Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-12-09
THE GIRL INSURGENTS.
A Bachelor Girls Club Whose
Members Don't Want No Cheap
Men Around"
By Dorothy Dix.)

| small town in Indiana, where the girl:
have arisen as one woman. and are max
ing stand against the deadbeat beau,
According to reports from the seat OF
war, the young women of the town have
organized a Bachelor Girls Club, .
with constitution and bylaws directed
specifically against the Sunday night
caller and the young man who never
makes good
One of the iron bound rules of the
organization provides that no member
can accept the attentions of young
man to church ''unles he has accom-.
panied her, or some other member OF
the club, to a social function where the
cost of entertainment was not borne by
the hostess"
Another rule is that under no circum.
stances ''shall any momb,r of the clut
accept the attentions of that class OF
young mon who always show up on Sun.
day night. generally about supper time,
but who never hear of n theatre or any
entertainment where they will be called
upon to spend a dollar
Deadly attention is also called to the
young men and the double cross is to
be given thcm-who always take visit
ing girls out buggy riding and send
them boxes of candy, but who seem to
think that the home girls prefer to walk
and have no sweet teeth.
This Backlor Girls Club is declara-
tion of women's rights that meets q
long felt want, and it is to be hoped
that other girls in other places will fol
low the shining example it sets. 1t il
high time that girls should show some
independence in the matter of beaux,
and teach young men that it is an honor
and privilege to be permitted to visit
them and that, in the classic language
of the ragtime ditty. ''They Dom,
Want No Cheap Men Around"
One of the most pathetic and humili.
ating things on earth is the frantic and
senseless craving that the majority OF
young women have for the attentions
of men, and the servile efforts they
will make 10 get them. Girls set the
measure of each others success and
even their own. on the number of beaux
they have, and in order to have lot of
youths dangling after them there is nc
sort Of treatment, short of actual insult,
that they will not endure.
A girl may be pretty and dainty, but
she will stand for an uncouth boor be-
cause he is a man. She will work like
coal HEAVIER to entertain the dull and
silent; she will suffer a martyrdom
from the endless maunderings of the
senile; she will listen apparently en-.
raptured to the babbling of infants; she
will smile while the awkward trample
over her feet and tear off her skirts,
because they are men.
Look about you wherever you goat
the theatre, in restaurants, on the
street cars, wherever men and womer
are together, and it's the woman VIII,
is gurgiing and enthusing and making
all the effort to entertain and make tn,
occasion go, while the man sits up an.
suffers himself to have insense burned
before him and his lordly self diverted
1t is siekening spectacle.
Worse than that, girls show no prid
in their dealings with men. They ALLOW
a man to blow hot and to blow cold: I,
rush them now, and neglect them again
and when the man chooses to do tn
prodigal beau act and return to them
they go out with rejoicings to NEE
him and fall upon his neck and slay no
only the fatted calf in his honor, bu
set out ice cream and angels foo
before him.
/ Half of the girls have so little self
respect that when man condescend
to correspond with them they write tw
letters to his one and ten pages to hi
hastily serawied note. More, there ar
even girls who held themselves 8
cheaply that they call up men on tn
telephone and demand to know VIII
these men haven't been to see them
and entreat them to call.
OF course, the effect of all of this i
to lessen women's value in a man
sight and to make him think that he
doing a noble and philanthrophic &C
when he takes pity upon a young VIC
man and drops around to see her.
Why should he exert himself to pur
sue her when if he viii only wait sh
will chase him down? Why should h
spend his money on her taking her I
restaurants when she is so anxious 70
his society that she will tole him in wit
dinners and suppers if he won't com
lsny other way? Why should he tax