Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-10-07
THE UNWRITTEN LAW?
Two Sides To All Stories
Here's The Other Side--An-
napOlis Bellies Chances
FOR MARRYING INTO NAVY
0ffenlimes Spoiled By The Queen Her.
self lf-"GoId Brick" Takes A Fall
Out OF The Other Side

Uut VI lue UInef Sl0e
/ Don't you know it is one of the iron
/ les of fate, particularly here in An
napolis, for a girl to devote the best
part of her girlish days to the enter
tainment of midshipmen, and then
/ have to beg for partner TO take her
to a June ball. And yet il is a fact.
/ To the writer's personal knowledge
I this is no rare thing. Every June
has seen il, and perhaps every coming
June will witness it. It can't be
that the midshipmsn is totally to
| blame.
For instance: A Youngster was
entertained by queen for two years.
At the hops SHE met a MILDLY who
had something more than a thin We
neer in his makeup. He talked well
and entertainingly and it wasn't all
about fudge, ,either.A few nights after
the new MILDLY came up to call upon
the girl and short time afterwa I'd
on the same night, Midshipman No.
came. He didn't like the new conner
and the result was that he left the
queen tohunt another A short time
afterward-less than two months
Miss Queen lost MILDLY No. !. She is
mIddyless yet. It was her own
fault. She was a moth and kept con-
stanty flying into the flame.
Let's say, for the sake of argu-
ment, that you have only one ambi-
tion, and that to go to the german
this year. Don't you know, after q
girl has entertained MILDLY for four
years and then gets cut out at the
finish it is cruel. The natives get to-
gether and even if they don't say any
thing much, they think lot. They all
agree that you have been thrown in
the discard. Now, if you could go to
that german with him, even if you
didn't expect to marry HIM, it would
60 long way toward footing the bill
for entertainment, wouldn't it?
Try this: When Mr.. MILDLY comes
up in few days and invites you
to hop. take him firmly but gently
in hand and have a heart to heart
talk with him. Tell him that YOU
are entertaining him this year solely
for the purpose of going to that
class german. Make him promise to
take you. If he promises we'll and
good. A good navy man doesn't break
promises. If he won't promise, tell
him to hunt another partner. Be-
lieve me, girls, it will do more good
than anything else l know. Don't
be afraid to tell your girl friends
to keep their hands off. Get togeth-
er and form a union of interests.
Let your interests be mutual, and
when one midshipman is turned
down by girl, and the other girls
know it, they'll come round again
and promise to be good.
And girls-a rat trap was never
know to run after a rat-but that's
the way TO catch 'em.
Treat Mr.. MILDLY as you would any
body else and you'll find him a man.
Love him for his sterling qualities
and not for bis dress suit filed with
brass buttons. Learn to love him
for his intelligence and he'll wake up
one of these days and find that some
of the sweetest girls in the world live
in Annapolis.
Pardon me for "butting" into your
love affairs, but it's all in the family.
Annapolis has great name in the
great outside world where | came
from, as the one town in the United
| States where a noble streak of honor
has been running since the immortal
Washington walked its streets; where
boys are sent to become men, and
where the flower of the mid-South
bloom, and I'm naturally sensitive to
anything that touches the town
| live in.
Outside we also learn Cupid has a
hard time living up to his reputation,
and that one girl in five hundred can
marry into the Navy. AS a result Cf
this unintentional slight upon An
napoiis girls, have taken the liberty
to entertain you through the Capital.
If it has interested you. thank the
editor for allowing it space. If 1t has
wounded you, forgive me, for there
isn't sting in bushel of it. If it
will help you / am amply repaid. So
much interest has been manifested
in the sketches that the editor has
been besieged with inquiries "Who
is Gold Brick?' 1t wouldn't do Won
q bit Of good to know, and take
Shakespeare's reminder "A rose by
any other name would smell as
sweet, :" and let me go down into your
scrapbook as GOLD BRICK