The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-13

better than you deserve if that's the way
you are going to talk Miss Petunia
interrupted quickly. DO you know a full
grown man when you see one, Anna belle :?
Many gilded creature who lives on his
allowance from his father and never
strikes a lick of work in his life, could
take you out properly, supper, flowers,
taxi and all. but this young man showed
ms sense Another point, my dear child :
II your nose had not been so busy turn
lng itself up in an effort to DE Patrician,
your eyes would have detected a great
many delightful gentlemen and ladies
trolleying home Remember your father
| isn't able to afford a motor car for you
and your mother, and he's considered
very well off, too | do not drive a car
but always patronize the trolleys It's
very foolish of You to follow the lead
of lot of weak-spined people who pre-
tend that they can't walk now that au-
tomobiles have become the fashion,
Annebelle say that she was in for a
seige of it, and Miss Petunia. realizing
| that the opportunity she had been long
ing for for such long time to blow
| orr some steam on certain subjects she
| was 'daffy about had come, started
again.
| Take, for instance, your sister Jane.
| | know to my certain knowledge she re-
|
| last week, and she roundly criticizes the
donors for sending her chocolate bon
ponS Now, Jane always has been one
or my pets, as you know, and we u.s.
| ually agree on most subjects, but we had
real tilt on this one told her my
opinion about what is right and proper
| for young man to send a girl-books
, and howers-but as for throwing away
| @ bills on candy that girls don't appre-
ciate and always criticize, why it's simply
| silly, that's ALL"
What did young men send to girls in
| your day and time, Aunt Petunia ?''
asked Annabelle sharply.
Books and flowers" said she proudly.
Sometimes a complete set of Browning
or Longfellow's works or Tennyson, cost
ing often far more than a five-pound box
of candy but the books We're something
that were valuable and could be kept and
handed down for ages. They were al
ways standard books too, not drvvling
nonsense like the young people of today
read"
Annabelle chuckled and thought of her
"chum," who was telling her recently
that the presents she got from her beaux
through the year helped her wonderfully
in finding something to send out for
Christmas gifts. She knew Miss Pc
tunia would die if she heard that a girl
sent to somebody else gift that had been
presented to her.
She mildly hinted at such thing, and
Miss Petunia went up in the air. like
kite.
"Confesses, does she, that she traded
things that had been given her? That s
what I call grating good and proper.
Giving and receiving on birthdays and
holidays just for the joy of giving is
| beautiful. but a girl who would swap
a gift that she'd cared enough about
to accept ought not to be spoken to by
respectable people"
"Ohi this friend of mne," Annabelie
| said gaily, thinks it's all right, and she
doesn't mind trading at all. She gets
! so many presents from men that If they
| don't come across nearly every week she
calls them 'tightwads .
| Girls of today are very curious erea-
tures,' Miss Petunia declared, Il think
| it's a great pity that they don't adhere
| to the old ia shioned idea of not accepting a
| gift from a man. whom they don't eX-
| pect to marry Why, every man expects
when he gives a girl a valuable present
that it will be handed back to him again
| along '-the-girl when she becomes one
of his treasured possessions, and"
| But how much can girl accept from
man without incurring the danger of
becoming 'acquisitive?'" asked Anna
| belle.
1.-The only safe rule for the girl of to-
day is the rule of yesterday" said Miss
| Petunia "The rule of her mother who
drew the line at jewelry, gems and any
| thing that made the family eXclaim:
! - Mercy, What a lot that must have
cost, He might have known you couldn t
accept iti'