Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-29
Letters From Young Men
Join in Chorus Tits a Great
Life if the BankroII Doesn't
Weaken"
BY FAY STEVENSON
Copyright, 1929

NEW YORK.-How Is the average
young man, earning a fair salary
and quite willing to spend reason
able portion Of it upon his girl
chums, going to live up to the pres
ent demands Of the average New
York girl?
This is a question which is both
ering more than one young mans
perfectly good young head. He may
be an Adonis, Lewis Carroll at
repartee and Beau Brummen COM
bined, but if he doesn't fling his dol
lars to right Of him and to left or
him the flapper unsquirrels her
mad money" and goes home alone,
"off of him for life"
Q Many letters from eligible young
men have come to the Evening
World asking just what a worth
while young man should do. But
perhaps the most comprehensive
letter, and one which represents
scores of, other men in the very same
boat, is expressed by the following
young man, who writes: 4
while everybody is discussing
the 'flapper' and her 1922 model
vocabulary, I wonder if you realize
that a really serious girl problem
confronts the young man in New
York today? Perhaps my own ex-
perience will help you to under
stand it. I know that my own case
is not an exception, because every
unmarried young man that [ know
is up against the same problem.
ct am twenty-four years old and
I have been living lin New York City
only year, 1 did my bit in the
war and am now trying, like thou
sands of other young men, to get
tce-hold on the business ladder.
ST came from a small city in New
England because New York pre-
scented bigger opportunities for me
in the line had studied. got my
job and am making good and have
already earned two raises
"Now, although q stranger I have
never been lonesome, because I am
a good mixer. I always got along
we'll both with fellows and with girls
in my home town and here I have al
ready made several good friends
among the young men I have met.
But when it comes to the New
York girls-wel1, I'm just on the
side lines looking in. It's the only
thing 1 can afford to do-just look
at themi
Where I came from a fellow
could enjoy the company OF girls
because their ideas were reasonable.
They entertained in their homes, had
parties, and, ifAthey preferred going
out for an evening, they were salts
fled with a movie and an occasional
show when there was good one in
town. If they were hungry after
ward, an inexpensive bite in res
taurant was all they expected. They
liked dancing, but liked it in the
home or at an occasional hop And
if they went around with fellow
it was because they liked him,
whether he was bankers son or d
bookkeeper.
"But here in New York it isn't
so much the fellow himself that
they consider as it is the amount OF
money he can spend on them. They
don't ask, DO enjoy his company
but, What kind of good time can
he show me?' If he's got his dollars
he needn't have any sense.
eff you suggest going to a show
they pick out one of the most ex-
pensive ones, an you're a piker if
you use the subway instead of a
taxi. If you suggest refreshment,
they know just where to steer you
to a place where ten-dollar bill
Is just a thin bridge between the
cover charge and the walters tip.
They want the cabaret and the jazz.
"My friends and 1 have talked this
thing over many times and we can't
find the answer. Maybe you can.
These girls undoubtedly hope to
marry some time-most Of them,
anyway. But they can't all marry