The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Cynthia
Grey's
Answers

Dear Miss Grey: A few days
ago somebody told me about
"the high moral standard Of
Tacoma" 1t may be true; l
hope it is. But l should like to
know just what they mean. l
have been here three months
and have met only one man
who is willing to be friend OF
mine.
Every other experience l have
had with men proved very dis
Agusting. For an evening en-
tertainment they wanted my
life. And one evening is all a
respectable girl can spend with
q Tacoma man; she is lucky to
get away in peace then.
Every other woman l know
here has told me her expert
ence has been the same. When
see all the women with es-
corts l wonder II 1t Is the first
night or how they succeeded in
holding one man a few weeks,
months or any indefinite length
of time, unless complying with
the wishes of the men.
Where are the good mothers
who raise their sons to have q
good time with some other
mothers daughters?
Why raise them good to be
thrown to the wolves of men?
Why not educate boys to the
same moral standard to protect
the women? 1t seems to be all
right, as long as it's some 9TH
er woman's daughter or some
other fellows sister.
How Is woman to handle
the situation? Is she forever
to be alone or struggle against
insults, and go with a different
fellow each time, or does 1t pay
to lead the life, as they say?
How do they ever reach the
point Of marriage? / hope you
will print this. would love to
have an explanation of the SIT
uation, or some advice on how
to handle the situation.
If there are any men who
respect any woman outside
their own families, where are
they? One-half 60 with other
women, but you could never
make their wives believe 1t.
But even at that. she is lucky
he married her. love Puget
Sound and would like to see the
condition in a different hight,
IL there are any to show me l
will appreciate 1t very much.
M. L.
La this really true?
IL so, why?
Are the men entirely to blame
Are girls deteriOrating and ar
tho men simply slipping one rum
lower on the ladder Of respecta
bility than the women all tn
time?
Is there but one way to Inn
prove this awful situation, IL 1t b
true-and is that by re-establisl,
ing the high, pure standard Of tn
carefully chaperoned girl of yes
terday?
What have readers to say Of
this question?
What's the answer?
Is this reader telling q truth o
maligning a whole city?
Mothers, fathers, men. women
this Is YOUR question.
Dear Miss Grey: Please pub.
lish this fudge recipe, as 1t
saves considerable sugar for
Uncle Sam, and very few peo-
pie know that fudge can be
made with the Karo syrup.
1-3 cups granulated sugar;
2-3 cup Karo; " cup milk; Q
tablespoons chocolate; butter
size of an egg; " teaspoon
vanilla. Cook the same as
usual. A HOOvERITE.
Dear Miss Grey: Perhaps a
few words from one who has
had a similar experience will
help the girl who signed her.
self Waiting" to solve her
problem. l was a girl who had
always been careful above the
average in my association with
young men and never a privi-
lege or familiarity was permit
ted any of them, until I fell
deeply in love with a young
man and a too intimate COM
partnership followed after we
had become engaged which led
to wrongdoing.
Miss Grey, the loss OF my own
self-respect turned me against
him until the thought Of mar
rage was almost a nightmare,
tho he cared for me just as