Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11

choice becomes q larry prince
: " because he takes her 70 parties
to the theater, brings her
flowers and other gifts. She looks at the world
through rose-colored glasses which turn reality
Mto romance. Happy, thoughtless, pleasure
loving gay. she is a child beyond the age Of
being treated as one. ALI argument against
her hero Is met with such logic as:
Mother mother hold your tongue;
Yoa had beau phen you toere young.
Nobody can explain it, but debutantes and
others far from being in that class find the
tender passion kindled by the unusual way a
man does trivial things. She will love him
for the way he combs his hair; the heavenly
blue color of his eyes; the air of worldliness
with which he orders lunch for two" A great
woman once told me that in her day she mad
been heetingly in love with at least 400 men,
and each attraction sprang from just such
small things as these.
For that matter, little fapper will adore
q youth for his profuse offerings Of ice-cream
soda or again, thirsting for the education
which she has not, will worship Tor some big
word he uses and which, to her mind makes
him the intellectual equal of the President
Perhaps all this is what poets call being In
love with love-
At a house party 1 attended the son of the
family was handsome boy Of Is. still in
knickerbockers girl, aged IA. arrived on the
scene She had blosSomed into state or
soUhistication to which he was o stranger.
A girl of IA is in that line the peer Of a boy OF
90 Promptly she fell head over heels in love
with him Why? She told me herself when
she exclaimed What boy to take to parties
in 'longies'! How jealous all the other girls
would bel"
IF at IS, for instance, girl sees in man the
] same adventurous spirit that she has herself
she will marry him and be content to live in
rIo ny1f O heir IL
tanning the great things Of which she feels him
capabIe But at 80 woman'S ideal Is quite
changed She wants, instead OF man VINO
will eventually get there. one who has arrived
II she has been to college and later entered
q profession or business with some success the
situation fits her TO demand it.
AT 30 woman has certainly learned me-
The fairy prince and fluff of parties and the
like will not mean complete happiness 10 her.
She brings to the ideal of her choice man OF
position and resources, the outcome OF her ex-
perience and broadened views that make the
exchange a fair one. She can be to him as
helpful in sustaining his career as 3 the glrI
Of IS to her struggling hero
THERE are three distinct types Of the woman
of 30 And before considering them we
must remember that today woman OF 80 Is
not looked on as the woman of IS was even
decade ago. She is neither old nor hopeless
spirster sitting against the wall at dances, II
she is allowed to go at all. Gaining an educa-
tion may have engaged her to beyond the age
OF 90 following this she has done worthwhile
things herself.
Her ideal will be the man who supposedly
has attained what she herself has done in
some degree He must be genuinely successful
NOT only for the money he commands put
also TO help her out of her own disappointment
If she has fallen short of exactly what she
hoped to be. If on the other hand her success
has been brilliant the man OF her ideal must
he more successful than she has been. There
are few women who do not want to look up 10
the man they marry.
The second type of woman OF 30 has usually
remained unmarried because of her ambition.
A day comes when loneliness Is depressing.
Ambition and achievement do not satisfy her.
She is still romantic. longs for home ana
companionship and finds her ideal in middle
aged man considerably older than herself, to
whom life has brought point OF view identical
with hers.
third type at 80 has never really quite
made I'D her mind as to what her ideal Is. AT
any rate she has built on false foundations.
She is both pretty and charming. Her admirers
have been plenty. To her the supply OF them
seems Iimitless 1t has been too difficult Tor
her to come down to earth and make choice
One day she finds a suspicion Of wrinkles or
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