The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
WHEN THEGTRL HAS
MOST OF THE MONEY
The Path OF Love Is Full Of
Tborns.
By DORorHY DIX.


A gentle old matchmaker is much dis
in whom he is greatly interested have
had falling out and broken on their
engagement, and he wants to know how
he may reupite them
What conpIicates the situation is that
the girl is rich and the young man Is
poor and proud. and that keeps him from
urging on a marriage that would mean
pecuniary advantage to himself
He takes the hanghty attitude OF ac-
quiescing in her aloofness-a sort of
stsnd-of position that says as plainly as
words: ''If you don't want me as badly
as 1 want you, there's nothing doing in
the love line
This state OF affairs is enough to dis
courage any Cupid; but the only thing he
can do is to arrange an accidental meet
ing between the estranged sweethearts
and trust to love to do the rest.
If there's any genuine affection in their
hearts, they viii rush into each others
arms, and the girl VIII. sob out her lone
liness and despair on the second button
Of the mans waistcoat. and he viii caIi
himself a brute. and al the rights and
wrongs Of the case viii be settled IN a
kiss.
Afraid of Being MisunderstObd.
In this particular quarrel it would
seem that the man is at fault and that
the only reason he doesn't try TO make
up with the girl is because she is rich.
He is so afraid that he viii appear to be
trying to establish claim on her pocket
book that be is willing TO sacrifice her
and her maidenly modesty. He wants
all the advances to a reconciliation to
come from her, aHd he ignores the fact
that II is just az hun1iliating for a rich
girl as 1t is for poor girl to throw
herself at a mans, head.
Little Miss 7Croesus is rust the same
sort of a girl as is little Miss Poverty.
She is just as anxious to be loved for
herself alone. She is Just as eager TO
be coaxed and cajoled, and coerced by
her sweetheart. When she quarrels with
him she wants him to come and make
up with. her in the good old way by
telling her that he couldn't live without
her.
giA and is estranged from her no mat
ter for what cause, or whether she IL
rich or poor, II is his place to go to
her frankly and honestly and try to
straighten out the difficulty.
It is then up to her to accept the
olive branch or decline It. II she is
hurt past forgiveness, or mature re-
ldS COuNlnCeQ n6T Indl LlesI mar
riage would be mistake, or his poverty
and her money makes a barrier between
them, she has, at least. the opportunity
of saying so; and If it is merely some
little, silly misunderstanding that only
needs a woHd of explanation to clear
away, he gives her the golden chance
of securing their happiness.
Finance should Not Rule Love.
OF course. an exceptionally broad-
minded girl. or a woman OF mature
years, might make the first overtures of
peace to a supersensitive lover; but even
in such case a far-seeing woman would
argue that she would have little chance
of happiness with a man who let the
financial question dominate the love
problem.
Such a man would keep his feelings
spread all over the place so that II would
be impossible for his wife to move with
out stepping on them. If she inadvert-
entity said mine instead Of ours he
would go on into sullen grouches; II
she ever asserted the slightest financial
independence he. would have such hys-|
terics that she would have to groveI be-
fore him for week apologizing, and she
would generally have to handle him with
such velvet gloves that he wouldn't be
worth the trouble.
The only poor man that II is safe for
a rich girl to marry Is the kind who
doesn't care a rap about money, who
yourself and enjoy it I can make q
living, and I'm not thinking about the
money, but about you. and you are worth
ten million billions to me with a fortune
in the bank, or not second shirt waist
to your back