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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 160, 1 February 1902, Page 1

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AN IDEAL MARRIAGE OH7B. An Ideal Marriage Club is the latest of the American girl. The motif of tlifc Club is to prevent any of its maided members from falling in love with the yvrong mail. Every member .mustn therefore, submit the character of tHf. bad man who proposes to her to the Executive Committee of the Club, consistingmf the Treasurer, the Secretary, and the, _ President. These officials put the candidate through a rigid crossexamination, and he must give a satisfactory answer to such questions as tht following, or take his departure : ' “Do you drink, or smoke, or chew, or wear a silk hat in summer with £ blue serge suit, or lie in bad in the z&orh'ing ■” . . ' ' “ Do you earn enough to support f wife ? Do you write love-letters with | pencil ? How many cousins of the fenfiriine gender have you ? What becomejc of your temper when you lose you collar .fmtton'?" , If he can get safely through the ordca! of the questions, his general suitability ip then put fb the vote of the Club, who may still blackball him if they think be is a gay and specious deceiver.. But evefe supposing he emerges unscathed ftqm ’these trials, he must than submit to p year’s probation, to come up again foe examina'iou at the end of that time', when, if he ba< beengood in the interval, the decree may be made absolute. Tub idea altogether is worthy of the ofigltub jty and independence qf 0a girl of the period. SHE HAD KEPT HER WORD. Mr Martin fvas talking at the dinner able, in his usual qlevar m inner, about the inconsistency of women. “These ybqng ladies who profit thaifj they dre never going to marry 1” he broke out. •‘Everybody 306** they drill belie theft th* yery first oprortuniny.. ■’ t , ‘ .■ /■ He paused, jod ; eyidently that Mrs Martin would'oome to the rescue of her asx; but that discreet woman 1 . “Why r ; ..Maty 1 , ” ho eon tinned, vjfyoc rememberwaa.Mth yotu^ilf.--}.