The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-24
Is It Always the Girls Fault7 Are
the Men Always Free From Blame!
The Following Is the Opinion Of
One Girl.

Not long ago, listened to friend
OF mine and her brother Tom, fine
big fellow Of twenty-three, discussing
a young man named Feltus and the
way he had carried on with the lit
tie stenographer in his fathers Of
nee. Well, said my friend at last.
after all, IL man takes liberties 1t
is the girls fault. A girl can have
pretty much the behavior which she
wants Of man. (You bet she can in.
terpolated Tom. There Is Ethel Can
field, for instance, in the same office
for years, prettier and far more
attractive girl, and nothing of the
sort ever occurred with her. (You
bet 1t didn't! said Tom with final
ity.)
"You are quite right spoke up the
mother Of Tom and his sister: If a
girl behaves herself as she should,
and permits man no liberties, these
things do not happen"
Nine out of ten men, and nearly all
women, will, think, agree with this
point Of view.
Everybody speaks Of the girl al
lowing or permitting liberties. l
have never heard it said that man
allows himself or even permits these
things. The blame lies always with
the girl. The man 1t seems, will be
either what she requires Or inspires
him to be, or what she permits him
to be.
Mothers certainly. nearly always
take this view. Men nearly always
take 1t. If you want to see 1t up.
held authoritatively, you have only
to read Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies.
But, somebody will argue, the girl
likes and encourages the idea that 1t
is she who inspires men. Yes, l be-
lieve she does. confess to having
shameless pride in 1t myself when
was in my teens, though feel very
differently about it now that am
twenty.three. 1t fiattered and pleased
me to know that young lords Of crea
ton who happened to be in my life
we're. by their own insistence, SO de
pendent on me for inspiration, il
lent zest and meaning to life to know
that l held (and l really. did mind
you) the ideals of some three or fou
of them in the hollow of my eighteen
: year old hand.
II had a high headed, spirited young
cousin who used to say to me, I'm
sure I'd have to go to the devil, Jean
| II IL wasn't for you. Girls don't real
| ize, they simply don't realize, thu
power they have in mans life!'
H I am afraid a good many do realize
! it. and what is worse, a good man!
, take a certain pride in such power.
II Cheap and Tawdry Friendship
Il II ia in the modern business office
It seems to me, that the Relationship
between men and girls Is most II
4 need Of mending. Here is fertil
| soil for the sowing and fiourishing @
many cheap relationships. ] am no
speaking OF course, Of the superio
and high class OF offices, thong
these, too, are not always free fror
such things; l refer to the averas
large office. such as | myself am II
or large factories where hundreds
young men and young girls are DAN
thrown together more or less intin
ately. 1t is rare girl, nowaday
who has been out in the bushes
| world any length OF time who ma
not had a chance or seen her con
, panions have chance, for hirtatio
= and tawdry friendships with men.
Fl II YOU care to see the same thin
in concentrated essence, go TO hea
" any summer place Of amusemen
\ mr. take n summers evening walk
nearly any large city park. Ihei
Is plenty of 1t, too as a rule, in cou
try small towns.
used to think that these unwho'
: some relationships between men an
- girls were to be looked Tor ohly
. towns in some of the wilder parts
the west, and a good deal away iro
civilization. But l have seen the
within twenty miles of New YORK
Boston, while the South, though u'
like to admit it because come FRO
the South and love it dearly, aboun
- In such things.
An Ever Present Question
feel sure that the blame shou
- NOT he laid so much on any partic
lar locality, as on the idea-Ve
widespread-that it is the girl w
is to blame. The sons and brothe
hear it from us, and take their Gu
Adam, by all accounts, seems
MI ,o hoo, the first over the raj