The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-09
Beware Perils Of Reckless Joy-
 Riding
By BETTY VINCENT

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 and nice young man with { pleasant smile and laughing eyes in it's a great temptation. You may bt in the city where it is warm and hot and a spin out into the open would be cool and refreshing. You may bt in the country and have long tramp ahead of you down hot dusty road but no matter where you are or where you are going don't get in the car with a nice young man!
 Out of a thousand nice young men lined up in a row in their roadsters or touring cars there might be only ont who belongs to the criminal or ever cad type, but how are you going tc know that the nice young man who beckons to you to enter his car is moi that man? Many girls have been found thrown from cars in dazed condition this summer. Magistrates and judges have warned them time and time again that 1t is their own fault.
 Flirtations Tn a crowd, on boat at the seashore, on the dance floor are more or less harmful. The silly sea. son is an excuse for many new friends Vacation always brings host of new acquaintances, but the girl with two bits of gray matter under her bobbed locks avoids the flirtatious young oI old man who invites her to take a spir with him. She knows that it might bt her last spin or just another case fo1 some fatherly judge to warn all other girls not to go joy riding with mar unless you know him if you do moi wish to be found on the roadside or even tossed into a brook or lake.
 There is also another side to this pickup joy-riding story which is moi grusome or even exciting--it's. just pathetic. Many a girl loses a good chance to marry or form a worthwhile friendship by running around in pick up motor rides with chance acquaint ances. Just let young man hear that a girl he would like to meet is type of girl who goes riding with any body who asks her" and he wei turn his feet in another direction. HC doesn't dare trust her.
 This is also true of the very young man who asks you to take the joyride She's one of the prettiest, eutest girls l ever met" said one chap, who liked to brag how many different girls he had picked up in his new car this sea son, but, great guns, how am I tC know she wouldn't run around with other men in cars if I should marry her?' And that's just the point. How would he know?
 Would you rather have few joy rides with chance acquaintances and lose the friendship of worthwhile man? Wouldn't it be better and safer to say No" and 'sit pretty" until a man whom you know and could trust comes your way? Lots of girls think he won't come, and perhaps he wouldn' come as quickly as if you just hopped in with the first man who offers you a ride, but when he does come he won't be afraid of you and look at you with that suspicious query, ''I wonder if she would go jOyriding with strange men when am working hard in an office to earn money for the apartment, the food and the clothes?"
 Men are very particular (and quite naturally sol about the little lady who is to take their name for life. Some times the widest young man requires most of the girl he is to wed. Why k01ulDlN BNAlhuSC hhOWB NA1Nk4tS ASetAN the girl whom he cannot trust. II isn't so much the past that worries him-it's the future.
 And it's the future which concerns you? Joy rides? A whiff of country air, mixed with gasoline, a betting party, and then perhaps meyer to, meet again; or perhaps, if yOu get that wrong man, even a bolt on the head
 A. Ak~,a what? Isn't it better to just sit pretty and wait for the man to become proper ly presented rather than to hop in with every Tom, Dick and Harry who opens a motor car door which might never let you out again, and certainly doe' not add to your reputation?
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