El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-17
Wanted---More Guardian Angels
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

"HE girl who has a good. sensible
mother, and who heeds that
/ mother. has a guardian angel
! sufficient for all earthly needs.
But there are girls whose mothers
/ are weak. inane, and lack judgment.
| though it be heresy to say it. And
| there are also girls whose mothers are
/ with the real angels.
For the girls who are mOtherless in
! either way, there should be more
guardian angels Relatives, good
/ friends teachers, the policemen and
| all the laws of the land are not suf-
ficient to keep such girls from de-
strCction when they once set their feet
that way.
They fall in love with the wrong
man. All who are interested in a girls
best interests argue. command, threat
en- and implOre. All of which does no
good. The girl, apt in the language OF
romance, believes she is constant,
and takes pride in the word.
There is a word not so pretty which
describes her better-"stubbOrn. So
stubborn is she that with a realization
of the pitfalls before her she walks
right into them rather than turn about
and admit he has been travelling
dangerous path.
Under this word stubborn" I would
class the writer of the following letter.
She comedies that all the warnings
her relatives give her are based on
fact, but continues Oh the path which
will lead TO ner sorrow.
Plenty Of Advice.
She asks SdVIcS. Are not her rela-
tives giving it TIL they are black IN
the face? Haven't they shouted them
selves hOarse with their warnings?
I keep company. she writes, with
a young man who is very kind to me.
He always dresses neatly and comes
to see me three times 4 week
have no father or mother. I live with
my older sister.
My folks say he is not truthful.
and that he is heavy drinker 1
have been told-6y friends. also. that
after he has left me at night he has
been seen coming cut IF saloons drunk
as can BE-. Half TIE time he does not
work, ana every enc says he can hard
~ support himself, much less a wife.
l have sen him OFTEN when he had
drink in him
Because | 60 with him, am on
bad terms win my brother and
brotherinlaw. and they don't speak
to me. 1 don't like to live that
way. am p, and my friend is "a. l
have a few dollars saved and they say
he is after my money. What would
you advise me to do2'
A girl deliberately plays with fire
and turns from the blaze to ask for
Do? What shall she do? Run from
the fire as fast as she cam There 7
can be no half way measures
The man isn't truthful He doesn't :
earn more than enough TO support |
himself and he gets drunk.
To offset all these vices, she I
enumerates but one virtue. He is 1
kind" TO her.
It would be more to her interest if (
she knew how to be kind to herself }
If she We're kind TO herself she would 4
know that no man who drinks can !
be kind to a girl by paying her at !
tentiOn.
The only way he can be kind is to 1
never 60 near her, or write.
The Only Way.
The only way he can be kind is to /
to any woman IS to let that woman /
remain in ignorance of his existence /
L he can't reform. in no other way |
can he be kind and he is not kind /
to the woman to whom he gives the /
task of reforming him. If he cut her
to death by inches he would be more !
humane.