ward!” He murried when te wae| yelled “Guitaw When I managed to| apartment house dirigible would have | Washington reception group of soldiers io keep wp ihol ahitdven in your ‘ ibine it with the caluried Mud twenty-one, his wife eighteen, and at|struggle to my feet 1 was @ BRK) a, opservation tower, wireless opera-| «Ww Ot aaa Rianiien ewe MEP insurance policies , . Mra, Jar t romain ac home wn thirty-one he was killed dn Renge Fro head to foot [ was a mass of eee Bune Hag eae ro . vat economize our food, or Wel nt Know it's hard,” he said ; I ure C he an we 4 Yous | pecte r fi the Fee olds but they'd bad their happiness mud ore, lounging and reading rooms, get as short as some of our allies across the 4,000,000 policies written during jaya g iow long will red= ye Bur Ur 3 must bear in Mar “Instead of snubbing or laughing ag| “Wome on to breakfast, stranger,” | movie theatrevand an electric elevator | rhe water, ecwen aver’ 8 000,000 hae lapwed | blooded =m forced to pay 30 wil) You “i hr si young lovers, parents shoukl make ft! yellxt the farmer, I deck d-eat,|quarantced to utop at the “ground”! “tn a restaurant over there a man| This shouldn't be, cents for 12'/2-cent collars ne a thing # you Jong in eater for them to marry, And they,|tmud or no mud, and started for the! moor The bar would be open ufter “Duty in always hard, boys. Yet| Soft Shirt, Manhattan—My Ouija stuwborry ake fo n nolor salaried man wit themafives, should be willing to take| farmhouse, As I came around a corn Me timit ned waid, when his coffee was brought jwe must do it A little lad entered «| joard tells me to wear soft oollars [m1 going te you from the tubly ost turn is eyes to, sweet e chance. Suppose they do have tolcri the red nove girl suddenly ap-|the three-mite limit had been paased.| | ‘Hey, there, waiter, where's my Dor-| general wiore the other day Ty common sense tata me the 30- and you hall not have a bit [sixteen who Is now if pigtal struggle, even to endure some hard-|peared and, with the unerning aim of | After whieh al! hands could strol!| tion of sugar? “Well, gon, what do you want to| ent collar manufacturers «6 muke And ¢he did. ‘Then sbe requested! So, after all, perhaps there is more at's part of the fun! If they/a big league pitcher, hit me in the on the promenade deck. Oh, la, la!’ gaid the waiter. ‘It|ouy to«iay—candy? sald the store. | then, too, Gertrude, the matd, to only eerve her hope for the seleried man in future pi e up . 1S are brave enough to follow their tn-|mouth with a decayed tomato. ‘All apartments would have an| Must Do that accursed fly again, mon-| keeper. “White Cottar Clerk"—Ou" pocket. | portion and Mr, Jars yours than for his resent atinct to be together, they are brave| ‘“Guffaw, guffaw!" aba yelled, sour. Pvery timo I serve a portion of| “'You bet I do,’ said the urchin,| hooks are bate: why not ‘et our! It couldn't well have been other. That all de pends "pon the m to succeed, “Merry Christmas!" garth and sky frontage. Business men | sugar, up he sneaks and swipes it''s | tut I've cot to buy soap! "fan necks be tikewise. Down with the| wisqganyway/ The children had eaten prices, wages and @ stare of IT am @ sontimentatist, (To be Continued.) ead women shoppers could commute Detroit Free ¥Wrancisco Chronicle. profiteersi itheug ali an; bour before, tunings, * arrerewecion hep a> 1 tenga tae “eee " He Bape is 5 sana ay mY DES Seer