The Washington times., 1932-03-19
for
LoveIorn
Youth
BY Beatrice Fairfax
Lovers, Step Lively

In love, as in all the big
things of life, it is important to
be able to make up ones mind
completely and to act promptly.
Laggards in love often have
tragic disappointmentS. have
known a man to discover girl
who seemed to him a very
pearl of loveliness and charm,
then brood about her for years,
and finally to present himself
with a cautious and much too
well-considered proposal Of
marriage. There is, Of course
very little chance that such a
man can be successful in his
wooing. A woman likes a more
impetuous lover. She adores,
in fact, to be taken by storm.
It is the recklessly insistent,
rather than the prudently de-
laying suitor, who will win her
every time.
Still, who knows why Ex-
Corporal Isaac P. Carlisle, OF
Pennsylvania, waited 13 years
before making his desperate
effort to rediscover Mademoi-
selle Yvonne Menerat, who once
lived in Rheims, France?
In 1919 Corporal Carlisle was
a member of the A. E. F.. and
Mile. Yvonne was a black-eyed
girl Of twenty. It is easy to
imagine how bewitching she
may have appeared to the young
American soldier, but evidently
they did not become betrothed.
Couldn't the corporal make up
his mind? Or was there some
girl at home to whom he had
made a boyiSh promise?
Anyway, the years rolled by
and ex-Corporal Carlisle did
not forget. Perhaps Nile. Yvonne
didn't entirely forget, either.
When the winter Of 1931-1932 ar
rived, the ex-soldier, rebuffed in
his efforts to find the pretty
French girl who had once lived
in Rheims, advertised day after
day in a Paris newspaper. The
advertisement was a plea that
Mile. Yvonne would write him
at his home address.
When his answer came, it
was the United Press that sup
piled it. Yvonne was married,
living in Lille, and the mother
of three children. Which is
just the way that such stories
usually end.
And the moral, I think, is
one that men need to take to
heart rather more than women.
A girl can usually make a de-
cision that relates to love in
one-tenth the time that a man
can. Shall we say that she
knows her mind better than a
man does? It is rather, I
think, that she knows her own
heart.
In love, the race is to the
swift.
Keeping the Boss In His Place
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I have been working in a law
office for nearly a year. I
have a good position as secre-
tary to one of the best lawyers
in our city. I am now faced
with the problem of either
being a little free toward my
boss (who is a married mani
or losing my position. Most
girls these days don't mind a
few harmless kisses with a
married man, and I don't want
to be narrow or prejudiced
along this line. Jobs are hard
to find here and it would break
my heart if had to give up
mine now. However, I have a
conscience that just says "No."
SALLY LOU.
This is a situation that will
take ingenuity to manage. But
I believe a clever girl like your
= self can come out with flying
colors. If the man has any
sense Of fair play, he will re-
Spect you for holding him at
a distance; but if he hasn't
even in spite of the difficulty
in getting jobs, I am going to
advise you to look for some
other job in your spare mo-
ments. You will find it, too.