Evening star., 1935-05-30
rvatons on Subjects Important to Washington Women
Dorothy Dix Says
What's the Matter With Friends That
They Don't Respond?

the elementary riiles NJ GOOD man
ners. After making a date with .
girl, they stand her up without even
offering any excuse or letting ner
know that they are not coming. Ppr~
haps weeks after she spent an evening
waiting for the boy who did not come
he will casually say: "Oh, I INTENDED
calling you up and telling you thai
the affair was off, but I forgot IT,"
We often have boys call up a half
hour before the dinner which has been
prepared for them and have them saw
that they are not coming. They don't
bother even to make any excuse NV
daughter very seldom has lettsr
answered. Boys go off 10 college and
make her promise 10 write In them.
which she does, hut they don't AXE
the time TO answer. What's rhe mat
Ter with them? Why didn't their
mothers teach them the decent thinga
10 life? A GIRLS MOTHER
Answer don't know why nnothers
don't teach their boys good manners.
nor DO know Why girls mothers DON'T
teach their daughters 10 have enough
self-respect 10 resent the bows lack
Of snnerS.
EOR the thing that is fbe matrer
with the bows is that tbev are
spoiled rotten bv the girls. who are
so anxious to have dates that thew
will permit the bows 10 put any sort
of affront upon them. II the girla
had enough spunk and backbone 10
stage a rebellion, they could make
boys treat them with the respect that
men used 10 show TO women.
Do you suppose that hov would
dare TO break g. date with a girl
without adequate cause II he knew
that the next time he wanted 10 rake
her somewhere she would urn him
down good and f1at? Do you Suppose
bows would insult their hosteSSeS nv
not coming 10 dinners il they knew
they would never be invited again -
hose houses? Do you suppose p nov
would fail to answer letters il ne
knew that his girl correspondents
would never drop him a second line
until they had heard from him?
NO. A Thousand rimes M. II Is
because the girls are so meek snd
humble and consider il such an horor
10 be noticed bv snv little plp-Souest
thar they have 10 lake whatever treat
ment their lords and masters accord
them.
Whenever I hear a girl "a uIn9 10
a boy AND making a dste with h,n1
ano throwing in the tickets 10 the foot
ball game, or the movies, or ~harnob.
and offering 10 come for him in her
car, could weep with shame for her.
and ! don't wonder that half rhe tjne
the boy is so disguised with her that
ne refuses 20 go.
WHEN I see mother making he,
house q restaurant for bows who
DON'T even speak 70 her as they would
70 head waiter or cook, ! don 1
wonder that Uhev treat her like SerV-
ant. And when hear of girls writ
ing 10 boys first and keeping on deIu2-
ing them with letters that they don 1
even answer, I am not surprised thai
bows get such cases of SUelleo head
that, when they notice girl at all
they do it with the condescending air
of the sultan throwing his hsndker-
chief to the fsVorite of the hour.
am not defending The manners NJ
: the Young men of to6sy Heaven
knows thev have none 20 defend, bin
! it is because girls make themselves &c
cheap that young men hold tbenSelve,
so dear. DOROTHY DIX.
! tCopyrighL 1851