The Washington herald., 1919-04-02

and his conduct towards her is COL
ored by the contempt that we all
feel for a common article.
You see. men know that they have
no tests and measures by which to
tell the worth OF a woman. but they
think that the woman herself must
know what she is worth. and so
they accept the price tag she writes
for herself on its face.
This is why, quite aside from any
sense of delicacy or modesty. girl
Is foolish TO permit any familiarities
from men. BY doing so she takes
herself out of the fine, desirable, just
beyond-reach class, and puts herself
down in the commonplace, everyday,
ordinary. take-me-or-leave-me s-you-
please class. And we all know which
class most fires our fancies.
Also the girl who permits familiari-
ties from men shows that she does
not know how TO play the game. She
ignores the basic fact that man is
, born huntsnan. and that the harder
his quarry is to catch the more ar
IDENTIFY does ne pursue it. There isn't
man living who wouldn't rather
risk mis- neck climbing a tree to get
the peach that hangs highest on 1t
! than to eat the one that falls into his
mouth.
| kiss the girl whose mouth is always
pursed up into kissing shape, and who
cuddles into his arms il he so much
as crooks his elbow. The girl he
dreams about kissing and folding to
his beating heart is the aloof. cold
maiden who is holding herself sacred
for the 'one man." and whose first
kiss will be a sacrament to love.
1t is pity that women have never
realized that things are valuable sem
! timentally just as they are practically.
according to their scarcity. IF dia-
monds were as plentiful as pebbles on
the seashore we should make roads
of them instead Of wearing them as
necklaces and rings.
IF girls could only get wise TO the
fact that the fewer endearments thev
1avished on men the more valua bic
they became in mems eyes. and that
the more that they made men nav for
them the more eager men would, he
TO raise the price, we should have
fewer sad tales Of young women
mourning faithless lovers who have
kissed and ridden away. and fewer
iilted ladies would be calling on the
courts to collect debt from Cupid
that they had not wit enough to coll
lect themselves
For 1t is. unhappily. only too true
that men have not the Unsuitable an
netite for sweets that women have,
woman can eat candy all day long
ana sun ask for more. and she can
fhrill az the en-thousandfh kiss lust
ias much as she did ut the first But
of fnf fnr
a mans stomach cries out for pickles
or sauerkraut, something to break tbe
everlasting monotony of the sweet
Likewise. kisses send no warm and
cold chills down his spine after the
third or fourth.
1t follows naturally, therefore, that
the man who has been fed up on
love. and satiated with kisses before
marriage. looks forward with no keen
relish to his wedding day ard a com
tinuance of the saccharine diet tbo+
has already palled upon him, and for
which he has no further appetite
pather he wants to break over the
fence into fresher fields and pastures
of new romance
This Is why the long engagement
is invariably disaster for the yo-
man. The man becoroes tired Of n
girls kisses and weary of her love
even before marriage Just knowing
that she is waiting for him and that
he can have her any old day he
chooses to name. and that In the end
he is doomed to marry her, takes all
the thrill and allurement out of mat
rimony and makes II dreaded fate
instead OF the end Of a great adven-
ture.
Therefore, girls. be chary of vou-
Kisses. Remember the fewer they are
the more valuable and never. never
enter into long engagement. Make
the man who wants you feel that he
must hustle to get YOU and he quick
about It.
fouu1ixht. uge. m the Whcaar aBudienta l,e. !,