The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-26
By DOROTHY DIX

Listen. girls. As you are strong, be merciful. As you have power, use it gently. Don't be so cruelty whom you play around. Have little consideration for their health and welfare.
 Don't act as if you thought tha, every one of them was gilded youth whose valet brought his cof- | fee to his bedside at noon and told | him that his bawth was ready. You know well enough that practically every young man with whom you associate has to work, and that most clock at a. m. or thereabouts. It is all very well for you to dance until dawn, because you can sleep half the day, but have some pity on the boy who, because of you must go to work with only an hour or two of rest Think how tired and exhausted he is: how he has to goad himself to his task; how he is often Criven to taking drugs and stimu lants that ke would not otherwise take to give him the strength to so on at all.
 It is you girls who turn night into day who are responsible for the late hour revelries. The young men, who are thinking of the morning after. would be glad to call it a night at some reasonable hour. bu: you girls never want to go home amusement to another, and it takes more courage than the average youth possesses to tell you that he can't go the pace and keep up with you.
 How can I tell girl that I am q blooming Cinderella, and have to beat it for home when the clock strikes twelve. when she says that she never hits the hay until four? waiied one of these overdone young sters to me the othed day.
 Then he added: "I'll tell the world that the girls who drag a fellow around all night are selfish little beasts, for they can snooze it out the next day while he has got to stand the gaff from some slave dr,ver who isn't taking into consid- eration that he lost his beauty sleep. Eut every time you tell girl that you are sleepy and tired and want to go home, and a pillow would looi; better to you than anything else on earth, she thinks you are sissy
 
 to pinch yourself awake and go on.' Sonsider the future of these boys girls. There is some gray matter under your bobbed hair, and a hear: somewhere in that little flapper breast of yours. and you wouldn't like to have it on your conscience that you had ruined mans life and wrecked promising career. Yet that is exactly what you are doing when you are keeping a boy out all night, playing about with you. He goes to his business loggy with fatigue, without an ounce of pep .oi energy in him. His brain in dull and stupid from lack of sleep. His nerves are frazzled out to the breaking Eoint, and he is irritable and hard to get along with. He is late at of flee or store. and practically worth less after he gets there. and if he doesn't lose his job altogether, he drifts into the class of the also rams in business who are slated for firing and not for advancement If you take the men at the tor in any city-the big professional men, the merchant princes. the great manufactures, the rich hank CTS. you will not find that a single one of them ran around with girls who danced until 3 o'clock in the morning and then went to dairy lunch places for breakfast. Their sweethearts sent them home at il o'clock, with the result that instead