Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-29

dew. You cannot touch a. lily with
out soiling it. No more can
maiden permit the familiarities of
men without losing her delicacy, and
the Very fineness of her innocence
and purity. @
Dear Miss Dix-The average man
of today demands that the girl
should hold his attention, and if she
fails he will go on to the next one.
In other times was it not the men
who lived in constant fear of dis
pleasing the girl? But now. the least
little imperfection, the smallest thing
that displeases men, and they are
gone
Is there nothing we can do about
it? Must we spend all our lives
trying to please the men and hold
their attention? NJ. ID.
Answer
The husband market, my dear,
like all other markets, is governed
! by the law of supply and demand.
Just at present, owing to the num-
Der of young men who were killed in
the war, the amount of available
matrimonial timber is far below the
demand, and this enables men to
put fancy price upon themselves.
They know they have only to pick
and choose, and this renders them
finicky and capricious. Therefore,
the girl has to do all the running
and make all the efforts to please or
else they ride away to the next girl
who is willing to pay the price of
their attentions. 1t is merely a mat
ter of there being more girls than
boys, which has given the boys the
upper hand. In other times, when
there were more men than women.
the balance of power was with the
women, and men had to do the
counting instead of being courted, as
they are now. Then a man felt that
a woman was doing him an honor to
accept his attentions, but now he
feels that she should be grateful for
life if he condescends to take her
anywhere.
But in marriage, my dear, women
have always had to please their hus-
bands, and they always will have to
please them if they hold them, be-
cause marriage means more to a
woman than it does to a man, and
her happiness depends on her hus-
band more than his does on his wife.
It is women who always have to do
the adapting of themselves to their
husbands. 1t is always women who
have to use tact and finesse to get
along.
Perhaps this isn't fair, but it is
life
Dear Miss DIX am a young
high school junior in love with a
classmate. She is the sweetest thing
on earth, but there is one thing that
can't dope out. She seems very
interested in two other boy friends,
both of whom attend high school
One Of them smokes, and the other
drinks, and she is trying to reform
them. [ am perfectly certain she
loves me, but should she use her
time in reforming these boys?
WONDERING JUNIOR.
Answer
Don't worry about that, Junior.
Every girl in the world fancies her
self q reformer and believes that her
sacred influence is going to lift some
man up to the higher life 1t is the
commonest form of female egotlsm.
Couldn't you affect vice, If you
have none, to appeal to her altru'
istic instincts?
Why not go on a study deDaucn,
and make her feel that you are rum
ing your health by burning the MID
night oil over your books? You could
kill two birds with one stone that
way, and she could not fail to see
how superior you are with your am
bition and high standing in school
to these mere tFiflers, who are vast
ipu tboir time smoking cigarettes
and picking their poor little brains
in booze.
Copyright, 1920