Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-16
Little Talks By
Beatrice FdirfaT


No, am not going to give thelr let
tersj they reflect too unlovely II pie
ture of human nature. Well agFee
they are tyoungi don't know their
minds or have made mistake-these
flgkle daughters OF Eve:
Well be generous. and let IL go Mt
that, fer, while the boys cover There
may not realize 1t Immediately they
are we'll lid Of gels who have not suf-
fleient character to remain true to a
premisei am speaking Of the in
consequent sisterhood who wrote me
letters saying they allowed them
selves to ,becoEne engaged to'a soldier,
or sailor, and now that he has gone.
they find themselves In love WITH
some one elses"
Absence Makes the Heart Grow FensleF
And the some one the fckle dam
eel is In love with Is too often none
other than herself she likes stten-
ton, fiattery, a good time and to run
about TO places of amusement. and
now that the man in uniform Is not
here to give 1t to her, she takes the
next applicant for her smiles, and 10
becomes a case of "Absence makes the
heart grew fender"-of the nearby
Stacker,
This young lady then becomes very
unhappy because she has Disagree
able letter to writei she must inform
Sammy or JJaok Tar that 1t mas ell
been a mistake. and that she is going
20 marry Mr. Reginald Stacker in Fix
weeks.
Then comes her postscript to me,
Dear Miss Fairfaxi Will you please
write me nice letter that I can copy
and send to Sammy in France-one
that will not make him feel .badlyT'
And IL wrote the sort OF letter she
deserves, it would be something like
thisi
Dear Sammy-You may not "esiize
now, when first confronted with the
evidence of my fickleness and general
lack OF balance, but really, you are
to be congratulated heartily.
when you first went away. was
so utterly wretched that cried all
the time, then forced myself TO take
interest In Mr.. Stacker. to- see IL /
could be less unhappy. Our acquaint-
ance has now ripened into love, and
we are to be married the latter part
of October
'I shall perhaps get tired of Regi-
nald Just as I got tired Of you. For
hckleness, like the wind, knows no
laws We are to have a quiet we'd
ding, and the best man is one OF the
handsomest men. 1 have ever seen.
KITTY"
This is the kind of letter should
enjoy sending to such girl when
she asks me to dash off few proxy
words that will help TO soften the
blow of losing her. OF course. any
soldier or sailor is well rid of her,
even though he may. not realize 4 in
the frat shock of getting her letter.
He is risking his life to protect her,
and the thought that she has proved
unworthy must be bitter. But let him
look at the other side 'of the ques-
tton{ Suppose he e6me back '.'tw he n
it's over, over there and married her.
What kind of q wife would such a
woman make7 Silly. vain and fool
fish, her chief interest in life Is to seek
admiration and have what she calls
"a good time" This she feels TO be
her inherent fight-aothing must
ever stand m the way Of that pre-
ordained good time"
She Is the kind of woman, who
wOuId so soyrfdines. and ieawe "a isick
child at home. She Is bound TO have
q newt. hat eEter pair Of $15a boots
whether the grocer is paid or not.
Like child, she reaches out for every
fright thing that comes along, And
she plays with IL till the next glitter
ing object attracts her attention.
EeVer Has Anything within Herself
Sammy or Jack Tar would find this
fickle type OF girl very uninterest-
ing companion when, he gets. back
from France. Belgium or Berlin. A
woman OF this sort neveT" has Any
thing. within herself, the things Fiat
4. a. go q
without, and they are such things as
well, might be elassed mot worth
while"
The me-S reading Of that most
binding of eremones-marTiaSe
seems to, change all of our sense of
values. and makes the things that
seemed paramount before trifiing aft
erward. Before marriage nothing
seemed TO matter but love, moonlight
and the rainbow world in which the
young lovers saunter hand IN hand.
AsteEward It is largely q question
Of the butcher, the Baker and the
candlestick maker" And the wife
who Is going to make life worth while
is not the vain, fickle., IDLE girl who
thinks only OF herself. but the re-
sourceful. capable woman who can
make both ends meet and put some-
thing by for rainy day.
Unless people are muItI7mlIlion-
aires, crown princes andrprofessIonal
beauties, thetseis precIo1s' little tims
for the moonlight, business after mar
rfage. The normal young couple have
their eyes on house they are buy
ing, and the triumph of the young
wife Is some dish or other that Is paAr
atable. economical and nourishing-
something that Will help to snove
along the balance at the bank against
the next payment.
The a11-important question Is rot
Whose precious are your" but ''IIow
much are we going to be able to cut
down the mortgageT They have
gone past the. moonlight notch in
their tide Of human affairs, and, they
are paying for the home--that Is go
ing to mean so much to all of them.
particularly the chIldren-ls now the
question that makes for fun and hap
piness.
Please do not take these remarks
to imply that people never make mis-
takes about their engagements. be-
cause they do sometimes, and the very
bravest thing under the efrsum-
stances IS 70 tell the other party and
take the consequences, whatever they
may be.
But such q course of action Is a
,far cry from the conduct of a xirl
who leads a soldier or a sailor to
make love to her. at such a time as
this. then iilts him as soon as phe
takes up with some Stacker unworthy
, to. black the uniformed mans Aoo,s.
! Thfa ia rnaauf IN ha q nIaa n~nf-.