Evening star., 1927-06-29
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
The Too Modest Violet.

There are number of popular
novels in circulation just now Whlch
| deal with the triumphs of the sweet
| old-fashioned girl over her breezy pert
modern sisters.
The stories sound awfullN nice.
| They relate in detail how the hand
| some dark eyed hero, weary of bobbed
and hrazen fIappers. turns gratefully
| to the simple modest charm of a
| golden haired country 81.
| And they may be sound on the
efficacy of simple charm. But they're
positively dangerous if they lead any
of you to suspect that all you've got
| to do is to register modest charm in
order to have all the popularity you
| want.
| You see. the really old-fa shioned girl
| hasn't a chance today Somehow the
| competition has grown SO keen, every
| girl has got to work hard If she wants
| her quota of good times and happy
| days.
1t was all very we'll in the old days
to exhibit maidenly modesty and re-
| fuse to look at man until he'd called
on your family three or four times.
| but nowadays that doesn't work.
For some reason or other there
seem to have been fewer women in
the old days, SO that a girl could just
sit home and gracefully accept such
attention as came her way, not
hotherinE to encourage her Suitors
the least bit.
Today it's the height of folly to
act as though you were comforting a
favor on some young gentleman by
allowing him to have dates with you.
You're not important enough TO
him or any other boy. Even if some
lad falls madly in love with you, your
frigid matter-of-faCt acceptance of his
avowals of love will chill him out.
And inside of month I'll warrant
he'll have found some one just as
good looking-just as amusing-in-
finitely more friendly,
Suppose a girl meets a boy at a
dance-and he shows a decided in
terest in her. If she's the old
fashioned shrinking lily type, she'll
say to herself; Now | mustn't en-
courage this boy to call. If he likes
me well enough he'll seek me out
again at some other dance, and gradu-
ally We'll get to know each other.
Then after he's called me up, I'll ask
him to CALI
She plans this all quite seriously.
and smiles shyly when her partner
hints at a future date.
She is secretly grieved and surprised
to see him thereafter devote his at.
tention to some peppy fiy-away crea.
ture who is teasing all the boys, and
inviting f1ocks of them to large
gathering at her house the following
Sunday.
The boys reasoning is obvious
enough. Evidently the shy little girl
doesn't particularly want to see him.
Well, he's not crazy about her. Just
thought she was cute little thing.
All right, If she hasn't any time for
him, he really can't bother to dance
with her again. He wants to crowd a
lot of good times into his life, and
that snappy little Sally in the red
dress is a perfect peach.
She halls him with joy. kids him
pleasantly all the time he's dancing
with her, and tells him he simply
must join party of 10 at her house
the following Sunday. She's just
dying to have him.
Little old-fashioned violet watches,
resentful and envious.
Little old-fashioned violets are apt
to turn into wallfowers if they're not
careful
tCopyright. 1927
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