Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-04
OF INTEREST TO THE WOMEN

mer time when all the world is going
holidaying, for somehow it's one or
the peculiarities of the season that we
leave off the conventions with our fur
coats, and we all do things in the dog
days that we'd be shocked to death at
doing at Christmas.
But when you start out to have
good time in summer, girls. remem-
Der the tollgate that you'll find some
where on the road of pleasure. There's
no detour around that.
know it's hot in the city, and you
are tired and worn after long weary
day at work in store or office
The Enticing Call.
Nothing in the world would seem
more enticing to you than spin in
good automobile out into the country,
and dinner at a roadhouse out on a
terrace. Therefore it listens good
as Weber and Fields say, when your
employer says something about his
wife being away, and that when the
cats away the mice will play, and
invites you to be one of gay party
to motor down to some gayer resort.
Don't do it, girls. There's a toll
gate on that road of pleasure, and
many girl has been bankrupted for
life by the price she has paid for a
single automobile ride and shore
dinner and a bottle or two of cham
payne.
I know that for many life is dull
and monotonous, all work and no
play, and that this seems particu-
larly hard in the summer time when
you see more fortunate girls In gay
sport suits, starting off for long vaca-
tions that will be full of tennis and
| boating and dancing and the pleasures
that every girl Graves.
It's in moods like this when you
feel that fate hasn't given you a
square deal that girls do silly and
rash things. such as picking up, the
acquaintance of good looking chaps
who invite them to go to the
beaches with them. or to beer gar
dens or dance halls.
There's tollgate on that road, too.
Don't forget that. Chance acquaint-
ances are just as dangerous in August
as they are in December. and the
pleasure that you have to buy at the
cost of your self respect comes too
high. It's forth it.
It's jolly to throw conventions to
the winds in the summer. 1t appeals
to a girls sense of daring to wear au-
dacious bathing suits that startle the
beholder, and to sprawl around the
beach in undignified attitudes, and to
permit fanliliarities from men that
she bushes when she remembers 1t
later on.
Remember the tollgate on that road
girls. 1t never pays a girl to have a
good time at the sacrifice of her maid
emily modesty and reserve.
The Danger III the Air
Summer is the time of Irritation.
There's just something about green
trees and glistening water, whether
they are on a mountain trail or the
seashore. or in a park, there is some
thing about moonlight nights, whether
you are floating on a lake in a canoe
or sitting on a fight of boarding
house steps in the city.
There is something in a summer
night, whether you are strolling down
an asphalt street or a country lane,
that makes men and women sentimen-
tai and soft and mushV. That's when
a girl listens when she ought to shut
her ears when romance makes wrong
things seem right, and when she does
fool things when she most ought to
be wise.
It takes a strong and level-headed
girl to turn her back and to refuse to
take a sentimental stroll down the
road to love in summer when some
handsome youth invites her to walk
it hand in hand with him. But dom
do it, girls. unless you are very sure
that he is the right man, and that at
the end of the road there's a bona-fide
wedding certificate waiting for you.
Don't just for the passing pleasure
of the moment get involved in any
compromising and sentimental COM
plications that you may spend the
balance of your life repenting.
Remember the tollgate, where all
must pay on the sentimental road.
Never forget that for the pleasure of
loving and being loved woman pays the
highest price in the world.
Watch for the next in this attrac-
tive series it will appear soon on this