Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-05
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ny MIMI
Don't Limit Yourself.
BY MIMI.

| Yesterday / had chat with one or
/ the prettieSt girls I've ever seen. she
! just been married a few months-and
| her husband was very much in evil
! denCe.
! lie wasn't much of a husband. to
| tell you the truth He was ungainly.
| awkward. slow of speech. rather stu
| pid and thoroughly selfish.
/ But he spelled romance to my pretty
| little friend. Shed met him when she
was Is. at the garage where her IA
| theirs car was being mended. He was
a nice country boy who helped around
! the garage and the fall was mutual.
In couple of years, when he had
garage of his own, he asked her to
| step up to the altar with him and she
did She loved him, YOU see. or
thought she did.
Still, she realizes a little now Of
what all her friends meant when they
razzed her for such a step. She's be-
ginning to understand a little bit that
Hubert is not just at home with the
people she likes-that he's little bit
slow on the uptake and doesn't always
make such good company as she'd
hoped.
But, Mimi" she said to me last
night as we sat talking alone, why
do you blame me for my marriage?
Huberts the kindest man I've ever
known. Living out in the country as
I did, never had a chance to meet
any of the stunning men you're al
ways talking about. I wouldn't have
known what to say to them if l had
met them.
Hubert is just my speed. We're
both country people-and maybe he
is little bit slow and sometimes very
selfish, but he's just the kind of hus-
band / would have married. anyway.
l couldn't have found any one else"
Which expresses a viewpoint | find
everywhere today. Girls don't seem
to give themselves a chance.
They make up their minds that be-
cause they're pumped down in GER
tain sort of environment. they must
marry within the circle in which they
find themselves and they must stay
there.
Eva, my pretty little country friend.
speaks the truth when she says that
at present she hasn't an opportunity
to meet any one but boys like Hubert.
And if she did meet them right this
minute. she'd be pretty dull. She
hasn't much to talk about and she
doesn't know how to express herself
very well.
She honestly thinks she's done the
best thing possible by marrying HUI
bert. And she's confident that her
judgment is sound.
It's never occurred to her that
change of scene might have changed
her mind entirely.
II Eva had once started travelling to
New York each day to work, she'd
have become so different even her own
family wouldn't have recognized her.
hvic xIal- ,xrI,a 1,ar
husband is slow and dull. She would
have learned how to get along with
the kind of people she secretly likes
better than her dear Hubert.
Shed have got a new idea of her.
self and her place in the world. She
would, of course, have met new peo-
pie, too.
Instead of which she limited herself
to the narrow horizon of her com.
munity and gave up any hope of
better math than Hubert.
That's why we tiresome people are
always warning you damsels not to
rush into the first marriage which
seems attractive to you. 1t may seem
attractive to you right now in the
place where you're situated. But sup
pose your scene changed. Suppose
you had an opportunity to get out
and do a few things you're secretly
longing to do. Would Hubert or Bill
or Dan seem so attractive to you in
new circumstances?
Give yourself chance. Don't limit
your horizon.
Mimi will be glad to answer any in
dulries directed to this paper provided
stamped. addressed envelope is inclosed Also
she will be glad to send Food for Conversa-
ton and How to Overcome Self~Conscious-
ness.l