The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29
Girls, Beware Of Calling Him
 Up
By BETTY VINCENT


 A NGELICA is wondering just what "A New York men are like. She IS
 southern girl who has been in New York six months. She says she hasn't met real, red-blooded, honest to-goodness he-man bachelor.
 "When I came here and shared an apartment with another girl l thought we would have to shut the door nights and put placard Callers only al- lowed three nights a week on it." Angelica told me. But no such luck. Neither my friend nor have had a single, solitary caller or 50 much as request to call.
 I've are both the most domestic animals in the world. We can cook all the tempting southern dishes on the menu better than the colored mammy who taught us how. We have & jewel of an apartment furnished ac- cording to all the rules of somber shades .-tans and browns-and we have the darlingest diningroom with a round table, buffet, set of Willowware dishes and odd bits of silver from home. Oh, the menus we have planned for these men we felt so certain would appreciate a good, home-cooked dinner"
 Angelica took out her blue silk hand kerchief and wept real tears.
 And-not-a-single man-has ever asked either of us if he might have the pleasure of calling!"
 More tears and then Angelica con- tinued:
 "These horrid New York men are all alike. They look alike, they dress alike and they say the same things. They all have line that runs like this:
 "I'm so glad to have met you. Really, we must spend an evening together. We'll dance, eat and go to show. Here's my card. Do call me up some day and I'll take you to dinner"
 This time Angelica pounded the table with a little clenched fist.
 T never called up a man in my life,' she said with gritted teeth, "and I'm not going to begin it here in New York This request hasn't happened to me once It's happened at least ten times and my chum says she gets the same line: Call me up and we'll make a dinner date ! Do you think we'll ever do it? Not so. We'll go home and get up our good din ners for ourselves. We'll eat them and read novels, sleep our heads off and get to be fat, fair and forty !"
 But the fact of the matter is they'll do nothing of the sort. They'll cook and get to be experts, and some day Angelica will find the right man, and that right man will tell one of his friends about her chum, and the wed- ding bells will ring for them all.
 There are domestic men in New York. There are men who ask if they may call, and would give ten years of their lives just to meet girls like Angelica and her chum. They may not he found in six months or for two years, but they are here-plenty of them good natives and out-of-town chaps, too.
 The danger lies in the fact that An gelica and her chum are getting so lonesome that one of these days one of them is going to call one of these chaps up and make the mistake of her life. Once they start in to calling men up, 1t will be an easy matter. Then exit ideals and the,Tight man. The man who asks girl 70 call him up is not worthy of the title of man." It is long lane which has no turn, and while Angelica and her chum may get dis couraged if they just have patience they'll come to the turn in the lane and find the right man waiting for them.