South Bend news-times., 1922-09-24
Mary and Horne

w " ' started something 5'o' Hs' interest. rest
W ing when you wrote and said
you wished you could see a man
sometime who really cared for a
real girl. and didn't want to spend
all his time running around after
little painted powder-puffs with
picked eyebrows and rouged lips and
not an idea in their heads or a sent
ment in their hearts
You like to dance you saId-some-
times-not all the time.
You like the theater-once in a
while-not every night.
You are fond OF books and you
like children and you like to cook
and you wish you could think that
some day you were going TO have
a nice comfy little home of your
own that you could take care OF
yourself and make cozy and happy
for the man you love and the man
who would love you.
Love you, not for some silly little
"vampish trick" not because you
were a swell dresser" not because
you were there with the come
back" out because you are real ard
honest, and true and loyal and de
pendable.
Wistful Letters.
II that letter of yours has been
answered by one man. it has been
answered by a thousand. From all
over the country they come. the
letters.
From cowboys. riding the lonely
range in the starlight and wishing
they knew you. Mary, Mary, or
somebody like you.
From miners. in little mountain
towns. from farmers. in the middle
west. from shoe clerks in New Eng
land. from travelling men IN Min
neeota, from railroad men in Cali
fornia, from stock men in Texas.
From old men who have been
married happily and want 10 try il
again-from mdddle-aged men who
have been married unhappily and
would like TO take another chance
from young men who've never been
married at all and who say thGt
marriage when they look at the
average girl. Some OF the letters
are well-written and correctly spell
ed. some are from men who are
uneducated. some are from poor
men and some-yes. quite & few OF
them-are from men who are more
than usually well-to-do, and these
last are the most wistful Of all
And they are all tired OF The little
powder-puff type They are afraid
OF her ard they don't trust her. she
is always after something. always
looking for money. or a new brace
let or n party. or a motor ride, or
something. anything at all. so she
can coax and hint and bully II out oi
some man, somehow-lo matter who
he Is.
Don't Be Discouraged.
And they all want 20 meet some
simple. straightforward. real girl
who'll help them 20 start out in Efs
and make real home for them ard
for-yes. they all want somebody
else. toO-every one OF theu-sonle
want a boy and some want a girl
hut they all want children and A
I home.
And Mary. Mary. II you never dit
anything else in your life. you We
| given hope and encouragement "a
a lot OF poor. lonesome. discourag.
/ cd disilIusioned men who have beer
worked" and fooled and exploited
until they were almost ready 10 be
lieve that there isn't a descent, VI,
selfish. real woman left in the world
Don't you be discouraged. Mar
Mary0keep right on exactly th'
way you are and the right sort o.
man viii find you. just as sure a.
! life IL lifei And when he does
you'n be mighty glad hat yAl
haven't wasted a whole lot OF you
| time on the wrong sort
As for you. John. are you quit
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