The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-08
Don't Think Love Is Always
 Blind
Ry BETTY VINCENT

T OyE may be blind. but the girl who goes hiking with her sweet
 heart and does not carefully con- sider her hiking makeup is taking the chance of her sweet young life. Hik- ing has become a very popular sport with the, younger set. Saturdays and Sundays you will see scores of pretty girls in knickers, rough sport skirts and all sorts of freak make-ups" on the road.
 But the girl who relies on a pretty face and dons a freak hiking makeup when her sweetie Is going along is most unwise. Knickers, if they are of tweed, corduroy or khaki and fit well, are very becoming to the average girl, but knickers, If they belong to some kid brother, to fathers cast-off golf wardrobe or are a pair of sailors trou- sers Gas 1 have seen many silly flap pers donning of late), are far from picturesque, to say the least.
 The same might be said of the blouse which is worn with the knickers. A white middy, khaki blouse or a strict ly tailored waist looks well with knick- CTS, but when girl dons her brother \ blouse or a mans shirt, tucking it in loosely at the throat, the lines of her figure certainly are not the best. And little dirt spot on either side of her lace, have her bobbed hair ruffled by the winds and her face decidedly sun burned or freckled, and the picture is not exactly of the type you would ex- pect even blind Cupid to rave over.
 Of course it is true the girl hiker is just out for fun, and also true that the boy hiker frequently dons as freaky a makeup and looks just as tired and dirty and sunburned, and yet-remem- Der there are pictures which imprint themselves so deeply on the memory that mere man never forgets them.
 Let Q girl wear dainty Organdie and a summery hat the next evening when Jack comes to take her to the beach, and he is just deep enough to recall that picture of you in your funny hiking costume, much the same way a newly wed husband will often re- member his fife, who wears q discol- ored old bOudoir cap and runover slip pers at the breakfast table. She may be as dainty as a fashion model in the evening, but that morning picture is also among his brain pictures.
 Hiking costumes may be made very attractive and just as comfortable as if the girl pickedu p castoff masculine wardrobes and trusted to her bobbed hair and powder puff to put on the finishing touches" Summer is the time to hike, to have beaus and plan for that engagement party next spring. Therefore, girls, don't don just any old pair of knickers or brooches avail able.
 Be certain that your knickers are made of some attractive material, that they fit we'll, and that the blouse, which goes with them looks well. See to 1t that you have neat, well fitting wool or cotton stockings, and shoes with a low, sensible heel (not runover Cuban or French ones).
 Cupid is a good little sport, but the girl who thinks he will overlook these details and help win a mate for a girl who looks more like a tramp or a sum mer hobo than a pretty girl out for a days hike, is casting love and marriage and everything to the four winds.
 This is an age of freedom and inde- pendence, but no girl wishes to look her AForst. The very fact that every hiker takes her powder puff and mirror along proves this But aspocket mirror does not disclose the bag of her knickers, the blouse which makes her look like scarecrow in corn field, or her ri. diculous runover high heeled slices.
 These are the mental pictures that Bob, Harry or Jack takes, and which will flash before him when he sees some other girl hiker who has thought twice about her knickers, her blouse and a good, sensible sport shoe which meets a trim ankle incased in woolen or cot ton stockings (not an old pair of alarmed flesh colored chiffon silk ones).
 Therefore, girls, when you go hiking with Cupid give just as much thought to your costume as you do when you go to a lawn fete or a dance.