Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13


Girls, when some young fellow comes
up to you and asks you the greatest ques.
tion that you will ever be asked or called
upon TO answer, next to the salvation OF
your own soul, what will you say7 oh,
this is so sudden That is all n bluff
you have been waiting for Il all the
time.
SOME POINTED QUESTIONS
But, girls. never mind now get down
/ to facts When he asks you that great
est question the most important one that
any girl Is ever asked, next to the sal
! walton OF her soul, Just say: sit down
and let me ask you three questions.
| want to ask you these three questions and
| II I am satisfied with your answer It will
| determine my answer to your question
| Did you believe me to be virtuous when
| you came here to ask me to be your
| wife? oh, yes. I believed you to be
| vlrtuous. That's the reason 1 came here.
| Violets dipped In dew would be COW
| fodder compared to you The second
question: Have you as q young man
lived as you demand of me as a girl,
that I should have lived? The third
question: IF l. as a girl, had Nved and
done as YOU. as young man, and you
knew it, would you ask me to marry
you?'
They will line up and nine times out
of ten they will take the count. You can
line them up and know what | am talk
ing about and ] defy any man on Gods
earth to successfully contradict me- I
have the goods. The average young man
Is more particular about the company he
Keeps than the average girl I'll tell you
If he meets somebody on the street
whom he doesn't want to meet he will
duck Into the first open doorway and
avoid the publicity of meeting her. for
fear she might smile or give an indica-
tion that she had seen him somewhere
and sometime before that. Yet our So
called best girls keep company with
young men whose character would make
black mark on n piece of anthracite.
Their characters are foul and rotten and
damnable / like to see girl who has
good head choose right because 1t Is
right, never mnding the criticism. Choose
the good and be careful of her conduct,
careful Of good company and keep COM
pany with good young fellow. Don't go
with the fellow whose reputation Is bad.
Everybody knows 1t Is bad. and If you are
seen with him you will lose your reputation
as well, although your virtue Is intact and
they might as we'll take you out to the
graveyard and bury you when your repu-
tation Is gone. If man like that asks you
to go with him, say to him that If he will
live the way you want him to you will 20
with him. If you would take stand like
that there wouldn't be so many wrecks.
If our women and girls would take higher
stands and say, NO, no, we will not keep
company with YOU unless you live the way
want you to- there would be better men. |
A lot OF young women hold yourselves |
too cheaply. You are scared to death |
for fear you will be what the world ir- |
reverently calls IAN old maid"
A CASE IN ILLUSTRATION
Henry Clay Trumbull told me years !
ago when he was in Europe and in Lon
don he went to q theatre to see a man
who was going to give an exhibition of |
wild animals and serpents. He had a
Royal Bengal tiger and a Numidian lion, |
and introduced beast that seems to be |
least capable of being tanned, either by
kindness or brutality. a black panther.
He made him go through the various
motions, and after while a wire screen
was put down in front of the stage be-
tween the audience and the performer
and to the weird strains of an Oriental
band the man approached from the right
with a boa constructor 80 feet long. The
eyes of the serpent and the eyes of the
man met and the serpent quailed before
the man. Man was master there. At his
command the serpent went through vari-
Gus contOrtions and the man stepped to
the front of the stage and the serpent
wound himself round and round and
round the man until the man and SER
pent seemed as one. Its tongue shot out.
it's eyes dilated. The man gave a call,
but the audience thought that part of the
and that Mortified audience
sat there and heard bone after bone in
that mans body crack and break as the
reptile frightened its grasp upon his body,
and saw his body crushed before he
could be saved.