Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-06-16
'Aow is A YOUNG GIRL TO KNOW,

HOW Is r YOUNG GIRL 10 NNOWt
Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.)
Love him not for comely grace.
For his pleasing eye or face.
Nor for any outward part,
No! nor for a constant heart!
For these may fail"
1t always makes me smile when l
read those carefully prepared articles
10Y ''Th care young girls should ex-
ercise in choosing the right kind Of a
lover 1t reads we'll. and there Is q
world of good, sound common sense In
the signs that indicate he is to he
trusted, and those which should bo
taken as danger signals.
No wonder the girls who cut them
out paste them in their scrap books.
coming over them i'm secret. often find
| that signs fail. The goody, goody
young man, thought to be a paragon OF
virtue, has cut up some shocking caper
! that has set the town agog, while the
| rollicking fellow next door, who had
had Il dozen sweethearts without pro-
| posing marriage to any one of them.
had been seen coming out of nkl
places. smoking a cigar, which he could
a got AT a nearer cigar stand. spent
| his salary as soon as he earned 1T, was
rarely, If ever, under the family roof
tree when the curfew bell was supposed
to he ringing. refusing to be tied to hiS
| mothers apron strings. or to abide by
her choice of a wife for him, turned out
to be a jewel in the rough. a young
| man who turned over Il new leaf when
he met the right girl.
With examples that somehow have
got twisted awry how is the average
| girl, with no experience, to make an
accurate choice In selecting the good
young mar from his Indifferent fell
lows? Naturally, i'm his desire to make
a good impression, even the s~coundret
will cover up his faults most carefully.
He who has broken the most feminine
hearts will declare he has never yet
been in love nor seen the girl he could
care for until now His manner III
polished. He knows the art of flattery.
He has brought it down to a science
| (n his version of IT'D How Is a young
! girl who believes men say what they
mean and mean what they say to realize
| she Is becoming tangled up I'm the web
of a trifler when she feels her heart
throb faster at his approach, and the
conviction draws upon her slowly but
surely that he is becoming nearer and
dearer To her thar all others.
There is no chart by which she can
decipher his good qualities or short
comings. Her good common sense 10
not brought into play for the reason
that the deceptive man does not do
tina of which he knows full we'll h
'Sh Vase ~ S P-
and satisfy her in every word, act and
deed. He is "A ~consummate actor-play-
ing his part so we'll he disarms the
suspicion of ever the girl who is v
ing to be the most careful In choosing
wisely and for her best.
1t is not until after wedlock that
rascals throw off the mask they have
worn. What girl would willingly wed
"A man knowing that his owe for her
was but a pretense, that his heart WAS
as tickle AS April winds. That he
would deliberately refuse to support
her, throwing her like Il bruised flow
er, upon the pity OF her relatives or
her own efforts to exc out IA miserable
livelihood. 1t is because girls do not
know that their love barks become
shipwrecked. All the teaching and ex-
planning i'm the world are time lost
they will love the man who appeals to
them being blind to his faults. A
woman must travel far on the hard
road of experience to read mans heart
Alright but ever she is liable to err In
her judgment. No Wonder girls do not
know how to Judge w II good or
wrong WOOeI.