Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-31
WINIFRED BLACKS
w SPECIAL ARTICLE
"MARY mi A HOME
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Well, Mary. Mary, you certainly
started something interesting wher
you wrote and said that you wished
you could see a man sometime who
really cared for a real girl, and didn't
want to spend oil his time running
around after little painted powder
puffs with picked eyebrows and rough
ed lips and not an idea in their heads
Or a sentiment in their hearts.
You like to dance you said-some.
times-not all the time.
You like the theater-once in g
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 coz
and happy for the man you love anC
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 Comeback" but
because you are real and honest, AND
true and loyal and dependable.
WistfuI Letters
If that letter of yours has been an
swered by one man. it has been an
swered by a thousand. From all over
the county 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 Minnesota.
from railroad men in California, from
stock men in Texas.
From old men who have been mar
ried happily and want to try it again
from middle-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 they don't even dare to think
of marriage when they look at the
average girl. Some of the letters are
well written and correctly spelled,
some are from men who are unedu-
Gated, some are from poor men and
scme-yes, quite q 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 and they don't trust her, she is
always after something, always look
ing for money. or q new bracelet, or a
party, or a motor ride, or something.
hint and bully it out of some man,
somehow-no matter who he is.
Don't Be Discouraged
And they all want to meet some sim
pie, straightforward, real girl, who'll
help them to start out in life and make
a real home for them and for-yes,
they all want somebody else, too
every one of them-some want a boy
and some wan a girl, but they all
want children and a home.
And Mary, Mary, if you never did
anything else in your life, you've given
hope and encouragement to a lot of
poor, lonesome, discouraged, disillu-
stoned men who have been worked
and fooled and exploited until they
were almost ready to believe that there
isn't a decent, unselfish, real woman
left in the world.
Don't you be discouraged, Mary,
Mary-keep right on exactly the way
you are and the right sort of man will
find you. just as sure as life is life!
And when he does, you'll be mighty
glad that you haven't wasted a whole
lot of -FOUR time on the wrong sort.
AS for you John, are you quite sure
that there is nothing in the way you
act that makes Mary, Mary. and the
rest of the girls like her think that
you don't really care for anything but
empty-headed vanity and silly affecta-
ton? Don't you pay a good deal of
attention now and then to the little
powder puffs and leave Mary, Mary
think ~-ituover3@ ~-s.
II you do, you can't blame her for
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