Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-03-02

1t is, of course, silly to insist that a
young girl cannot receive visits, and
even small tokens of regard, like flow
ers, confectionery and books, from young
men toward whom she has no warmer
feeling than a friendly regard Young
men who are asked to dinner and other
entertainments by young women or
their parents, can properly recipro-
cate by such trifiing attentions.
But when a young man goes two or
three times a week to see a girl or
take her out. and the girl allows these
constant services, with smiles and ap-
parent satisfaction, he is quite justi-
fled in thinking that she has more
than merely friendly feeling for him.
The young man, too, needs warn
ing-but this article is designed for
the girls, and the advice to him is
another story"
1t may be & source of comfort to the
devoted youth to learn in the end that
he has been the means of. as it were,
bOlstering up the girls credit Until she
could secure the attentions of some
other young man whom she likes bet
ter. But as he is gradually retired
to the "outer circle and sees a rich
er or handsomer or more gifted man
receiving the favOrs to which he has
Oeen accustomed the Substitute
lover" as he might be termed, is like
ly to find the consciousness Of his past
usefulness a rather bitter husk.
A certain Serena to whom this mat
ter was broached, remarked iluminat-
ingly: Yes, Emma is all for Jack
Horner now, and poor Tom Perry, who
has been most faithful for the past
year or so, just has to sit around and
suck his thumbs. 1t is too bad-but
Jack is really nicer than Tom, in ever
so many ways-and you cant blame
Emma for trying to catch him.
"Oh, that is all right. But why did
she so long and in such marked ways
encourage Tom?"
"Why, don't you see, a girl has got
had not come around or anybody better
than Tom-Emma might have taken
Tom, in the end. You seem to think
that a girl always knows when she
is in love. Now, she really doesn't
If a fellow is kind and generous, and
pretty popular, a girl naturally likes
to have him wait on her-and she does
not know that she is capable of lik-
ing anybody any better till suddenly,
presto, the real hero appears, and her
| soul flies toward him. AS that deli
cious western Mrs. Malaprop says:
1t is Exit homo and, in this case, it
is in double sense
But she was so really pleased, ap-
! parently, with Tom and said such
sweet things to him, and looked up
! into his face with such soulful eyes
He certainly must have thought she
was in love with him. 1t was what
used to be called 20 years ago, 'des-
perate Irritation and when there is
a desperate Irritation, somebody gets
sipged and hurt"
ooh, it is all in the game" laughed
Serena. Emma is bright and pretty,
and Tom had good time with her
and she likes well enough to have him
come around and count one more in
filing up the parlors-and he will find
plenty of girls who are glad To- COM
fort him, SO, as the Irishman said:
Lave it goat thai"
AS this seems to be the platform
Of the girls, and probably of the boys
also, we commend it to the careful
perusal of the over-affectionate and
over. sensitive of each sex-especialiy
/ to those somewhat lacking In hnmor