The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-01
What
 Makes a Man Un- popular?
Dorothy Dir
The Unpopular Man Is Usually Either Patronzing Con- ceited Or Quarrelsome, Therefore The
 Ladies Shun Him

The wall-flower girl who wastes her sweetness on the desert air of her family CirCle-the girl who is nice, and pretty, and well dressed, and well educated, but who has nCVer a beau to bless herself with is a familiar figure in our midst.
 The man who is good looking, and well educated, and upright, and who has a good job, but whom women common. Still, he does exist, a for lorn creature. lowering around the fringe of other peoples good times, and listening to the echo of other girls and boys billing and cooing.
 The case of the neglected man is never so pitiful as that of the neg lected girl because it Is not the un happy fate of a man to be compelled to sit on the anxious seat, straining his eyes watching for the suitor who never comes, and praying for the dance partner who never shows up. The man can always hustle up senti- mental business, so to speak. It is permitted to him to go out and hunt up feminine society and annex 1t by strong-arm methods if he cannot get it any other way.
 Failing in all else, a man can all ways buy in, so that he who has a car need never sf%. alone, nor need the man with f&e price of restau rants and theatre tickets eat by him self and so to the show by his lone some. And, while it may hurt his pride and be disillusioning to know tEat he is not loved for himself alone, still he does not have to wear the willow of the forsaken as does enough, the one thing that money cannot buy girl Is belledom, and many a little shop girl without two frocks to her back has more atten- tion from men than a multi-million- airess.
 The neglected man is also a rarer bird than the neglected girl because women are less choosey and per snickity about men than men are about women. No girl would dare demand that the men she goes out with should possess all the aggrega- tion of charms and graces that the most ordinary man expects of the girl he honors with his society.
 Yet, there are men who are per sona non grata with the feminine sex, who see no girlish eye brighten at their coming, and who find that the very doormat is frozen to the floor when they call. One of these frost-bitten Johnnies, who says that
 
 the third grade in the grammar school and have been doing it ever since, asks me why 1t Is that he has never been able to make a hit with the ladies.
 He ayers that he Is quite as good looking as the average man; that he has a college degree; that he has no bad habits; that he is well-to-do and no tightwad. Yet no woman ever dances with him or accepts his in- Vitations unless he is the last call to the dining car, and all of his gifts are just so many pounds of candy and pages of reading matter, instead of being love-tokens.
 What it is that makes the sexes attractive to each other is secret that old Dame Nature still hides in her hard old heart. It isn't beauty, and Mrs Roy stewart, formerly of Birmingham. They will spend three months in the west before returning to their home.
 Miss Christine Newman has re- turned to her home in Opelika after spending the week with relatives in Birmingham.
 Mir. and Mrs. Hugh Moser have re- turned to Nashville after a visit to relatives here.
 
 Mrs. w. s. Malone has returned from Red Boiling Springs in Tennes- see, where she spent several weeks
 Among the out-of-town guests for the Dogulov-Sachs wedding which took place Tuesday were: Mrs. VII liam D. Marker, Mrs. Morris Frank, Mrs. and Mrs. A. Dogalov of Phila delpha Mrs. I. Seletz of Chester, Mrs. Oscar Isreal of Lumberton, N. C.; and Mrs. Al Hoffman of San Antonio, Texas.
 Miss Lucille Crews has returned home after visiting MT. and Mrs. Rob- ert A. Bell in York, Ala.
 Miss Mary Ferguson has returned home after visiting relatives in Louisville and Indianapolis.
 MT. and Mrs. William Shell and daughter Sibyl, of Gadsden. motored to Birmingham Sunday. Mir. Shell and Miss Shell remained for few days visit.
 Mir. Richard NJ Johnston spent Sun day in Montgomery.
 Walter Fowlkes, Jr.. Joe Marbury and Harru Gilmer spent Sunday with friends in Attalla.
 Mir. and Mrs T. G. Usry arc In Attalla visiting MT. and Mrs. J. F. Granting.
 MT. Elliott Carnes, who Is working this summer at Mitchells Dam, spent the last of the week In Montgomery.
 
 Mir. and Mrs. Charlie Baron have returned to their homo in Alabama City, after a motor trip to Birming- ham.
 Miss Lola Wester of Gadsden Is spending the week with friends in 1 Birmingham.
 W. H. Ward and Richard Small wood of Tuscaloosa motored to Br- mingham Sunday to see MT. w. Frank ~ -.