The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-23

VIVIAN is made at the world. Anu
 V all because certain young man ~| dared to suggest that they become "platonic friends ,.,
 "It wouldn't be so bad. l would Ike to have him for platonic friend. only it was so conceited of him. she said with a little stamp of her foot. Tt was just as if he haid said: See here' little girl, I don't love you as l do some other girls, but 1 think we could be splendid friends if we cut out ali love and just met like pals. 1t was as much as warning me that l mustn fall in love with him, but that if l would keep to the platonic side of the fence we could enjoy each others com pany.
 .Ilet Vivian thoroughly unburden her thoughts. Then, when she looked up for advice, gave it to her.
 Granted that the young man was a bit hasty in telling her just what their friendship would amount to. he certainly was frank After all. wasn't 1t better for him to tell her in the beginning than to let the thing go on and on only to find out that he wasn't in love at all Would that we had few more men like the one Vivian met!
 But there is a problem here for her to meet.
 Is platonic friendship advisable when a girl is at a marriagable age!
 The answer depends upon the girl herself ..
 If a girl has lots of men friends, if she goes to dances and leads an all around girls life, platonic friendship IS ideal. It is the most restful thing m the world to have man to talk to Wno does not make love to you. It's stimuli lating, big, thought-giving. It gives any girl a new outlook on life-lf she does not see this man too much.
 If a girl thinks she can keep up a platonic friendship with one man and not see any other men for any great length of time, she has great deal to learn. It simply can't be done. Sooner or later she is bound to fall in love with him, to see certain qualities in hlm which will endear him to her and make Plato take off his hat to Cupid. But if she sees other men, if she has several admirers or suitors, then piatonic friendship is one of the finest things Tn the world. It is good for the girl ana good for the man.
 Too many girls have clung to pla- tonic friendship, giving up all other men acouaintances, only to weep when they see their platonic friend marry another' and to realize that the best years ot their lives have been wasted. The girl who has many platonic friendships, or who has never allowed her one piatonlc ac- 0uaintance to keep her from falling Tn love with other men, has nothing to re- get when at last this friendship breaks up through marriage or through some falling out. She does not have that s1ost" feeling of the tilted girl and con seouently takes the break as lightly as she would if she had fallen out with any of her girl chums.
 ] If Vivian really loves this young man Eho has suggested that they form platonic friendship, she would be most unwise to continue his friendship. Ii she merely likes him and feels that they ave a lot in common, she Will not see i'm seven days a week. let him take up cu her time, or turn away from other gasculine friends if she is clever. She Hill make him live up to his own par. cain and keep it so p-l-a-t-o-n-ic that she thinks of him only as true disciple of Plato while she keeps the wings or Cupid fluttering by going about "ltn men who tell her the things that every girl loves to hear.