Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-12
JUST WHAT IS A
DANGEROUS GIRL?
There Are Various Points of
View, According to the At
titude of the Judge

There never lived woman whose
heart would not flutter in delighted
response to a masculine voice eX-
claiming tenderIy, Cor bitterly or sad
ly or angrily-as the case might be)
You're dangerous grill"
To be told that she is dangerous
makes a girl feel like a choice COM
bination of caviar, dynamite, Havana
cigar, submarine Uboat, strawberry
shortcake in January, absinthe, auto
mobile cup race, two dollars pound
marrons and ticket to heaven, Ltd.
And so 1t is only natural and alto
| gether to be expected that the clever
new song, You're Dangerous
Girl" now being sung all over the
land, on the stage and off, should
make a tremendous hit. 1t tells a
Ireal human-nature story in sparkling
words set to a lifting melody. The
tune and swing of it bubble right UP
to you're lips-and the truth of ii
strikes right down to your heart.
Your eyes twinkle when your hear
"A DANGEROUS GIRL" And. your
,, busy brain goes a tip-toeing right
after the amusing philosophy of it.
"Danger"-says the Dictionary
Hazard, peril, exposure to injury
Dangerous girl" says Man-and
his eyes add Hazard in life's game
which l mean to win; injury to which
my heart has been exposed and which
can be cured only by more of the same
dear injuries from the same dangerous
| injurer"
Stimulating, effervescent, unusual
! precious and altogether desirable bit
of femininity-all of that and more
girl feels a man has called her when
! he tells her that she is dangerous. And
she has the youthifying and joyous
| feeling of being lovable and loved. Sc
all of life seems decidedly worth while
and her response to her clever wooer
is a giving of her best and sweetest.
| Old-fashioned folk of the guaranteed
narrow-minded school might think a
dangerous girl" and an unscrupulous
siren one and the same. But they are
/ very distant relatives!
! The Little Winner" of the DANCE
rous girl type is charming and desir
able to one mantle one she loves and
! does not propose to bore and tire by
| letting him win the race for her favor
| too soon.
The "Lorelei" of the siren type is a
/ deliberate and unscrupulouS lure to all
men. Her joy is to steal the husbands
| and lovers of other women, to swerve
men from the path of duty and to
conquer and make weaklings OF men
who are slaves to her power.
But the Dangerous Girl" of our
modern day-the girl of the lifting
melody which takes it's name from
| her stimulating charm-urges a man
on to be his strongest self and to dc
| his best deeds. For how else can he
be worthy of her?
| "The Dangerous Girl is the great
| prize of life's handicap race. She is
undesirable, she demands mans best
! She isn't to be won and cast aside; she
cannot be wooed today and forgotten
/ tomorrow; she has to be fought foT
with all a mans weapons of success
and understanding and love.
| she keeps a fellow guessing and
/ so she keeps him from settling down to
/ self-satisfied, snug, un-ambitious medi
| ocrity. She keeps him stimulated
and so he is in turn stimulating. She
asks the best and gives it and brings
/ it out. She offers the gift of unending
| interest and so of Eternal Youth 'tC
/ our age.
/ Here's to her-"The Dangerous Girl
who charms and eludes and colors life!
The wooing of her is a delight and the
winning of her a triumph. Some day
when she is a dear old gray-haired
grandmother she will still be sweet and
winsome enough to bring the glory OF
Youth Eternal to the singing heart OF
the man who is grandpa" to the
youngsters-but her Boy, her beloved
boy" to his sweetheart-wife- THE
DANGEROUS GIRL