Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-24

but every married man who is de-
Gently polite to a woman in his Office
seems to be under suspicion.
MARRIED EMPLOYER.
Answer: / suppose, Mr.. Man, it is
another illustrate OF the old prov
erb, Give a, dog a bad name and
hang HIM" There have been so
many office Lotharios, and so many
employers have eloped with their
pretty stenOgra pliers, that the world
has come to look with a suspicious
eye upon even the most casual kind
ness that a man extends to his fell
low workers of the female persua-
sion. Especially when they are
young and good-looking.
For a. man to be seen out lunch
ing with a pretty. little, bob-haired
secretary, or to take her home in
his car, could set the tongues of
gossip wagging, though his in
terest might be as innocent and
paternal as that of any grandpa who
ever fed a hungry youngster, or
gave a lift to a tired one. But no.
body would believe it, because the
movies and the lurid melodramas
and the sex novels portray the tired
business man as wolf in sleeps
clothing, and every working girl as
either an abnormaliy innocent lamb
or as chief Of the home wrecking
crew.
All of which. of course, is tommy
rot. Less philandering goes on in
d business office than anywhere else
| in the world. Working people are
concerned with making money in
stead of making love. Filtration is
a parlor game, not an occupation
that pulls down a pay envelope.
| Furthermore, the men and women
who work side by side are not apt
to fall in love, because they see
each other too clearly and too close
| ly. They get all the disillL sions
that matrimony would bring with
out any of its compensations. The
| only thing that the average employ.
er ever notices about his women en-
| ployes is their efficiency, and he is
| far more concerned about their spell
| ing or their craftsmanship than he
is about their eyes. And the aver
age woman employe does not see her
boss as a figure of romance. She
thinks him a crouch, and is sorry
for his wife, instead of wanting to
AS for a womans mistaking the
nature of a mans attentions. that
| is the commonest thing in life The
| ability to believe that every man
who is polite to her cherishes a Sc
| cret passion for her is Gods great
est gift to woman. 1t salves the
wounds life deals her vanity. You
will always find that the less at
tractive woman is the more con,
WINGED she is that she is vamp
| that no man can, resist.
| Dear Miss DiX-Would you think
| it advisable for a sixteen-year-old
girl who has been brought up in a
lovely home, and with every ad.
Van-Age ahead of her, to marry a
boy few years older than she? The
girl really loves him, and is assured
! OF his affection, but she. loves an.
| other person almost as we'll though
not exactly in the same way
Do YOU think it probable that a
boy who has given up drink and
wild girls because Ee loves this Girl
would return to them after they are
married? THE GIRL.
Answer; My dear child, any girl
| of sixteen who has a good home and
thinks of leaving it to get married
should be locked up in some safe
place until her temporary insanity
| passes. And any girl of sixteen who
| even dreams of doing such a suicida
! thing as getting married when she
| doesn't know which of two boys she
| likes the best should be put in a
! padded cell She's violently crazy
with homicidal tendencies.
Why do you want 10 wreck your
life al its very beginning? Why are
you in such a hurry to plunge your
self into misery? Why DO YOU want
to marry any man when you are
not in love with him, for you GER
tainly have only a passing fancy for
q boy if you doubt your own af-
lection for him. Think it all over
for the next five or six years, and
then you won't marry either one of
them, but you will choose a man
who wor have to be reformed and
whom you will know that you love.
DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1920