RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 28

RANDOM REMINDER

FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1)

A decent interval has elapsed, go now it can be toM —a confidential chat with those who are about to become fathen of the bride* for the first time will prove of inestimable ' benefit to many. The no* FOB if be is himself from a family of . reasonable size, will be familiar with the earnings ■ and goings ef the young men and young ladies who data the attention and affections of his children over a period of yean, and it -la not always easy to know in advance when a more Bottled state of affair* la about to develop.

FOB must not, for instance expect to have the news broken to him formally. Not any more, the shuffling feet of the eboeen swain, the pink and white eruptions preceding a request that beinay have the hand of his daughter in marriage. It ia a pity, really, tor when the business is considered as a whole, this used to be about the only opportunity FOB hgd of assuming a position of any significance whatsoever. He was able to book his thumbs to his vest, teeter gently to and fro on the balls of his feet, and give the question deep thought

But today the eogaftnant is snaouDOßd to FOB while he is haring a tiiave, er eating a pi&efi enteh. It to itot a inqy< par of FOB Ki tat ratine of gonwgMMi h <toed doesn’t see* to tora to have dene the United Nattona niueh teed. of Mtrice tor today, flnt, resist the tonptattai to regw the intended lawly Second, get tothebenk aMI see abeut an overdraft