The Washington times., 1914-05-12

To Girls

| am very much in love with Young
man. I do not see him very often. but
for while. He has said that he loved
: me- and although l believe this TO be true
| he often seems offended. and does not have
much to say. He will not speak be
! deal. and he also seems very very bashIul.
| What can l do? ANXIOUS.
wv HAT do you mean when you
! w say the young man you are
| e" ''in love- with stops and
talks to you when you
| meet?" Are you intimating that you
think you love a man with whom you
have nothing but slight speaking ac-
ouaintance? Does he stand on the
! curbstone and tell you that he loves
you? If so. | don't think there Is any
thing shy about him. unless he Is say
| of a sense of decency and of the fitness
! of things. My dear. If a man cares
| anything in the world about a woman,
! even enough to want to be her frisnd,
there are a thousand little things he
can do for her. He will seek her In
| her home and he certainly won't con-
Gne his attentions to being polite when
he meets her in the street. which. so
| far as can see, is the only thing your
| friend has done to make you think he
| loves you. As for you. If you think yod
are in love with this man, 1t just
shows that you don't know what love
means. Put the idea out of your head
and forget that there Is such a person
until he does something to show that
he feels a little more interest in you
than in the lamp post on the corner. -
Dear Annie Laurie:
! am a pretty girl of eighteen years
and em blessed with very beautiful
feet and ankles. When at home after
supper l take off my shoes and
stockings and spend the evenings
tarefooted. as / enjoy this very
much. There are times when some
one will come in for a few minutes
or a guest will come to spend the
evening. I always remain in the
room, as ! feel as much at ease as
If / had on the finest pumps with
silk hose. l have had many to ad-
mire and congratulate me on having
such nice feet.
Many girls are ashamed of their
feet. and censure me and my fad"
NV idea is that the foot has just as
good n right to appear in public as
the hand, as ii is formed very much
the same, and in most cases is more
delicate. II they were intended al
ways to appear in shoes, they surely
wouldn't have been created with as
much care as to shape and appear
ance Is 1t proper for me to appear
before company in my bare feet? .
Also is 1t right for me to appear at
a public bathing beach in short skirts
and barefooted? MISS p. B. +.
a RI: you real, Miss p. B. F.. or
~ are you Just joke? Can II be |
n possible that you really mean
any Of the queer things you
cay in your queer letter?
There's nothing disgraceful about q |
pretty foot and ankle--out who wants |
to be reminded of them every minute?
II you want to go barefooted in the |
house or on the street. 20 barefooted-i
and enjoy yourself. But don't expect ]
others to enjoy you.
People do not like queer" folks. and |
anyone who receives company in a |
pair Of bare feet-no matter how pretty !
those feet may be-is queer" and
there's no use trying to get around it.
II you were my little girl you would |
never-no ncver-com. into the room
and receive company in Your bare feet i
any more thln you would parade the |
main street OF your town in q night |
gown.
Go OF out and wade in the snowdrifts |
barefooted if you want 10. II you can
stand it, the rest of the world can.
Eut don't be cross when the rest of |
the world stops coming to see YOU. or !!
laughs at you or says that you are
queer"
AS to the bathing beach-that all de-
pcnds.
never could see any harm in going in |
swimming without shoes and stockings. !
And II I were n middle-aged woman |
with my position established, I'd do it
if | wanted to.
If l wers = young girl and nobody else |
went bathing barefooted. 1 would buy |
myself the prettest pair Of bathing !
shoes and stockings that money COULD
get. and 1 would wear them and be
happy.
Did you ever see rude boy tie a red
rag around chickens neck and set
that chicken out into the barnyard With
the rest of the hens and observe what
happened TO the chicken?
Don't tie the red rag of being pc
culiar" and different around YOUR
neck. little girl. unless you want to run
the risk OF being torn to pieces.