The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-19
Father-Raiised Girl
BY ADA PATTERSON.

XEr z spend a great deal Of time
w and heave many furnace-like
slshs. about the zirl who lost her
mother early and who vss reared by
her father. but regrettablc though II
Ls, u IL not an irretrievaoie calamity
IL depends upon the kind OF mother
and father
broad -shouidered. vhi,e-haired
man "a, on tho verauoa Of his home
LOOKING Gown a lane OF trees. brow
aho Name coiOrol In their autumn
9Fcss. and talked OF h.s daughter. who
nsd recently married and oS othc.
I!ris who might or might no: become
heppuy married. His daughter wac
bride at twenty. and he had been fcr
eighteen years q vldowCr. He said:
I've told my daughter and all her
Girl friends In the village ths; when.
ever they become interested IA 4
foung fclior- and told me So would
Ven tneIn how 70 win him Men arc
the "a astost things IN the world Kind
ness 10 the key that opens t1oir
hearts. Sooner or later the kindness
combustion always works
Girls have such curiously wrong
ideas about how 20 win and hold 4
man. | see them following out those
IDEAS In this yillage-until J would Ike
10 open a school OF mstrimony here
and show them thci- mistakes The
girls arc not 10 bla me, FOR they a!c
mother-tought girls, and mothers tell
their daughters 10 keep a man guess
Ing, hence the foolish little things 90
one better and set about making q
man jealous. II Is q fatal mistake
While they are oeling the other chap
the right one. instead OF thrca ,enine
TO. blow out. his brains or the other
fellows. is thinking: The litilc idiot
IS crazy. about adrnirstlou. What An
escape I've had. II he never calls
again she thinks he IL sulking and
wearing out hts heart for her. and She
thinks on until she receives his we'd
ding cards and sees linked. with his
Tho name of melleT. but more
level headed cirl. She thought ne
wns breaking his heart for her while
he was shaking hands with himself
for being rid OF a fool.
Men are selhsh. II you will We're
they ought 20 be. And the truth Is
that they abhor selfish girl. Let me
tell you story Of my own experience
Vas drifting into contented
oachelorhood when one day favoFlte
and devoted aunt % mine lectured me
about getting married. She talked Of
marriage as n duty 20 myself. 10 my
family. and perhaps TO some nice EiTl
who might otherwise remain ur-
welded. loved this old aunt and re-
spected her opinion. I listened more
seriously than had ever listened be-
- - t.
When she finished gene7alitles and
saw that she had my ear she went
on: know just the girl for you
Charlie. She's pretty as pink. and
good as a saint and the best house
keeper and cook under nifty years OF
age in town. She would make you
very happy
Well aunt I answered. 81 would
he glad 20 meet her don't saw that
it would come TO. anything. but I
am interested In what you have said
and should like TO see her
THE next morning aunt sent FOR
her to come over and play and sing
FOR MS, She certainly made that old
fashioned organ laugh and weep. J
was full of admiration. I walked
home with her, and as we went 7
suggested that we make a sieigiing
party Of two to a ueigiboring town.
We stopped at a restaurant for
oysters. and after the stow ] said:
Miss Susie. do you object to
"she said: Indeed I do. Not that
It makes me Ill II doesn't. But
think II Is horrid nasty habit II
you want TO smoke you can walk
around the block
II said: oh no. Il isn't such a
necessity as that, and We start ed
home across the snow covered fields
As we neared iler home 7 said: Now
Miss Susie. II !s quite possible that
when I get home 10 my aunt's MAY
find teleerams awaiting me that vii