Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-29

sideration that he lost his beauty
sleep. But every time you tell
girl that you are sleepy and tired
and want to go home, and that q
pillow would look better to you than
ANYTHING else on earth, she thinks
YOU are a sissy, and tells you so,
and so you have to pinch yourseh
awake and go on"
Consider the future of these boys,
girls. There is some gray matter
under your bobbed hair, and a heart
somewhere in that little flapper
breast of yours, and you Wouldn
like to have it on your conscience
that you had ruined a mans life and
wrecked a promising career. Yet
that is exactly what you are doing
when you are keeping boy out all
night, playing about with you.
He goes to his business loggy with
fatigue. without an ounce of pep, or
energy in him. His brain is dull and
stupid from lack of sleep. His nerves
are frazzled to the breaking point,
and he is irritable and hard to get
along with. He is late at office or
store, and practically worthless after
he gets there, and if he doesn't lose
his lob altogether, he drifts into
the class of the also-rans in business
who are slated for firing and not for
advancement.
If YOU take \the men at the top
in any city-the big professional
men, the merchant princes, the great
manufacturers, the rich bankers,
YOU will not find that a single one
of them ran around with girls who
danced until 3 o'clock in the morn
ing and then went to dairy lunch
places for breakfast. Their sweet
hearts sent them home at IL o'clock,
with the result that instead Of going
to work with WORKOUT bodies and
added brains, they tackled their JOBS
with the best that was in them, and
made successes.
Esau sold his birthright for a
mess of pottage. The boy who gives
his ambitions, his future, his chance
of success, riches, place IN the
sun for jazzy dancing makes a poor
err trade even than Esau did. Don
be a party to that crime, girls. Don
aid and abet any youth in such folly.
Touch a boys pocketbook lightly,
girls. Don't assume that every boy
you know is a millionaire in dis
guise. You know better. You know
that the average young man makes
a small salary, and that he has to
pinch the pennies to get by at all.
Therefore, when a young man
comes to see you, have compassion
upon him, and do not suggest going
out to some place of amusement, or
somewhere to eat, or doing anything
that will cost money. Think how
you hate the grating girls who take
your own brothers last dollar away
from him and treat other girls
brothers as you would like other
girls to treat yours.
You know that many girls belong
to a feminine banditti that has no
scruples in holding up a man ana
robbing him of everything he has.
They take everything in sight, and
what they don't see they ask for. IL
a. man takes them to the theatery
they demand the best seats and flow
ers. They can't walk a step, but
must have a taXicab everywhere
they go. They are in a perpetual
state of starvation and must be fed
every few hours, and in restaurant
they invariably pick out the highest
priced dishes. They know boy can
not afford these things nor to give
the presents they hint for. but they
should worry whether he half starVes
or steals to pay for their extraVa'
| gance.
You remember the old fairy story
of the man who was so greedy that
! he killed the goose that laid the
golden egg. That is what girls 90
when they exploit men too much.
They kill them, or they make thieves
or bankrupts Of them, or disgust
them so with feminine parasites that
| they don't want to marry.
Therefore girls, have heart.
Don't make the high cost of, loving
and of playing with you prohibitive