Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

Keeping Baby Single {Continued from page 33) nothing at all. The kind of marriage rooted in the twin soils of love and respect. The kind of love that brings forth young, creates a home, labors, and is patient and long standing. The girls of today, Ben says, would laugh at pressed flowers, at lacy valentines, at fellows who come to call and depart at ten-thirty. Just as they have stripped the glamourous laces and ruffles from their young bodies, so have they stripped the lovely lace of mystery from love. Love, today, is sex, and a good time and the sky the limit — who cares ? Well, who does ? Certainly not the young men who may have for a victrola record what formerly they could have only by the blood of devotion. Davenport Damsels 'he girls of today come to call on a fellow whenever the spirit moves them. Far be it from them to wait for a fellow to call on them. And if one fellow is out, well, they have their address books and good memories, haven't they ? Ben has frequently come home to his Hollywood apartment and has found five or six damsels draped on his davenport consuming his refreshments, liquid and otherwise. These little-more-than-children do not hesitate to neck — and then some. The old days of waiting to kiss a chap until you are engaged to him — imagine your embarrassment if you could hear them razz that antiquated thought ! It makes for fun and gaiety, of course. When you are in the mood. There are loments in Ben's life when the sky being the limit is dimensionally amusing. But it makes for something else, too. It makes for Ben saying that he is afraid to marry. "•"or some of these girls wear, or should /ear, the sacred golden circlet on their loose young fingers. It makes Ben know that to respect the woman you marry comes before love in the order of importance. You have to je able to trust the partner of your joys md sorrows. And it is Ben's belief that Companionate Marriage will only serve to emphasize this state of affairs. "I think" he said, "that hundreds of young couples, sincerely in love and in earnest, often feel that they will chuck the whole business and go back to Mother. Especially during the first few years. Some trifling disagreement, lack of money, jpset stomach — anything that irritates them, makes them feel that they would like to end it then and there — if they could. \s marriage stands now, most of them can't very well. It usually involves considerable expense, probable alimony, a certain stigma of unpleasantness and cheating the Law. They decide that it's all too complicated, and after all, they're in, and 'iell, they might as well stick. They do stick— and they stick very well, very substantially and for the most part, pretty happily. Lots of fine marriages would go Dn the rocks during the early years if they could split on the easy basis of the Companionate. Bootlegging Sex "(Companionate marriage is bootlegging sex. And there is enough of that done without giving it the shadowy sanction of the law. "I believe that the pendulum will swing the other way before long. It's bound to. But if Companionate Marriage is common Free — this remarkable new rouge. See offer below. S& ef ore.5teiLr uiq. DO THIS Give yourself the Ingram treatment best suited to your skin. If your skin is dry, do this: Before retiring wash your face in warm water — just a little warmer than body temperature. Use a soft cloth and a small amount of good soap. Dry your face thoroughly with a soft towel. Then spread a thin coating of Ingram's Milkweed Cream evenly over the entire face. Leave this cream on all night. In the morning the dryness should be noticeably less. Before going out apply a little Ingram's Milkweed Cream. Wipe it off with a soft cloth before powdering. Just enough Ingram's will remain in your skin to protect it from the sun, wind and dust. InqmmbM Women in all parts of the world who realize the importance of a beautiful skin — stage beauties, screen stars, society leaders, write us that they have used only one cream — Ingram's Milkweed Cream — for ten — twenty years or more. Learn howto use Ingram' s Milkweed Cream. With each jar of Ingram's Milkweed Cream come full instructions. Women write us daily telling how they have improved their skins by following these instructions. So that you, too, may give your skin treatments basically right, go today to your druggist and buy a jar of Ingram's Milkweed Cream. 50c the jar — $1 size more economical —Theatrical size #1.75. Cream THERE IS BEAUTY IN EVERY JAR Let us send you FREE purse-size package of this remarkable new rouge — Ingram's American Blush Rouge, and an interesting booklet oil The Art of Rouging. Frederick F. Ingram Co., Est. 1885, 412 Tenth St., Detroit, Mich.; also Windsor, Ont., Canada. 95