Evening star., 1927-11-01
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
STOPPING to Conquer.

Look out, girls. when you stOop to
conquer, that you don't stoop so low
as to lose your balance altogether,
and come hurting down from a splen-
did height.
Betsy says that she isn't doing her.
self the slightest harm in running
around with wild men to wild parties
at wild hours of the night.
She might be doing the wrong
thing, she admits, if it weren't for the
grand and lofty purpose behind all
her madness.
She's doing it all for Jacks sake
Jack is the wavy-haired hero of this
yarn, and Betsy is cross-eyed with
rapture over him.
But he's very naughty boy-very
naughty. He drinks too much, pets
too much, and goes out with the most
awful crowd in the world.
Betsy says he's just too young to
know that he's being naughty. And
in order to keep him by her side, she
goes the pace he sets.
She doesn't want him to think her
a bad sport. Also she doesn't want
to let him out of her sight.
Also she wants to make sure that
he's going to love her, and her alone.
some day.
So she has made herself one of the
crowd of FOUNDERS he loves. She's de.
liberately tried to attract boys in his
crowd. in order to get bids for the
| dances he's going to.
The type of man she has to see. in
order to meet her Jack, is pretty
bad type.
She can hardly bear to go through,
with it. but she's so much in love,
everything seems worth while.
If Jack will only take a tumble to
himself and fall for her with a good
hard crash, she'll soon have him out
Of this wild state of his. She'll teach
him to like nice young people-to en-
joy good dances minus liquor-to fore
go promiscuous petting.
Everything Is going to be rosy when
Jack begins to fall, but until then
Betsy must stoop very low indeed to
get into her boy friends set.
She has to drink hard wood alcohol
most of the time. She has to dance
with tiresome little 'eads whom she's
snubbed most of her life. What's
more, she has to put up with a few
snubs from the girls in the set of
which she's always been part Life
is very unpleasant for our Betsy on
the occasion of those snubs.
And what I'm here to tell her is
that it's going on being unpleasant
for her unless she seeks out some new
method of winning Jacks attentions.
1t may be, just as she says. that
the boy Is young and not really wild.
In thai. case. he'll get over being
crazy about this set of friends he's
taken unto himself. Then she may
have chance to attract his attention
from her own level so to speak.
1t may be that he is naturally suit
ed to the type Of companions he's
| chosen, in which case Betsy will have
gained nothing from her stoop-as
she can't possibly want to marry a
man whose lifelong friends are going
to be the FOUNDERS she despises.
Anyway. she's not doing herself one
iota Of good, reaching down to that
brassy-voiced band Of hoodlums.
She's being classed with them.
Snubs from old friends show that,
she's being known as one of their
bunch. Also she's beginning to be
little bit more like them than she was
| when she first got her big idea.
You can't drink straight alcohol
five evenings a week-you can't learn
to shrek bad language at walters
you can't allow every half-baked
Romeo who dances with you to pet
rather violently and not begin to show
| a rather hard.boiIed exterior
Betsy Is beginning to harden up a
trif1e, and if she continues her grand
system to wean the boy friend away
from his low life-sheIl find herself
so much a part OF that low life there
| won't be any need to dissuade him
from keeping bad company. She'll
be all the bad company he needs.
No, you're stopping too low, Betsy
| my gal. Straighten up and take a
look around
II Jack still looks good to you.
walt for him to get wise to himself
and make break for better compa ny.
No use reaching down any more to
help him up.
Never lose your balance when you
stoop to conquer.
Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries
directed to this paper. provided a stamped.
addressed envelop is incosed. Also she will
he glad to send Food for Conversation" and
How to Overcome Sef-consciousness." Do
you want the new Fashion Hints: Send
stamped addressed envelope.
tcopvriTht. 1927