The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-19

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 SIX BROKEN BooBS.
 Answer: Right you are boys. As hold-up artist the modern girl makes Robin Hood look like a piker. She's g. go-gettei who is determined to have q good time, and make some man pay tor it, and she doesn't care a boot how much he has to suffer for l if. How 3 young woman who has got one single throb of human compass sion about her can adapt her ruthless means of~getting wna- she wants Is a myste never to Joe solved. -
 For the girls calm assumption that every boy who comes to see her is young Mir. Croesus in all Josh, and she knows it. She knows perfectly well that he probably isn't earning a bit moro than she Is, and she knows | to a penny just how far dollar will | go Nevertheless, when they go to the theatre, nothing but the best seats will do for her. At a restaurant she looks over the menu and se.ects the most expensive dishes. and she can't dance anywhere except at the smartest places.
 And hint! She hasn't the slightest l hesitation in letting Tom, Dick and Harry know exactly what she ants | and expects for her birthday and l Christmas, and what q CTS rhe Will need for certain occasions, and the kind of candy she prefers, and woe to Tom, Dick and Harry if they don't | come across!
 l Of course, men are arrant towards to stand and deliver at the point of l two blue eyes. or brown ones, but there are mighty few men who have any backbone where women are con- cerned, and man in love ..; a. spine less as fishing worm.
 A mans vanity won't let him t;ll a girl that he can't afford taxis, and orchids, and so he lets woman work him for them, even if 1t sends him to the cheap lunch counter for week | to pay for one dinner for her at t..s 1 Splendi ferrous cafe.
 But In demanding so much of men. girls are foolish. They kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Many a man who would like take girls to places within his inc--ls, doesn't take them at all because he can't afford all the splurge they require. And there would be lot more we -ding bells if the high cost of loving didn't take so much money that there is nothing le:. upon which to get married.
 DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix-My neighbor is a fine, conscientious woman with one child by whom she is trying so hard to do her duty at sh3 is running him. 1 This poor little creature is never permitted to Jiay with other little boys for fear he may acquire dude l ways, or learn something he shouldn't t know. He is made to practice on the piano for hours every day, and is uttered within ap inch of ..is life. The result is that he is a pale. aenemic little fellow, the but. of all the other children. who call out 10 him as they pass. Baby, daring, l isn't it time for you to have your bottle?" or "Sweeticums, come go to bye-bye land"
 There's society that takes chill dren away from cruel mothers. Let's | organize one to rescue the unhappy victims who are being mothered to 1 death.
 A LOCKER ON AT IOTHERHOoD.
 Answer: It takes wise woman to | know where to draw a line between being tender enough to children, and careful enough of therr and not too tender or too careful of them. And strangely enough, if one must err, it is better to be lon tn hard side than the Ut side. For life = battle all the way through and the victory goes to those who can hit the naru- est and fight the longest. It is won not by the weaklinc and those who have been brought up on silk cushions and protected from every rough con- tact with the world.
 Certainly the cruelest mother who beats and bangs her children about does them no such injustice as does the mother who raises up q sissy | boy, for she gives him a handicap against which he struggles in vain All the boys of his own age despite him. so he Is lonely and forelorn. He is an object of pity and scorn to older people, and his own reaction to the situation is either to make him a womanish man. or else a tough and a hellion.
 Instead of trying to keep their darlngs unspotted from the world, mothers had far better teach their children how to keep clean in it, and instead of protecting them from life