The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

Dear Miss Dix: When my mother died two years ago she said to me "Son you will have to look after Margie. She does so many foolish things, although she's such a good girl. |" I promised to look after my sister, but it is surely man-sized job.
 l am out among the fellows a lot, and hear them talk about this girl and that girl and the way they act in of fices I would hate to have them say such things about my sister. but she tells me about going out alone to lunch and other places with the man for whom she works, and how they sit and chatter in the office. It does not seem right to me, as he is a married man. Do you think ought to tell her what l think, and urge her to get an- other job?
 certainly do. You are not an anx- dently the man for whom your sister works is more of a philanderer than he is a business man, or else he would not spend his time chatting with a pretty little girl. And certainly no girl can make practice of going out to lunch and places of amusement with her em- ployer without being talked about.
 In the right sort of business office a girl is as safe as she would be in a convent. Every one's time and atten- tion and thoughts are absorbed by work. The men are chasing the Al mighty Dollar, and not petticoats, and no hint of sex enters into the relation ship between men and women. Brains, ability. skill, reliability are all that are considered.
 But the wrong sort of a business office is the open door to perditi0n for a weak or silly girl. 1t offers every op- portunity for an interruptions man to take advantage of girls lack of knowledge and experience of the world. In the intimacy in which they are thrown together he can flatter her, ca- jole her, win her heart by kindness or terrify her by thoughts of losing her job, and always play safe because he is married, and she knows it.
 Therefore, one thing is very certain. The minute married man begins treat ing a girl employe differently from the way he would treat a boy employe, the time has come for her to grab her hat and leave.
 And talk to your sister. Tell her what men say about flirtatious girls in offices and what they think of girls who have affairs with their married employers, Girls do so many foolish, compromising things through sheer lack of knowledge of how they look to a censorious world.
 Try to make her understand that a girl must not only be good, but look good, and that nobody can really take care of her but herself, She is lucky girl who has good brother to put
 N DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Dorothy Dix: My son is 24 years old. He doesn't work. He never goes to bed until we drive him to it, and hates to get up in the morning. He had the chance of a lifetime to step in and learn good business years ago, but he refused to do it, said he was go- ing to be a professional man. But after six years he is no further ahead, be- cause he doesn't study any more than he works. He has sullen disposition, and is very disagreeable at home.
 My heart aches, for l looked for great things from the boy. Can you suggest any way out of it for the boy, or
 MYSELF. The only way out of it is the Spartan Mother way, and few women have the courage to take that. "Whoso will not work, neither shall he eat" Chuck the