JUDGE YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND BY HIS FATHER.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 2

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 father. That wifll decide you.'' said the girl in the Alice-blue hat. “Well, if I can't know my own mind,’’ replied the girl in the oystergray suit, “I don’t think a man’s father could help me.” “Yes, indeed, he could,” declared her companion, earnestly. “More than once I have been on the verge of matrimony until I met the man's father. It's “like father, like son,” let me tall 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 how that happy-go-lucky nature of her lover is going to develop. The spasmodic selfishness of the son she may see developed in the older man as a settled inconsiderateness and boorishness. If the head 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 he was very economical. I deceived myself into thinking that it 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 trait of economy in the son stood boldly out at the beginning of a hateful 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 in 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 in the slightest disorder, I renounced the son.

“If a girl find that 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 she may be certain that the carelessness with which the son breaks engagements with her is not because he is young, but 'because this trait of negligence is inherent in him. “On the other hand, 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 last always The sunny-natured fellow whose father is a cheerful helpful philosopher, is a treasure, and tho girl makes no mistake when she takes him quickly.