Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-30
HAVE a letter from a young
woman who asks me what she

Y HAVE q letter from a young
woman who asks me what she
- shall do with an Indifferent
The best and simplest way to dea'
with such a one is to break OFT all
dinlomatic relations with him, and
look about for a new Romeo, who
puts n,oro pep and ginger into his
wooing. Indifference is a disease
that a man is all too apt to q ;elop
after marriage, anyway, and to oe-
liberately marry man who Is al
ready afflicted with a chronic case
of it before marriage seems like 60
ing out of ones way TO CoU' dis
aster.
Perhaps, however, the Indifferent
sweetheart may have other quail
tja, about him that atone for his
lack of ardor, and that makes
seem worth while to the woman to
try to speed him up a little-which
sometimes can be done, and some
times can't, for the way of man
with a maid belongs to the category
of mysteries that human ingenuity
cannot fathom.
Generally speaking, when man
treats a woman he is fond of with
indifference it - the Woman'S fault
1t is because she has made door
mat with WELCOME on it Of her
self, and there is nothing in a door
mat to raise a thrill in a mans
breast, or pique his interest.
1t is a part of the eternal diff
ference between the sexes that man
wants to always be chasing the
woman he loves, while the woman
re-, 10 Cfo
caught. Men value most highly
the thing that they haven't got
Women gloat over the thing they
possess. A man wants another mans
Job, another mans house, and de-
spises his own. The mere fact that
a Job, or a house is her own glori-
fies it to a woman.
This temperamental difference be-
tween man and woman is especial
ly marked in the way in which they
regard each other. The mere fact
that a woman is beyond his reach
that she does not love him and
f1outs him, is her gre" est attrac-
ton to man, and makes him de-
tie. ,lined to win her.
is no uncommon thing or 4
man to marry a woman who tells
him frankly that she does not love
him, and is marrying him merely
for support, whereas a man rare
ly marries the women who has
dumbly worshiped him and prayed
God for ten years to send him tc
her for a husband, and whom h
knows he could marry any minute
he says the word.
On the other hand, patient devo-
ton nearly always captures a wom-
ans heart, and if her husband only
loves her enough it camouflages
every other fault and defect in he1
eyes.
It is because the woman wants
the man who wants her and con-
siders that the best bait with which
she can go afishing is to dangle her
heart before him, and because a
man desires most the woma' who
doesn't desire him, and is most
allured by some tid-bit whose flavor
he has not tasted, that woman han
die the problem of the Indifferent
man so badly.
Of course this is no new view OF
the subject. From time imme-
mortal women have been told that
no man chases a street car after he
has caught it, and that if they
throw themselves at mems heads
the men will duck, but. if they run
away from men the men will fol
low, If they have any interest in
them at all.
It also falls under their daily OBJ
servation that it is the girls who are
the craziest for attention from men