The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-24

had not had a chance before to ask
her how she was getting along.
We'll. how do you ike your work,
Helen?"
"Oh, like 1t very we'll"
She put her head on one side lit.
tie speculatively and unfolded her
napkin, then she looked up brightly
and laughed: "But, | tel you, Jean,
l think we should be told before we
go there. 1t would save us such a
lot of shocks. When you've been
brought up as / was, mean. Now
II anyone had ever told me that any
man would stand beside my chair
, and lay an affectionate hand on my
shoulder! Oh, well it was awfully fun.
ny, but dear mel"
But what on earth did you dol"
! said l..
Put him in his place!" she an.
swered with bright satisfaction.
But only think OF having to!
Put Him In His Place
The men | have just cited and
hundreds OF their type, can, of course
be put in their place, by certain fine,
strong types Of girls, and very easily
and successfully kept there; and
there are plenty Of Ethel Canhelds,
who never have the least thing of
this sort ever happen to them you
bet they dont!" to quote again my
friends typical young man brother,
TOM.
Again, there is hardly girl Of
fine ideas, | believe, who reads this,
who will not have the tendency TO
think that in the behavior of these
three girls whom l have cited, even
the last one, there must have been
something little bit wrong, II little
bit inviting, something Almost uncon.
sciously a tiny bit free and easy, or
surely the men would never have
gone so far. ut really does, after
all, depend on how girl behaves
herse'f," we say, there is no deny
ing that"
No; there Is no denying 1t. That
Is Just it. 1t does depend on the girl
generally. And there is precisely
the whole shame Of 1t, 1t seems to
me, or what should be the shame of
1t, to the men.
Then when l have gone so far rs
to say this, l feel like turning direct
to the men, and speaking straight to
them:
Are you going to keep right on,
wonder, as you have so long gone on
you young men, treating US girls to
tawdry behaviors or to gallant HON
age, according to the girl? Shall
you keep on laying the blame Or the
praise for your behavior on the weak
er sex? When your mothers repeal
the stupid Old phrase that girl car
have pretty much the sort OF behaV
icr that she wants of man are YOU
. going to continue to give her you
quick agreement: you bet she can!
You are performing the great lab
ors OF the world today, for there II
not anybody who honors your achieve
ments more than l do!-you who arr
spanning the great rivers, tunnelini
the great mountains summoning TIT
lighting to do your bidding" you whit
are weaving continent to continent
upbuilding new worlds, and conquer
) ing the unthinkable air, labors beside
= which those OF Hercules pale; sinai
you keep On coming and going MOI
ally at a girls bidding and too ofte'
= cheap and shallow girl at that?
}. viii you change colors like chs
0 meleon, being cheap with chea
e type OF woman and dlgnified and r.
e spectful with the dignifed? Becaus
e a cheap girl permits you hbertie'
t. will you take them; and because al
other denies you these, will you r.
o spect yourselves and her? When on
h says Come" will you come; an
l. Co" will you go? Will you continu
y to shirk your responsibility? Or wi
o YOU meet it-not only your own, br
hers a little perhaps; and protect he
If IL there is need-and there sometime
t is--against herself?
It The Blame OF the World
II IL any cheap liberties she has pc
mitted you to take were detailed heI
C. for the whole world to judge, va
a know. Of course, that by nearly a
4. men and women 1t is she, not yo
st who would be blamed, and who wou
e. suffer for them. Is this enduraple
n you, | wonder? You realize, su
h pose, that the real reason the wom'
Iy Is blamed and the man is not
a that the man is not thought to be !
lg sponsible, not really accountable,
a this relation. Men and women ma
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