Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-28
Anita Stewards
Talks to Girls
No. 5-Pruder-y and
Prudence.
By ANITA STEWART.

One of the most difficult things that
we girls ever have to do is 20 draw the
line between prudery and prudence. We
don't want to be little pr.ggy, prunes-
and-prisms girls. in a constant state OF
being shocked at nothing. Neither do we
want to be the sort of girl whom moth
ing shocks.
And Il isn't easy to strike the golden
mean between these two extremes. where
girl can be friendly with man with
out his trying to get familiar with her.
OF course every girl likes to have lots
of beaux. and to be popular with men.
she wants to be one OF the lucky ones
asked out to the theater, and to dinner.
and supper. and who always has plenty
of partners at a dance.
And only too often the girl who has
these good things is one of the free-and-
easy-sort who drinks and smokes with
men. and laughs when they tell question
able stories, and whose lips are free TO
any man who wants to kiss her.
This makes young girls think that II
they want to be admired they must be
bit giddy and sporty. and. above all.
that they mustn't keep a man at arms
length" as my grandmother used to say.
Why, I have even heard girls say that
unless you let a man kiss you when he
| brought you home from a party II was
truly good night" for him, for he'd
never see you any more.
Poor little dearsl
They can't see an inch beyond their
noses. or else they'd notice that while
men flock around this sort OF girl like
bees around a honey pot. as long as she
is young and pretty and amusing, they
don't marry her.
One by one they drop away. and when
you ask whom thoy have picked out for
wives you'll find out that every man
Jack of them has married some prirn
little Puritan OF a girl who made him
mind his manners when he was with
her.
Men are terribly unjust in this respect.
A man will use every argument and per-
suasion 10 induce young girl to drink
cocktails until she gets silly. and have a
contempt for her for doing II. He will
spend DAYS pleading with her to kiss
him, and be suspicious OF her II she
does.
No girl can tell by what a man says
70 her what he's really thinking. and
many a man who tempts girl Is praying
In his heart that she will have th'
strength and principle TO resist him.
The Bible says that one OF the mys
teries Of life that nobody can solve Il
''the way OF a man with maid" Blu
one thing Is certain. girls. and that 4
that deep down In his soul every mar
honors and respects the girl who respectl
herself. and who wraps her msidenlS
dignity and innocence about her so tina
n becornes an arnor that protects he
like a coat OF mail.
The girl who shrinks away at IA
miliar touch. whose cheeks flame red a
vulgar wit. and whose lips are kept sa
cred for the one great kiss-that Is tn
kind of girl that every man hopes 4
marry.
When you go 20 the florist. girls. IT.
the half open lily. it's the bud with tn
dew still upon IL. that you have TO pa
the highest for. The big ro-e that 4
, shop worn and that everybody has beef
handling you can buy for a song.
Nobody wants IL. and what's true o
, flowers is true OF girls. The suprem
7 earn OF girIhood is its reserve, Il
freshness, It's unsullled witness AM
when you trample these in the dust yo'
: make the mistake OF your life.
And as for the men who won't nav an
attention 70 girls with wham they eanno
Re fresh" you are lue' y 20 escape them