The San Francisco call., 1913-09-22
The Plight Of
S Freck1es s
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

4tT AN 2 years Of age writes a
1 girl who signs herself by the de-
scriptive name of .Freckles,'' a
name that speaks for itself, "and am
deeply in love with a young man six
years my junior with whom l have
kept company for the last five
months. He claims he loves me, but
when we attend a dance or party he
seems to pay more attention to the
younger girls Do you think he
really cares for me?"
Older women than Freekles, those
who have known more of loves
sweetness and more of its bitterness,
and to whom Man is no problem, but
something to be read as easily as a
printed page, win say wisely, "He is
beginning too soon"
That the man who loves woman
some years his senior begins at some
time to think he has wasted the bloom
of his youth on an "old woman" is
/ inevitable; she may be only few
years his senior, but the marks of
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her face and form than on his that he
feels justified in calling her old at
an age he will think is young when
he has reached it,
HE IS UNJUST
So prone is man to this injustice
that the wife who is the junior is
made to feef with the years that she
is too old for her husband The man
who is true In his thoughts, as well
as his actions, to the wife who has
grown old in his service. is the excep-
tion and not the rule
Freckles. who is 25 and woman
grown, loves a boy of 10. and he says
he loves her. He doesn't know what
pleasure a boy feels at having at
tracted the love OF woman who is
| older. It is the love of the boy for
his school teacher told over again,
and it is an injustice to him, as well
as to herself. to accept his stam-
mered expressions of admiration as
serious avowals.
Women do it. however, every day
Some because they love Love, and
will welcome his messenger though
he come in swaddling clothes. Others
because their charms attract only the
impulsive and impressionable. Others
i through motives that are mercenary.
for behind the young boy there stands
wealthy father, and others, like
Freckles, who love. taking no heed of
age. and discover to their cost some
day that this is matter of which
the man always takes heed, sooner
or later.
The boy Freckles loves is already
beginning to wander. When at
dance or party he pays more atten-
tion to the younger girls If he
does this in the first blush of his love.
it is dreary to contemplate what he
will do when that love has grown
cold. When Freckles, for instance. is
Il. and, struggling painfully against
wrinkles. double decked chin and
a waist that moves steadily up, her
husband will be 35, as young as he
ever was. And If the years have
brought him prosperity, awakened
his intelligence and quickened his
brain as they should. he is very much
better looking than he was when a
callow youth of 10.
NO LIMIT
My dear girl. I fear that then, IL
the tendencies of his youthful love
| making are criterion. he will not
| limit his gallantry to "the younger
girls when he casually meets them
at dance or a party. / am sorely
afraid, my dear. that like many men
he will forget your love, your devo-
| tion, your constancy, and the uptiring
efforts you have made all these years
to add to his comfort and further
his prosperity He will forget all
these In some young girl whose
smile Is directed at the bank account
you have helped to accumulate. Your
labor. your sacrifice. In those tragic
days will become to him more an
irritation than an obligation.
Give him up, Freckles. He is too
young for you. He is too young for
any woman. ! want you to know
the love of a MAN. / want you to
receive measure as full as you give
A mans heart to match your woman's
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