GIRLS WHO MARRY.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, 1 September 1904, Page 456

GIRLS WHO MARRY.

fHE numberless pretty girls who do not marry must thank themselves or their circumstances. Now, don't run a-tilt, and say it must be the circumstances. Here is a conversation I heard the other day, between the Young Man — eligible, looks acceptable, etc., etc., and the

Old Married Man. Let me call them. Y. and 0., respectively. V. — " Heigh ho \" or something equivalent in man's peculiar vocabulary, " I'm just sick of things in New Zealand. 1 think it must be too small, too one-horsey." 0. laughed. " Tell you what's the matter with you, my boy. Let me see ! How old are you ?"

" Thirty-three !" " Ye gods ! and unmarried ! Well, get married right off/ V.-" So easily said ! But " 0. — " Have you the cheek to tell me there's no girl V " That's the bare fact/ o.—" What about Mary Shaw ?" " Nothing." " Thought you were cr — rather touched there." " No-no."

"Good-looking girl, Mary; bright, knows people, and so on." " Yes ; but she's just the kind of girl I wouldn't think of marrying." 0.-" "Why ?" ■ " Well, if it's only this. I wouldn't marry any of these girls who are always down on the wharves ; girls who ' love ' going ■on warships, who boast of being asked by an officer to see his cabin. No. I know they're right enough. But I like some one less cheap." That's all I heard. But it shows

how, in the eyes of marrying men, nice girls just throw away their chances. And it explains what had always puzzled me, why really pretty, attractive girls, who seem to have what they style *' a good time," remain season after season on the shelves. As to what marrying men do like in girls — well, another time we'll talk about that. Meantime, don't imagine that having a good time with butterfly men.

officers or what not, will improve your chances. A man's hint on that subject is worth taking.