Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-27

Dear Cynthia am writing to you
in the hope that you may aid me in
some measure with problem with
which am struggling To give you the
principal facts in as few words as pos
siblc will be my cndeavor
Almost a year ago | resolved to stop
going with girls Perhaps this will seem
common resolution with young men
my age (niEeteen), but | could only see
in them mockeries of what girls should
be. Their only object seemed TO be
either to see how much they could get
fellow TO spend on them or else sec
what big fools they could make out of
fellows.
SO ] hid myself behind books of by
gone ages and tried to lose myself in
! the lore of ancient writer's. | could
| always get along with fellows and with
! older people, but the girls were to me
what n red sign is TO a bull. ! went to
shows by myself and to other such places
OF amusement. For physical pleasure /
played on football. basketball and base
ball teams. Football was my favorite,
for there ! could match my strength
against fellow being, aud my great
est delight was to see how hard | cou'f
throw an opponent. Not that | was
really cruel or vindictive, for I always
played cleanly and never took an ad-
vantage to which | was not eutitle
Still, ! am far from happy. When |
go to show | see other couples there
enjoying each Others society and | envy
| them from the bottom of my heart.
Now ! have decided to seek YOUR hcln
and also the help Of your readers. Am /
correct in my conclusions that all girls
are nothing but false faces? ! hope
that ] am wrong, but TO me it hardly
seems possible. for | have mixed in u
truly cosmopolitan society to see if in
any class, poor or rich, ] could find some
girl true to her ideals aud not like the
wavcring wind. Yet it may be NV fault
and there are some things that would
give rise to this impression. am not
handsome in the commonly accepted
sense Of the word. | am not of com
mandng height, ir fact, | am rather
short. ] do not dance and the biggest
| fault of all, i'll some girls eyes. is that
| do not hug and kiss girl every op-
portunity ] get. Perhaps from this
you think | am slow. If so. must
beg to correct this impression. for no
one enjoys good time more than | do.
The reason that | don't dance is not
because | object TO it, but rather because
| | have never had the opportunity to
learn. When | was at school ] was
considered one Of the best singers in
my frat" can also play several
string instruments passubly.
Now, Cynthia. can YOU tell me what
is the matter? 1t would seem the oucs.
tion is, "Ts the world wrong or am
IE' If any of YOU girl readers and
any one else who has had any similar
experience as mine could convince me
that J am wrong would be your dcbtc
! for life. ] am only hoping that ] am
'r"ong and it won't take much 10 con
vince me, for | desire to be convinced,
A RECLUSE.
| Ot course you are wrong, my friend
! The sooner YOU go and see some nice
girls and behave like a human being
instead of a silly boy the better for you
Nice girls do not wart men to hug
and kiss them. That kind of reserve
| is decidedly in your favor. They want
sensible, nice men friends.
II is not natural nor normal for n
Young man to net and talk aS you do.
The sooner you get over 1t the better.
| Try it.