El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-23
Where the Mothers Fail
They Are Bad @Press Agents. Fer
Their Daughters Advertise
Them in Wrong Light.
Dorothy Dix -

OFTEN think that mothers

z OFTEN think that mothers are the
worst press agents on earth. and
- that they do far more to queer their
daughters fortune than they do TO
boost them.
Practically every woman who has
girls is on a still hunt for husbands
for them She wants to see them
married off and settled in homes Of
their own, with their shopping tickets
assured for life. To this end she at
tempts to present her daughters in
an attractive light TO the masculine
eye, ana 1t is the blUnders that she
MAKES IN this direction that are so
appalling and so pathetic for nine
times out Of 10 instead of casting q
rosy halo about the girl, mother sue
ceeds IN robbing her OF whatever
charms she has
For instance. the other day I was
at dinner given in honor OF a woman
and her very pretty and attractive
daughter There We're several delight
tul young men present who were Just
beginning to set their feet well planted
on the ladder OF success, and any one
Of whom would have been a good
match for the girls, for they were all
men with futures.
But mother calmly announced MA
bel told them all at home that she was
gong 10 New York in search of q
millionaire, and that no pikers need
apply Possibly the speech was in
tended as jest, but it was an ex-
preston or a desire so sOrdid. so mer-
cenarys so vulgar that it fell like
wet blanket over the entire com
pany, and push it aside as we might
none Of US could see the girl as any
Inlng but @ miserable little fortune
hunter, willing to sell herself 10 the
highest bidder
That lets US out. doesn't it2' one
or the young men said with a scarcely
yelled sheer to the Others men, we
can't qualify in the millionaire class
by about SS99.9S9-15"
Left Her Alone.
furtnermore, not one of the young
men who was invited to the dinner
TO meet this girl paid her the slight
est attention while she was in the
city, although they would have liked
herY and been nice to her, and made
her have good time had it not been
Tor her mothers assertion.
The man who has his own fortune
to make certainly does not want to
marry the daughter of woman who
mad not the courage to do her part IN
assisting her husband nor the affec-
Lon 10 make her feel that it is
privilege TO help bear the burdens
OF one you love, so the level headed
man, who wants a wife who viii be
a helpmate instead of a hindrance,
Keeps away from girls that have been
Another mother who is a hOodoo 20
her daughters is the woman who
orags about how helpless her daugh-
tiers are, and how tenderly she has
reared them. Il never let Mamie be
Weakened in the morning always
let ner sleep until 10 OF II o'clock
until she feels like getting up" Il
always keep everything that is un-
pleasant from Gladys She's such a
sensitive nature feel she must be
shielded" sadie couldn't sew on a
button to save her life. I always do
that for her She really doesn't know
how to hold a needle in her hand
"Gwendolyn has never put her foot
inside of the kitchen scarcely. She
couldn't boil water without scorching
It. don't want my daughters to
work as long as I can keep them
from it, Thereu be plenty OF time
Tor them to learn TO cook and sew
after they get married"
Insane Talk.
These are familiar utterances Of
mothers with daughters that they are