Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-04
The Mushroom
Hero
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

letter
Il love man 70 whom I have
never been introduced. and l want him
to love me. I am % years of age. and
he Is 2S. I have written for his photo.
which he has sent and being an actor.
thought it was wanted to settle dis
pute which stated in my letter 10 him.
He has various admirers. hut i love
him, and SOMETHING MUST BE
DONE,'
NV dear girl. something will he done
and it viii be overwhelming and crush
ing when it is done. if YOU permit your
selves to indulge in mushroom, love
like this
The something that will be done is
what happens when road crusher rolls
over an obstacle in its path You are
deliberately throwing yourself in the
path Of a road crusher that will crush
out all your life. your hope, your faith.
your future when YOU indulge in love
for man whom you do not know. and
one whose calling depends in measure
for popular success in making matinee
worshpers of girls as silly as YOU
do not use that word silly" 10
give offense, but because it is q true
description of you. and one you should
recognize, and change, before, it is too
late
You are silly to give this man sec
ond thought and silly to = dangerous
I degree in writing to him and asking
him for his photograph
Undoubtedly the lines he speaks on
the stage are heroic. and you, poor
child, imagine that his life off the stage
is 3 counterpart
Paid For Being Hero.
You have confused the hero who gets
paid SO much q week for being hero
with the man who is hero when there
is no one to see, and none to applaud
You gaze on that noble makeup
countenance with reverence little
knowing that the face he wears be
fore an audience Is usually the OPP
posite of that he wears to those who
know him best
You have emptied out your poor tit
tie heart at his feet, and if acquaint-
ance with him resulted in it getting
bruised he would care no more than if
1t we're a football
He must not he too greatly con
demned for this. 1t is the class of wom-
en- to which l beg that YOU will not
belong that makes him what he is.
Notes of admiration and adulatlon
appeals for his photographs. homage
from women who are encouraged to
appear because their appearance swells
the box office receipts, all serve TO turn
a head that was never we'll fastened
on In the first place.
And the hero on the stage becomes
the villain in real life and il Is the
women who are 10 blame.
Something must be done" you say
Ny dear girl, let this be the some
thing and see to 1t that It is done, and
done promptly
Put thoughts of this man out of your
mind. Tear up his photograph. and if
you realize that you are not strong
enough to see him act and keep your
: head. don't go near him again.
There are men in your own circle of
friends worth million Of men like
hfm-men who are friends of your
brother. men of whom your father APP
proves If YOU must love some one.
pour out your affections on an object
worthy Of them
Don't Value Love Cheaply.
Don't value Your love SO cheaply that
you are ready to lay it a the feet of a
man who would laugh A IT, You don't
want to make Jest of the most sacred
of all emotions; yet do not doubt that
this man has laughed al YOU many
times.
Without doubt he has boosted Of his
many conauests, and taken as much
pride in showing notes from women to
his mana ger as clerk in store would
take in showing records of 4 big DAYS
sales
They make him popular they are his
stock in trade They enhance his value
TO the management because they mean
increased attendance. and if anything
he does increases the attendance there
is increased salary f aim
So far as sentimeut 10 concerned he
doesn't care anything more for The va
rious admirers" YOU speak of than for
so many pegs in the wall.
Don't cheaper Yourself by becoming
one of them Remember that every
one puts her own price tag on herself,
and that IT is your fault and your fault
alone. if YOURS is low
Just remember all the time. my dear,
and keen the thought close to YOU. that
some day the right man will come
along.
And when he comes It VIII not add
to his respect for YOU or to your hap
piness. to learn that you have gone
hanging around stage doors with your
heart an ynilr sleeve