The Washington times., 1911-01-03
CUPID TURNS CRATER
WHEN LOVE NEEDS CASH
Modern Romeo Must Find Way to Purchase the Neces-
sary Luxuries When Miss Up-to-Date Juliet Per-
fE, mits Him to Bestow Affections Upon Her.

bought at the subway entrance, ~
means that for a week before, and
after, he dimes at a quick-lunch joint
on corned beef and. and that he
smokes stogtes instead of cigars and
presses his own trousers.
Yet Reginald on his $50 or $50 or $4(
per is just as much in love as II he
were millionaire, and just as crazy
over Guinevere as If he had tho COM
bined wealth of the Rockefellers and the
Morgans, and as anxious to win her
and so when she shows him that the
road to her fancy is by means Of gifts
and amusements, she puts the biggest
temptation that is possible before him
to spend more on her than he can af-
ford and run himself into debt, and even
to steal from his employer.
A jeweler once told me this little
story:
One day." he said, "a young fellow
that knew, a fine, intelligent. promis-
ing youth, came into my store to get
MS watch set. With him was pretty.
frivolous girl. always dressed beyond
her means, but with whom this boy was
desperately smitten. While l set the
boys watch the girl looked at the
things in the showcase, and finally
eled bracelet worth $500.
Il handed it to her and she slipped it
on her arm, and, turning to the boy,
saidi Would you give me this If
y
lightly and said, oh, of course. I'd
give you anything in the world you
wanted Well, them she said. 4 do
ask you You are joking he said,
was too much in love with her to have
the courage to tell her that he couldn't
afford it, and. wouldn't run himself
into debt for any woman.
81 tried to interfere, but she was
persistent, but in the end he wrote me
check for $3.50. and gave me a note for
the balance, and that night met him,
dead drunk for the first time in his life.
In little while the girl threw him over
for a man with real money. and the
poor fellow went to the bad.
The Moral.
Weak? Oh, of course; but what man
isn't weak in the. hands of the woman
he loves? And tell you that many a
young fellow starts in wrong Just be-
cause the girl he is in love with is like
the daughter of the horse leech. con-
crying, Give us more; give us
This story, as we'll as that Of the poor,
silly New Jersey boy who is rejecting
on it, has moral for both young men
and women.
For girls, it is this: Don't demand too
much of the man who is In love with
you. ION make MN SpenO money on
you that you know he cannot afford.
Don't for the sake Of having a diamond
engagement ring or being taken around
to places of amusement tempt him to
pilfer from the cash drawer or falsify
his accounts. There is a curse on the
love that does not make a man better,
instead of worse.
For young men, the moral OF the story
Is this: Don't let any woman inveigle
you into spending more upon her than
you can afford. The girl who has to be
wooed with money and the things that
money buys isn't worth having, and II
you marry her you will regret II to the
longest day you live. Don't jeopardize
your present and your future for a
whose measure of a man is the
size of his pocketbook and the ease with
which he can be held up.
The vampire is not a creature for
to initiate or men to marry.