Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-25
BY Dorothy Dix


if she would like to settle down and
have a home of her own is in dill
emma. She has a sutton who comes
I'D to her ideal, but doesn't fire her
fancy. He is everything of which her
head approves, but he doesn't give
her palpitation of the heart every
time she catches a glimpse of him.
So the young woman is undecided
whether she should marry him o.
not, and she wants to know if affec'
ton can be cultivated, and if liking
and respect for man ever turns into
love.
Of course, Cupid is tricksy imp,
and there is no accounting for his vag-
aries. Nor can anybody prophesy
what he will do. Certainly we do not
always love the good and noble, whom
we should love, and we are often
drawn irresistibiIy toward those who
are unworthy of our affection
So much may be conceded to the
general contrariness of human nature
but it has always seemed to me that
there is no subject about which wo-
men are so i'll taught as love, and that
not few of the woes of the feminine
sex may be laid at the door of those
false prophets who preach fallac-
ious doctrine about it.
Every girl, for instance, is taught
that some day she will find her Fairy
Prince, and that he will be as beauti-
full as a dream, and that he will come
riding up on a milk white steed, AMI
that he will quote poetry by the yard
and WOO her in lovely, soulful Booth
Harrington language, and watt her up
into the regions of romance.
Fairy Prince Myth
It's too idotic to be true, but every
girl believes in the Fairy Prince jus,
as unquestionably at 25 as she believ
ed in Santa Claus at five, and this
faith ends onl y too often ia
one or two things. 1t causes her to
be an old maid, or else to make a
disastrous marriage.
If the girl is of fanciful turn OF
mind she goes about with her Fairy
Prince halo, fitting it on every maa
she meets, and she's just as apt to
slip it around the head of the first
good-looking scoundrel she meets as
anybody else. If. on the other hand,
a girl is short on imagination, she
keeps waiting and waiting for some
body that has the ear-marks of a
Fairy Prince to come along, until she
lets her manageable years slip by
and finds herself stranded in the des-
ert of spinsterhood
Any number of good men, men who
could have given her an honest, affec-
ton and the comforts of life, have
asked her to marry them, but they
didn't come on milk white steeds.
They arrived by trolley; they talke
plain everyday language instead Of
quoting poetry; they wore tweed in
stead of coats of mail or satin and
lace ruffles, and so she didn't recoT-
nize any of them as her Fairy Prince
Girls are also taught that when the
right man comes along they will pal
pitate and thrill, and have cold rig
ors, and that they will not be able to
eat or sleep for thinking of the ador-
ed one, and that every minute ava,
from him will be an almost insup
portable anguish. For these are the
accepted signs of being in love
Doesn't Recognize Love.
Many a girl refuses to marry tn,
man with whom she would spend j
happy and contented life becaus
when she searches her system for
these indications of love she doesn
find them, and she Is afraid to marry
without them
She's very fond of John and THINKS