The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-03
Meier FOR SALE
Three Things Which Are Not Put
or the Market.
Health, Happiness and Love lr'2os-
siois TO Acquire fer Price
Error Some Womer Make.

! "Dont cry. Anne. darling: he isn't
worth It. You were too kind and
generous to him."
Thus did mother endeaTor TO
soothe her daughter. who had JUST
been thrown over by the man on
whom she had spent the greater part
: Of her earnings during ten of the f0nr-
teen months they had been engaged
The circumstances which led up 70
!. her giving Linn money were excep-
: tional. hut Anne is by no means the
only orerlnvns girl who has foolishly
thought she could buy genuine lover.
, s. contributor to an eastern periodical
/. writes.
When the gentleman in question
first asked the gin to be his wife. he
| thought she was a dear little girl. who
! could earn a little. and. as he had a
soft iSb himself, the picture OF home
and wife seemed very alluring. But,
; by carelesSneSS. he lost his position.
! After a week or two of doing nothing.
he hinted that it was not fair to hold
! her to the engagement.
If she had fallen in Sith his sug-
! gestion and taken her freedom, in all
, probability he would soon have got
; some fresh work rather than lose her.
; But the poor. too-loving girl sener-
! ously agreed to keep him in necessi-
ties till he got place.
The average man might have be-
: stirred himself 10 repay this Kindness.
! but even the aforementioned men are
! apt to value at nothing that Which
! they get for nothing. The girl who
| gives freely OF her affection, and
throws in money with the bargain. is
j usually regarded as nothing.
i Not only so, but in supplying
{ man with money girl robs him of
the best part of his manhood and very
! often he turns against her just be-
cause she has so robbed him.
/ There are, of course some circum-
stances in which a girl may wisely
offer q little monetary assistance to
/ her sweetheart. but even then, in
! stead Of buying an extra supply of
affection from HIM, she is running the
risk of being forced TO receive i1nf-
tation love instead OF the genuine
article
! Take the true case Of young girl
who was not particularly pretty or
! attractive. but always had plenty Of
men to take her out. Yet never once
did she become engaged. Her friends
could not understand why, until it
! came out that she had always paid
! for her share of the outing, and kept
/ the various young fellows supplied
(; with cigarettes. ties, socks and other
! things dear to the heart Of men.
She was trying TO buy lover. but
! in reality was only paying heavy in
stallmentS on broken heart.
! Real men don't use the fraii Shoul-
! ders of woman in order to climb
life's ladder of success. They glory
| in feeling that they have done 1t all
! themselves. Even the worst Of men
will shrink when a girl first offers
! them money. but the taking of it is.
unfortunately, habit that is soon
acquired and very hard TO break.
| How often do we hear of lovers
swiniling their girls out of quite large
! sums of money and then leaving them
! in the lurch? Do we not wonder how
. on earth a girl can be so foolish as
to lend her savings? One need not
wonder, once one knews the trick.
: The man swindler who is out TO get
: money generally has some i'm hand.
/ which he uses IS bait. He will take
a girl out; if he finds she has any
! capital worth having, he begins to
splash his dollar or two about, and.
. without actually saying so. gives the
impression that he has plenty.
Then when she has grown fond Of
him. and he is sure of his power over
| her. he tells some plausible tale
either his firm has forgotten his quar-
! terly check. or the bank is closed. or
perhaps he will say he has just
bought house This last makes her
heart beat with hope.
"Oh, I can let you have some money.
f; Do let me lend you some says the
girl. thinking she will be endeare6 to
| him By her generosity, and also glad
| TO help the man she loves.
Much depends on how much he
! hopes to get eventually whether or
! not he accepts her first offer, but he
generally accepts loans from her until
! she has nothing left. and then he
| leaves her.
So much for the rogue man.
| Since the fellow who Is really worth
while Is also apt to become demoral-
lied by being financed by his sweet
heart, the very cruelesr thing she can
do Is either to offer money or encour-
age him to ask for il. The three
things we cannot buy are health, hap
pfnoSS and love