El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-28
Man On a PEDESTAL
II Girls WOuId Quit Man-Worshiping
and stand Together, Things
Would Change.
10y Beatrice Fairfax.
BY Beatrice Fairfa
WISH an the young women who

r WISH all the young women who are
on their knees before pedestals on
- which are perched callow youths,
with their faces over high collars
showing less Intelligence than that Of
"a new colt looking over a high-barred
fence, would arise from this attitude
OF worship long enough to read a let
ter which I have just received
The writer. a girl. gives the sigma
lure Of Rebellion an appropriate one
] wish that more girls were ready with
Just such signatures 1t would be a
good thing for the soul Of the self
satisfied occupant of the pedestal,
Don't you think" writes Rebellion
that the fellows are entirely too indie
pendent with the girls, and don't you
mink II IS the girls -fault2 Don't the
them. and isn't that the reasOnT'
It certainly is the reason And the girls
themselves are to blame.
A Bamfshed Stigma.
The stigma. that formerly attached to
that period Of certain uncertainty de-
Ecribed as ~old maid" has forever been
banished-
When a girl has grown older, which
means. IN more forcible terms. when
troubles have put better sense into her
head and she has learned there are
things IN life worth more than a cal
low youths approval she ceases strug-
Cling and ConfeSses her years with the
admission that she wouldn't change
pieces VIII any married woman she
knows But It is in the developing
stage that the mischief is done. 1t is
while she regards spinsterhoOd as the
greatest afflictiOn a woman can know
that she spends her time on her knees
in humble worship
Rebellion. adds: I am nearly IS and
am experiencing my first real love al
fair really wish I were a little girl
again and back in school never had
10 worry then as I do now. ] always
thought IT would be heavenly to be in
love but it isn't, for am very unhappy.
Sc metimes he acts as il he likes me
and at other times he is cold and in
different When 7 act Indifferent to
him he sulks, and the other girls say:
why do you act that Way2 Don't you
know he viii run away from your
Men are never as conscientious in
love as women are. and we bow down
and worship them for their meannessi
] wish We girls could get together and
take the men from their pedestSls.
where they certainly now reign. In
my own affair, it viii break my heart
TO lose my lover, and yet know that
cannot 60 on bowling down TO every
whirn and catering to all his pettish no
tons"
She wishes that all girls could get to-
Eether on this question. What a lot
OF wholesome snubbing the men would
receive If girls could get together on
an anti-pedestal PLATFORM Such a love
trust is more needed than many Of the
labor unions
II girls viii stand together. and make
one girls wrongs all their wrongs; If
they will be as loyal to the rules of
the love game as they are to the rules
of labor unions the idols viii crash
from their pedestals. and every girl viii
know more Of happiness and less of
humiliation
But no one girl can work this refor-
nation alone Young men love their
pedestaIs, and viii continue to occupy
them 50 long as any girl remains on her
knees