The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-01

is not measured by ones ability to keep them amused. | But
 i That isn't answering the question.
 'At what age is woman most dan- gerous?"
 1 Personally
 | I think the most dangerous age is any where from to years old.
 When she's small creature of fluffy white skirts and soft pink arms that necklace themselves about a. man and hold him tight in her embrace. l When she's licensed by her long curls and her short socks to take all sorts of | liberty with an admirer. | When she can kiss him with entire pro- of his bald pate. and tuck her own shin ing head under his chin and listen to his | heart beat under his middle-aged neck | tie.
 | What other period touches this one? | When kisses are the small change she scatters along her daisy path. wreckless of their market value, given impartially to old men and young alike, to kittens soft and fuzzy, and pet puppies, and dirty faced rag dolls-all at the same time.
 Dangerous?
 ] When she's just as high as a mans heart-be he sitting or standing-for by some magic. of her own she manages to remain just tall enough to come right up l to that same heart. | She con lead him back into fairyland and restore his ancient belief in all things.
 | It's just around the corner, this fairy | land, from "The Shining Palace" she loves to tell you about. which must have been the original plan of all the plans for love in a cottage'-so romantic 1t is. l It's here the little lady keeps house | and loves each shining pot and kettle, and her own small pink-faced doll baby | in it's cradle-like a real woman allows her affections to become absorbed over l her own house and baby and surround ings.
 Here she introduces the crusty old bach elor uncle to "Princess Lily-Fingers" and '"rhe White Queen" and Alice and ''Hop-OMy Thumb and Sleeping Beauty and all the rest of the interest 1 ing people that latter-day ,hostesses would give worlds to be able to ''show. off, at their afternoon teas. | And then some day if you are not too dull witted, to want to sit and talk with her in her Molly Make Believe" house. she'll tell you her hearts secret Marry?
 | Why of course she Is going to marry doesn't every real nice girl marry at some time?
 | No. she hasn't "'zactly decided'' on the man, but she thinks it will be (don't tell human being now; promise faith fully) her daddy! | Yes, she declares wholesomely, that there are a dozen other men (would that other girls had the courage to make such an admission to explain their behavior she would like. to marry. for she loves them all, but for 'sho-nuff" husband. she'd rather have her own dear daddy. Dangerous?
 If little Miss O-How-Sweet, whose real name may be Caroline or Betsy or Mary Jane, has sobbed her small heart ont
 
 on your coat sleeve and tucked her head under your ear and put her rose,leafed lips close to your own, and told you that you are the very incest person in the world, the game, so far as older women are concerned, Is done! 5 She isn't going to marry you: oh. no, She's engaged to her daddy, yet she al- lows you to comfort her and love her a bit, and fatter her ladyship, and pre- sent her with big box of candy, but it's a memory. and oh such a Memory, tostake down into your declining years, The most dangerous age of woman? It's the charmed early years, when kisses and tears and endearments are the coin of her small realm.
 What man who has loved and been loved by dear little girl could ever give her up for great big, old, prosy