The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
DOLLY'S TOAST TO THE
 LITTLE WHITE DEBUTANTES
May All the World Look Rose Coored to You Miss Sweet Six teen, and May the Dancing Men On Your Programme Never Grow Less-A Popular Girl Pleads Her Own Attractons-In the Lmelight of Society.
 Her First Party
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

ward her. and yet they will break their neclSs to add to the fringe of black coats about some girl not half so pretty or
 witty-who already has so many men around her that you couldn't stir them with a stick,
 l No, you are wrong, it isn't the other GIRL who attracts the lot, it's the other MEN.
 There's something terribly attractive about crowd of men-to other men. There never was girl yet who started I off with two beaux, who couldn't get them by the three and fours, if she wanted l them.
 l "She isn't pretty, but she is so fasci- nating,'' the men explain when asked about her attractions. Fascinating? Pooh! | A man doesn't know a Fascinating Girl when he meets one in the middle of the road-but Popular Girl pleads her own attractions.
 l People are still writing to newspaper la l dies to ask along with Flow to Be Beau- I tiful," just how to make ones self the | most popular.
 l Popularity. let me say, might be Magic Cloak to wrap one's self in; it might be a Liquid Beautifer," to be | rubbed on and To, the change! l But it isn't.
 It is interesting to have lived beyond the Debutante Age, and to have been dis I illusioned. To realize that Popularity is not a quality that comes from ones self, but from-OTHERS!
 We can't make ourselves popular unless it is by our appreciation of other people!
 We like them, and they unable to resist the appeal. like us in return.
 The best Recipe for Popularity is just this
 Don't Waste any Affection on YOUR SELF; Pass it on quickly to Any One and Every One Else. and YOU'LL BE THE MOST POPULAR WOMAN IN TOWN" | The expression, "The Man Behind the Gun," might be transcribed into. "The l Woma.. Behind the SPOT LIGHT," for
 this little story.
 A Debutante is very like an actress; matters not how clever her Art is, nor how well she does things, the effect is lost
 unless the person behind the Spot Light knows his business, the Human Spot Light being the clever Mother or Aunt or Sister or Woman Friend-in the case of the Debutante. . l A certain woman I know, belle and a beauty in her day-happened to be vis- iting in her old home not many months l ago.
 l She was invited to beautiful Cotillon, l and when she entered the room she was at once surrounded by dozen men, eager to pay homeage to the belle of other days. Presently the woman, used to admira- tion and attention, in her glimpse of fa- miliar faces found one sweet, soft eyed,
 frightened little debutante sitting in cor ner alone.
 She asked who she was. | The men said they didn't know. l Presently one of the number said: | She is Mrs. So and Sos daughter; she gave coming out party last week
 The girls mother was bosom friend of the beautiful woman.
 She immediately began maneuvers; she | transferred her court to the little timid | girl sitting in the corner and presently all the men were lowing and saying how lovely she was and they were clamoring | for her dance programme, and failing all over themselves' to show her some atten- | tiOn. | And why?
 Merely because the Human Spot l Light" had been kind and had noticed the 1 little neglected girl, and by her cleverness and adroitness in matters social had lis | tened to her sayings and cleverly mis- quoted them to the men, passing them on as delicious witticisms. l A Beauty and Wit, was the Debutante, and all by the grace of an older Beauty 1 and Wit who was only-KIND!
 Five years from now. Miss sweet Six