The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-15

dential. heart to heart talks with his
 loving spouse the morning after the naIi'
 while daughter Is placidly sleeping, try
 ing to get her beauty sleep. we Will say.
 For heavens sake,. John, don't ask me. Goodness knows am worn out tEy- ing to propitiate the different women know by giving them invitations for tneiF daughters to all the subscription dances Of which was patroness; by inviIing to countless dinners young men wno expect would, have the decency to ask Dorothea to dance with them; by slaving morning. noon and night to have the siri have some idea of her own attractions! No human being can imagine what shastly time spend night after night at these dances. when look across the
 room and see our daughter sitting there
 looking first bored, then cross. and fin- ally desperately unhappy. while on the other side of the room see Sallie Jones, without cent of money and for whom nothing has been done, surrounded by
 bevy of most eligible young men and
 looking as pretty as a picture in gown that not for a moment would l allow Dorothea to wear in our own home, let alone a ball room. '-.- "Dorothea is left out of all the smart
 and intimate little entertainments to which the successful girls is invited. She
 
 dance engaged for the cotillion before hand. and. in short, bitter as 1t is to me. have to own that our daughters social career is one long succession of mortifi- cation and annoyance. What am tell
 ing you. John, would not own to a3y
 one but you.'' John goes down town to his office irri-
 tated and annoyed. sore and tried, and takes some comfort Tn railing against gnrinfv hn hn1IAuuvrouo the fa1za- ness of 1t, etc. while Dorothea's mot..er
 does the same up town, pouring her; woes into the ears of her supposedly intimate friend. who, being intimate with many others in the same set, talks the matter over with the next intimate friends she meets. and consequently the report is spread far and wide. and adds still more to unhappy Dorothea's chances against what might be called social supremacy. It would be just as well for monsieur and madame to discuss the matter more sensibly than they have done. and not to lay the blame on their poor daughter. for in nine cases out of ten the fault lies with the parents who. by their constant
 their unfortunate American habit of nag ging, are rapidly converting sensible,
 fairly attractive girl into Q nervous. irri-
 table. self-conscious and most unattrac- tive young person.
 Let Dorothea go to a dance by herself, without the hideous consciousness that mother is watching from the other side
 to see with whom sh4 Is dancing and
 what she is doing, and Dorothea speed fly forgets herself, and, wonder of won ders, tastes for a moment of popularity that is to say. she may have partner, or even two, where ordinarily she has
 none. She will talk to other girls, and If she confdes in them will find many
 who will tell her:-- "The trouble with you is that you have no independence. Start in and be inde-
 pendent. Pay no attention to your moth
 CT and father. Go your own way, and,
 above all things. do anything and every
 thing to be just little conspicuous"
 Fast Set Favorite.
 Dorothea eagerly snatches at the temp
 tation. and the chances are ten to one
 that her second season finds her quite a
 favorfte among a a-rather fast set-the very people, probably, whom her mother
 and father have been Eapst anxious she
 should avoid. But is DorotlleA SO much
 to blame She has had Implanted ia her
 heart the knowledge that she must 1e
 success; that to fail means shame and disgrace, and, consequently, seeing a