The Washington herald., 1917-10-31

I down her every instinct and scrupIe
and principle against kissing him, and
the minute she does he will lose his
reverence for her as for somethins
utterly fine and delicate. II has been
his hand that has brushed the dew
Off OF the bud. but. none the less,
II Is henceforth a shattered rose for
him.
Girls should also bear in mind that
a wedding ring on the hand is worth
peck of them in the dim distance
. and that the girls who have the most
beaux generally get the fewest and
the poorest malleshifts OF husbands
A girl observes that those girls who
are free and easy in their manners,
who exact no sort Of respect from
men and permit men to indulge in
familiarities and take liberties with
them, girls who drink and smoke
with men. and listen to and tell on
coIored stories, girls who are good
sports. are what we call popular.
and are generally surrounded by a
horde OF men. Especially while they
are young and good looking, and full
OF high spirits.
But what the girl does not notice
is that this type of young girl very
seldom marries, and when she does
she almost invariably marries a
crooked stick who wasn't worth pick
ing up. The fast girl. the girl without
modesty or delicate womanly reserve
may be the kind of a girl that men
like to play with, but she isn't the
sort of a woman that they want for
wife and for the mother of their
children.
That is why you are so often sur
prised at the marriages that men
make. Men whom you have known
Of as gay FOUNDERS bob up with a
wife who is a Sunday school teacher.
Men who have been noted as chorus
girl chasers 20 to some country VII
lage and marry girls who never saw
a brighter light than a kerosene
lamp. They don't want the lips on
which a thousand kisses have rained.
They want the lips that have never
kissed at all.
And don't be misled. girls. into
making the mistake of believing that
because a man asks you TO kiss him
it is any indication Of his being In
love with you. A kiss is no guaran-
tee of affection. Judas betrayed his
Lord with a kiss, and every black
hearted traitor of a man who ever
betrayed the faith of an innocent
and trusting young girl began his
devils work in the same way with a
kiss.
The primrose path that leads TO
perdition for women is paved with
the kisses OF men. The thing that
no money could have hired them 10
do, that no arguments could have
persuaded them TO do. they have
been siSsed into doing. For IT is nc
flight OF the poets fancy when he
speaks about women being made
drunk on kisses. 1t is a literal fact
and that is why no girl is safe who
permits men to kiss her.
The girl who never touches intoXi-
eating liquors and who never kisses
men needs no other chaperon than
just those two things. She can wall
through the temptations of the world
unscathed. and wherever she goes she
is followed by the respect and admira-
ton of men.
AS for the young man who won't
come TO see a girl without she VIII
kiss him, she's better off lacking his
company than with IL. His cheap at
tentions come too high. They are not
worth the price.
Any way you look at il. promisCu-
Gus kissing is vulgar and common. un-
sanitary and disgusting. Good taste
and common sense alike demand its
abolition.
CCopyright, 1917. by t5- Wheeler Syndicate Incl