JUDGE YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND BY HIS FATHER.

Lake County Press, Issue 2136, 20 September 1906, Page 7

JUDGE YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND BY HIS FATHER.

"If you are in doubt whether you wish to marry a certain man or not go look at his fat he]-. That will decide you." said the girl in I lie Alice-blue hat.

"Well, if I can't know my own mind," replied the in the oystergray suit, "J don't think a man's father could help me." ■'Yes, indeed, he could," declared her companion, earnestly. "More than once J have heen on the verge of matrimony unlit] I met the man's father. It's "like father, like son," let me tell you, and if a girl only uses her observing powers she will know five minutes after she meets the father whether she wants to marry the son or not.

"If the father be an old codger she may be sure that the tendency to bore people which she has noticed in the son will develop later into all the characteristics of an old codger. If the father be a shiftless sort she may understand bow that happy-go-lucky nature of her lover is going to develop. The spasmodic selfishness of the son she may see developed ill 1 lie older man as a settled inconsiderateness and hoorishness. If thehead of the family browbeat his wife, and will not let her have a mind of her own she may shudder to think how the son will laugh and jeer at her opinions.

"I remember one fellow who appealed to me as just the right sort in every way, except that be was very economical. I deceived myself into thinking that if was only a very worthy, trait of saving until I met the father and heard him grumble because his wife did not make her hats instead of buying them. Then that little (.rait of economy in the son stood boldly out at the beginning of a baleful parsimony which would come later. And, my dear, you know a stingy man is one of the most abhorrent things on earth. Then there was a man whose most predominating characteristic was extreme care ill his dress, and his immaculate appearance quite won my heart. But when I discovered that his father was one of the worst sort of an old betty and turned the house, upside down if any of his precious belongings was ill the slightest disorder, 1 renounced the son.

"If a girl find lliat the father of her quarrelsome lover is a hateful, ugly-tempered old man she will stop regarding those quarrels as a mere incident of every courtship and look out for a peace-loving man. If the girl find the father a conceited old blowhard she may be certain that the tendency to brag in the son is to become more pronounced with years, instead of disappearing. If the father neglect his wife siie may be certain that the carelessness with which the son breaks engagements with her is not because he is voting, but because this trait of negligence is inherent in him.

"On the other baud, if she find the father is thoughtful and considerate a girl may assure; herself that the same traits in the son are not called forth by a desire to please her and gain her favour, but will lasi always The sunnv-nalured fellow whose father is a cheerful helpful philosopher, is a treasure, and the girl makes mi mistake when she takes him quickly.