The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-11

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 It isn't matter of fitness in any way. because we all know dozens | of old maids that every man recom- mends to every other for a wife but never wants, for himself. Just what particular thing it is in women that attracts men is the great psychological problem that the feminine sex, spends most of its waking time in trying to solve. But they never find out. However, we can all put our fingers on contribu- tory causes.
 Sometimes girl does not have less Eden. All over the country there are small towns from which | every eligible male has emigrated Only doddering old men and callow school boys are left. and the girls are foredoomed to old maidhood un- tate the example of the boys and follow them out into places where | the hunting is good.
 Sometimes girl does not have any beaux because her family scare away all the young men. No youths in these free and easy days are go- ing to hang around house where the very doormat is frozen, and there are icicles hanging on their welcome and where friend parents sit around
 
 foolish, silly, boy-and-girl chatter.
 Mother and father can very easily keep the boys away by sticking around too much themselves. Many girl is chaperoned out of a hus- band as well as a good time.
 
 Sometimes a girl never has any beaux because she is too standoffish. She won't take the trouble to make Ii e-S.
 grand and naughty air and expects men to bow before her as if she were a queen.
 In novels that pose makes a hit. In real life, it's flivver.
 Men like to be jollied They like to know that woman admires them; that she is pleased with their atten- tion, and they just naturally graviate toward the woman who makes herself pleasant to them, ana pass up the one whom they have to break their necks to please.
 Sometimes girl doesf't have beaux because she is too anxious for them. When there is any chasing tc be done, men want to be the hound and not the hare; the pursuer and not the pursued. The girl who tries to drum up beauX for herself by call ing men up over the telephone and demanding to know why they haven't been to see her never suc- ceeds in making herself belle The woman who is crazy to marry never catches a husband. The over-anxious woman defeats her own ends. She rtuses a mans sporting blood, and puts him on his mettle to outwit her.
 nf are those who make every man feel that he is welcome and appreciated when he comes, but that he'd never be missed if he didn't come.
 Sometimes a girl doesn't have any beaux because she is misfit. Often she is too highly educated and too cultivated for the young men with whom she is thrown. She makes them feel inferior and awkward, and so they leave her severely alone.
 That is why the college graduates who are entitled to write M. A. after their names are less apt to be called ma than the girls who left high school the same year the boys did.
 Like goes to like in youth. The birds of a feather flock together, and the girls who can jazz and ragtime and play good game of bridge and dc what all the others are doing jlfst naturally belong to the bunch. while the girls who do not dance or play cards are left by their lonsesome.
 These are some of the many req sons why some girls have beaux and others have none.
 Environment the family, tempera- ment, luck, all play their part. But in it's last analysis, the explanation l of, why some women attract men and