El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-24
The Humility of Love
YounE Girl in the Mountains POurH
out Her Heart and Gets
an Answer.
-By Beatrice Fairfax -


{ 4 \ troubled heart.
Il am a young girl OF Is, and am IN
! love with a young man OF p who lives
( in the CITY. He loves me IN return and
/ mas asked me to marry him. / know
! that l am lust a mountain girl who lives
( in a little town. If ne takes me to the
/ city. where his folks are well-to-dO, l
/ know they viii be ashamed OF me, and
Z also OF him. Can you tell me how can
/ learn the city life and look and dress
/ ike city ladyI
! Mountain Girl"
Heaven forbid that / should do thing
so monstrOusi III by any thought or
! suggestion / ever influenced any little
I girl from the country TO learn city life
I and look and dress like a city lady"
I then may my punishment be swift and
| surel 1t could not be worse than my
( deserts.
She loves this man with a singleness
/ of purpose, and with her whole heart.
I She doesn't love him for what such an
I alliance may bring her in social position
or financial returns. She viii not give
! him a heart that Is divided with any
other man.
She's Like Mountain Air.
She is pure and sweet and wholesome,
ike the mountain air she has always
breathed, and her love bears the mark
Of every true wOman's love: Humility.
She does not question If he is good
enough for ,her, but if she is good enough
for him, and would make herself over to
match what she dreams might be his
ideals.
After she has lived in the city a while
she viii want to make him OFerl won
der If he appreciates the treasure he Is
winning
II - - Il . cs.s4- 1,5-H -
her, I would introduce her to every de-
eeptiOn beginning with the powder can
and rouge pot, and ending Chaos alone
knows where
1 would accompany her to q dress
maker, and assist IN tearing down every /
conception she has of decency and mod
esty. She must wear her skirts YulgaTly !
tight, and immodestly low
She must take off those sensible shoes !
that serve for purposes of comfort and 4
protection, and put on pumps and silk 4
hose that viii cause the eyes Of all men /
to follow her, that being the beginning /
ard end Of all ambition Of the Getty /
LADY,
1 would give her a hat that is a tor (
ture to the head under it, and a torment 1
to all who sit near, but that IS indispen- |
sable. because its grOtesqueness attracts. I
would. in brief, take the care IN out ]
fitting her that a sign painter observes /
in painting a eigaret sign: Anything to 4
catch the ewes of the men!
VIII His Folks Be Proud?
IJwonder when she has been made into 1
a Getty lady" and every charm Of nature /
has been tortured, suppressed, pinched, /
squeezed and painted into al that Is
hideous and unnatural. If 'fhis' folks will !
be proud Of her. If they are, then they 4
are the kind OF relations one Is better OF 4
for not knowing.
I wonder If the man who loves the /
mountain girl viii love her Just as much /
when she has become a victim Of the {
prevailing city life epidemic. 1 doubt it, /
and because I doubt it I want this little /
mountain girl to bring to her city home ]
so much Of the strength and purity of d
her native hills that the hypocrisy of 1
the unnatural city life viii never find /
room.
The history Of this great. old world 7
VIII prove that ever since man left his !
mark upon 1t. the rugged, the strong 4
and the upright have come from the 4
mountains. and the weak and shifting
and indecisiye have come from the
plains.
I do not want this little girl to become
contaminated by the lives Of the jewellers
in the plains. / want her to be always
honest and fearless and sincere. To be
natural, to be herself, to be grateful that
she was in the beginning, "just a noun
tain girl.'
For she has a heritage worth more
than any superficial knowledge of what
makes up a "city lady"