Evening star., 1927-09-23
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
Cinderella Stuff.
BY MIMI.

In spite of the common sense Of the
turks deep in her soul somewhere the
vague idea that some day she, like
Cinderella, might shed her rags and
marry a rich prince who would in
stantly transport her to the Castle of
Hearts Desire.
That Cinderella story always sound
ed very attractive as far as 1t went.
But it didn't go far enough to show
the working girl what Cinderella had
to put up with for long while after
the line. They lived happily ever
after"
The Castle Of H. D., in the first
place, sheltered all the princes fam
lily and his rich relations, and what
they said about Cinderella when they
first got an eyeful of her is nobody's $
business.
The idea Of their son marrying a
shabby little thing like that! The
idea of her trying to break her way
| into a society where she's not wanted.
| 1t she had the faintest ghost Of self
respect, she'd have refused the prince
and stayed home by the fire, where
| she belonged!
| They raved and ranted and then set
| to work to make things as difficult
| for the new princess as could be i'm
agined.
She, poor child, hadn't the faintest
| idea of how to act in her new posi-
ton. She'd never given a dinner
party. she'd never had a servant to
order about; she'd never even had the
privilege of ordering a lot of clothes
for herself at one time.
So she made fearful mistakes. The
| dinner parties she gave at first were
the ridicule of all the unkind and en-
| vious mothers who had wanted the
prince to marry their daughters.
And her clothes, when they came,
| weren't what they should have been.
She pulled a lot of bones about those.
| Altogether she had a pretty hard
| time of it, and in spite Of the prince
and all the money, she used to long
for the good old fireside, with nobody
but herself to order dinner for.
And, you know. the modern Cinde-
rella story runs just the same. The
working girl of fairly poor parents
gets herself involved in the most
awful mess when she sets out to
marry a rich man whose position in
life makes necessary all sorts Of duties
she's never thought of.
She has to learn lessons, just as II
she were in school, but she has to
learn them from unkind, critical
| teachers usually.
It all sounds so beautifully simple
on paper. What could be easier than
| ordering 20 servants to wait on one?
Yet any girl who's not used to sery.
| ants will find herself in deep If she
tries to run big establishment with
no preparation whatsoever.
| So many poor girls marry rich men
without love, seeing before them a
life of luxury and ease to make up
for the lack of love, and they find to
their dismay that they must work
harder than ever to fit into the pic
ture their husbands have made for
| them.
Not only from sentimental reasons
it's far wiser for girl to marry some
| man pretty near her own station IN
| life than for her to try to make the
million-dollar class without training
| for that life and without love.
Understand, I'm not advising against
| a marriage between O poor girl and
a rich man when love is the deciding
factor.
But I'm warning you would-be Gin
derellas not to count on peace and
happiness from a loveless marriage
to a multimillionaire, or words to that
effect.
Just on the practical side, it's 6
hard road you've made for yourself il
you plunge yourself into a career for
which you're not fitted and not pre-
pared.
Copyright. 1927
| Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries