Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-11
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Dear Cynthia have often wondered
II his column Is really and truly what
il is supposed to be, or II all those queS.
tons asked by loHelorh hlaldehs anu
cynical youths are only the hgneht. o,
some clever PERSONS imagination, ma
so. YOU see. the only wnv 10 find out
was to write something. But then comes
the question what to write IN IN"
Hrst Mace | don't suppose ! would ever
have read your column If had not
devoured III" paper from cover 10 cover
and hacl: again.
terrible mirtako-and I'm twenty wears
old. Not so very old. I'll admit. but i've
graduated from a first-class hlgh school
and nave been awarded "A diploma in
private secretary work by a ~well-known
b. G. And last. hut not least. I've been
se~lf-supportinG for two years. And now
what | am going TO tell you may prove
amusing. If not interesting, TO some OF
your readers.
though they are both out in the bust
ness world. | "A a most comfy and
pleasing home. and for the last fifteen
years. "" hay; had a car C1ot the same
one, cause it's not a Ford). But Tor
all that I'm discOntcnted. When was
about twelve years old ] decided that
I was in love with a rather good-looking
boy two years my senior. After he. was
~grSduated he went 70 Drexci To take a
course in chemistry. We were bonn
growing up, and he asked me to marry
him. That was nearly three years gao
and ] told him | wOuld--when he MADE
his fortune. The one thing he and ]
made a specially of was quarreling, but
it was all in the days work.
one day met another fellow, about
ten years my senior. and we became
great pals. We both were football crazy
and book mad, so when L.. got jealous
things began 10 get interesting.
The war broke out and the very first
week they both signed up. They went
To- camp together, and then they went
10 Texas together. 1t will he two years
In MAY since I've seen either one OF
them. Three months after they went
away man No. . asked me to marry
him, ! told him ! couldn't cause T.
the real reason, His education had beer
neglected and was afraid. OF what.
don't know. He Is the kind of fellow
that Worships a woman because of what
she stands for, and nothing on earth
would be too good for her. J like him
7 YES, like him too much as ] have
learned this last year, If ] marry hin
he will give me a good home Che makes
/, from 500 10 S125 "A week.. and he viii
treat me like a toy poodle. n playing
TO be loved and petted all the, time. o.
maybe, after all these months on thu
border as q cavalryman Che was no
lucky enough to get a%cross). he woul1
~eypect me TO 20 West, live on a rancl
> and ride the range with him.. l kind o
think I would like that'
1 L. Is a dreamer. Ut J. marry MIN
might spend my life in a stuffy kitchel
attached TO a two-story. siX-room house
Cooking for a crowd of youngsters: o
I I might live IN a palace-some day. ]
e has been in France over a year an
q I'm engaged TO him and every one know
e il. and vet last week another fello'
nronosed TO me. II was screamingl
q funny the way he did II. for / gathere
- the impression hat he "a fallen l
e love with my hair. Can you imagine
fellow asking a girl to marry him jus
" TO see her with her hair down? 1t
really my only beauty-a big bunch {
wavy chestnut brown.
This last proposal Is really of no in
d portance at all. except that IL starte
n me Thinking, I've always thought tn;
one was in love when one could M
nossibly live without the other. but the
n. are ali away and I'm still living an
NJ in the best OF health. so am I In Low,
% I wonder what some one else would {
in my place? oLWEN.
ID You are in a bad way, aren't 70,
So However. all is not lost. You would {
st we'll not 10 break with l.. unless yC
ip feel that you low man No. 2 so Z
n YOU cannot do without him. Otherwi
to wait tn l.. comes home n you CO
ne see him before breaking with him. W
ip may find that you love him, and "
he have given him your word. you know.
p But. my dear. II you find you do n
In love him break the engagemsnt. es ma
sTiags without love 10 almost q crime