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 handsome or plain. That is not of great importance. You probably keep yourself looking up to the standard of the young men of our day.

What have you to offer a wife? Well, let us say that you have good character. That is splendid. You have the right beginning for happiness. You are probably making a living. It is necessary to have money enough to live on. And it takes more for two than it does for one.

Now what do you want in a wife? If you will step this way I will show you a girl of the period.

This girl before you is good-looking. You will have to admit that. People on the street would turn around to get a good look at her. But I want to tell you that there are plenty of good looking girls.

This girl spends a lot of time on her looks. You can tell that from the careful and expensive way in which she is groomed and dressed. Her beauty parlor bill is large. She expects admiration, even though she seems to be indifferent to the gaze of the public. She is dressed up for the purpose of getting admiration.

Now that is perfectly all right, for every girl or woman should look her best at all times, and she is justified in parading before men so that they will see her good points. Now is her chance to get a husband. Girls must look their best. That is the way