Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-01
"xxxx" Answers "a Young Man"

Dear Cynthia-May I answer tine
letter b. "A Young Man" please?
girls and women.
But when you speak Of American
girls saying-"You'll buy coat or
ring for me, won't you, dear In
sure you are not meaning the Kind OF
girls ! mean. You know. in my letter
reared girls that understand can b'
picked up" in any country but surel!
they cannot bo seriously confoundec
with tho "standard'
You must know as we'll az ] that nc
self-respecting girl who has had even
little proper training would suggest
that any fellow buy anything for her
suggest your buying things for them
they skin" you in some other way
And I hope they do. No fellow has
right TO encourage such girls by going
with them when there are NO many nice.
se,f-respecting girls lonesome for good
company. Ny whole sympathy is with
those girls. because I think II there
we're more real mothers there would
be no girls OF that type. Did IT ever
occur to you that the reason there Is
that type Of girl is due TO the fact that
you fellows make II so. II men didn't
any to be picked up. So ! hope from
the bottom Of my heart that every fel-
low who Is fool enough to 60 with that
typo will get feeced good and plenty.
Now It seems to me that a true
American chap would look up some nice
airl for company instead Of idling his
time away with girls who should be
discouraged in their light way OF living.
Now let's take UP the nice girls. thos"
who do not suggest to strange men that
they buy" things for them. The COLI
cIusion reached from my experience
with foreign women and girls is this:
In a very short time they get their
try our laws prohibit cruc! treatment
to wife from her husband, and then
they Will stand much less because Of
the n suppressed hunger for kindness
and freedom than our own American
girls. have heard ever SO many
married: Its different In this country
We don't have to stand 1t, and we
won't"
Only a few weeks ago a foreign born
young married woman was telling Inc
about her domestic troubles and said
that IN the "old country" a woman has
to keep her mouth closed. but not over
here. and that she was going to leave
her huHband. | explained TO her az
we'll as 7 could that sine was likely to
have a much worse time trying To got
along alone. since her husband ism,
TtdllV bdu man, only "nell ne drinks
sometimes She. like most foreign
sY!s, married for home Of her own.
They do not seem capable Of under
standing our illusion OF love. They
consider an illusion Of respect and duty
will answer. That. too makes II easier
for them to feel just In breaking
away for aorne provocation which they
either do not understand how to handl..
or becaus" they don't care TO. I he.
lleve that the fire Of unjust suppression
has been MnolGcring SC long in the
minds and hearts of the foreign wolnnn
that they are likely to explode from
much less provocation than our Amer.
can women, who have some conception.
Of what freedom means
No right-m7ded American girl OBJ
jects to washing The dishes and Keep
ing the home IN order" CAS- you say) nor
to doing anything else TO help her lus.
band. It's the ownership of body and
soul that some men like to make their
wives fear that the real American
girl will not stand.
Here are two nciGhbors Of mine
One Is from the "old country She
wanted to go to the picture show a few
days ago. Her husband said. NO you
cannot go because you were out yester-
day" Her work was all done UP and