Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-26
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The eExpense
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BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

Young Bert writes me sadly about
the girl who won't go out with him
for an evening unless he entertains
her about $40 worth. If he takes
her to dinner and theater, and then
gets ready to walk home after the
performance, he finds another per-
formance on his hands. The girl
pouts and makes a terrible to-do.
She must taxi to a restaurant and
eat about 81 worth of fruit salad.
Otherwise the evenings a failure.
Bert cannot afford to entertain a
girl at the rate Of $40 an evening.
He makes $50 week and he'd like
to save a bit toward a future in
which he sees included an engage
ment ring and a home. But he
adores his Alice and his hopes for
a happy future are with her.
He's talked the matter over with
Miss Alice and she has laughingly
replied:
"If you can't afford to entertain
me, don't go out with me-"
wonder if Alice realizes what
she's doing. She's adding one to
the list of expensive" girls whose
charm makes men spend more than
they can afford for the evening of
enjoyment-and who cost men their
simple ideals of home and love.
Alice will want to marry some
day. Maybe it won't be Bert. But
possibly the man for whom she
cares will have known such another
young woman as she. And through
the girls extravagant demands he
will probably have acquired extrava-
giant habits and luxurious tastes, not
to mention the restless habit of
thinking nothing fun that isn't served
UP with paycheck attached.
Girls destroy more than mans
dreams when they show cold
blooded vampire taste for expensive
entertainment. They get MEN out
of simple habits and domestic tastes.
It's all pernicious circle.
Alice is destroying her own SIM
plicity of soul and fine taste for the
real joys of life. She's destroying
Bert's ideal of her-and ultimately
she Is likely to add to bis nature a
ieaven OF coarsensess and eynicism
and woridliness which viii make
things harder for the next girl who
crosses his path.
OF course, the man who marries
an "Alice" isn't likely to get a real
home or much domestic happiness
as his portion. He will find the
pleasure,loving wife slpvenly per-
son who lights up when the cleo
tricity goes on and who isn't fond
of turning on the gas range. He
brings that on himself, however.
when he persists in marrying girl
who can't have a good time unless
she and his money are both on the
60.
The man who can't entertain a
woman by taking her for walk or
talking over the little everyday things
Of life with her, had better not con-
tract to spend a lifetime with her.
For marriage isn't cabaret or a
round-trip to "all the good shows In
town"
It's a humdrum thing where two
who love can have lot of fun de-
Gliding whether the cats next bow
shall Be pink or blue, and where ham,
burger steak on an oilcloth in the |
kitchen on cooks night out is just |
as much fun as a steak minute on |
Fifth avenue any other night.
Should Be Congenial. |
Dear Miss Fairfax: A girl 26
years Of age who is considered good
looking and a man 40 years old, who |
Is neither handsome nor wealthy.
are In love with each other. AL
though they love each other dearly.
they fear to marry because Of the
great difference in their ages.
Please advise them what to co.
they have both agreed to act accord
ing to your advice. CONCERNED.
A girl Of 25 Is a woman. She
ought to be mature enough to find
many interests congenial with those
IF a man Is years her senior. After
Ill, a man Of 20 isn't grandfather
y person who wants nothing but to
lit by the fire and think Of younger,
happier days. you know!
A misunderstanding.
Dear Miss Fairfax: VIII you ad-
yise me as to who Is at fault in the
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