Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-14
Daily We Discuss Our AT
fairs and Bring the Sad and
Gay Together for Sitting,
Asserting and Untangling.

you. I am not a child, as I have
passed my 23d birthday and have
been making my own living since /
was IS. l have no sisters and only
mother and one brother.
Now Miss Fairfax am not a raw
ing beauty and still am not so
beastly ugly that it would hurt any,
ones eyes to look at me. l am Just
common ordinary girl of the same
size and height and build of hun
dreds of other girls. The only
claims l have to good looks are an
unusual amount of what my brother
calls chestnut hair. Large dark blue
eyes, and two Of the deepest and
most persistent dimples that any
poor girl ever had wished on her.
No kidding about IT, Miss Fairfax, I
do hate those two dimples, for every
time / let my face relax, even in the
tlniest grin, those horrid dimples
pop out and every one makes some
comment on them. / do hate to at
tract attention and those little pests
are always on the job. Is there any
way of getting rid Of dimples, Miss
Fairfax? / am naturally happy and
jolly and smile most of the time so
simply must get rid of those
dimples or stop smiling and there
isn't so much joy in life that
could afford to look cross.
Now. Miss Fairfax, 1 am not a
''vamp" for arm not built
that way, being inclined more
to plumpness than to the
snakiness required of a vamp, but
just the same men seem to fall for
me. Now, that's slang, but 1t de-
scribes my sentiments to a finish.
What l want to know is how to keep
a man as a friend or a pal without
their having to fall in love with me
and spoil everything.
Now I am not altogether heartless
for have been and still am in love.
Was engaged to the man for over
year when along came one of those
little clinging baby dolls and / lost
my man. Well / am a good loser,
although 1t hurts me now as much
as 1t did four months ago when /
first found it out, / will say that
he was game to keep to his part of
the bargain, but don't you think I
did right to release him from his
promise when he didn't love me any
longer? Still / am not going around
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bowling for sympathy. I am having
one glorious time with my work all
day and a dance or a show at night
Mother says 1 am running my health
but il l don't go all the time the
longing and heartache that have
for him nearly drives me insane and
l do not want him to know how
much care. You will wonder why
1 don't tell mother. but you see, Miss
Fairfax, some of those little mothers
are too sympathetic and sympathy
and I do not get along very we'll to-
gether. A little sympathy makes a
baby of me and am a grown wom-
an. Now, Miss Fairfax, in my fever
ish search for forgetfulness there
have been three men whose lives
have been mixed up with mine.
None of them have known me before
that time. One is 20, the other two
are in the 30s. We got along
splendidly and were the best of pals.
The first one proposed marriage |
after three weeks. He was the old
est of the three. The second was
q discharged soldier He wanted
me to marry him at once and go |
home with him for his parents were |
old and wished to see him settled. |
The third is a Nebraska man, also |
q soldier. 1 was the very image of |
a little girl to whom he was engaged |
for two years and who died two |
weeks before the date set for the |
Now Miss Fairfax, each |
was sincere because am not |
strong for the promiscuous loving |
that so often leads up to a proposal. |
get along very nicely without any |
Of this hugging or kissing that seems |
to worry so many Of the younger |
girls and 1 have many good friends |
among the opposite sex. Miss Fair |
FAX, was totally unprepared for a |
proposal from any of those three |
men for we seemed to be just good |
friends and l very much enjoyed |
their friendship. Each proposal |
came as a bolt Of lightning from |
clear sky and each one hurt, for
honestly believe they meant what |
they said and do hate to hurt any
ones feelings, but they all know that
[ love someone else for I think 1t
but fair to tell them the reason why
| do not love any one Of them. But
each one has the same plea that he
can make me forget the man who
has ceased to love me II l but give
them q chance. Now, Miss Fairfax,
they have given me references in
their home towns and my brother,
who Is a lawyer, has looked them
all up. He can ind nothing against
any one of them so there is no ave-
nue. of escape in that direction. Now
what SHALL / do2 want them all
as friends and no more.
H.AN IL Ill