Evening star., 1936-01-23
ming Demands Great Care in Table

We each have nice boy
friend with whom we have
been going with steadily for seven
years. While they are apparently very
| much In love with us, they always
put marriage off until the future,
which always seems to get farther and
farther away. They each have fairly
good positions. Although they are
true blue so far as other girls are con-
cerned, we are getting discouraged as
we realize We are getting near the
shelf age and there is still no sign of
wedding bells. Our once ardent love
is gradually fading and we are won-
| dering If it will stand the test much
longer. What do you suggest?
THREE OLD MAIDS.
Answer-My suggestion is TO give
the young gentlemen the air. If at
the end Of seven years weary waiting
they still shy away from the altar.
you may be very sure that they have
no intention whatever of ever head
ing into it.
There are plenty Of men whose at
tentions are without intentions, and
they are one of the problems of court
ship with which inexperienced girls
have to deal, and which they are so
incapable of handling adroitly that it
makes us wish for the good old DAYS
when about the third time a young
man visited a maiden her father took
him aside and asked him if he was
serious or otherwise.
HE technique that these matrimo-
nial deadbeats use is simple
enough. They have good taste and
they pick out girls who are good look
ing, who are companionable, who are
vlvacious and amusing and with whom
they are proud to be seen at places of
amusement. Then they proceed to
monopolize the girls time until they
drive all other men away because
everyone naturally thinks they are
engaged. They make little near-love
and talk vaguely about marriage some
day, but they never get to the pro-
posing point and never name the day.
The Years go on and on. The girl
loses her good looks and her youth and
drifts into old maidenhood. Then
some day the dilatory Boy Friend finds
q younger and fresher girl whom he
marries after a whirlwind courtship
or COURSE, if a girl is so much in
love with man that she is willing |
to waste her youth on a gamble that |
some day her shilly-shallying sweet
heart will come to the point and pop
the question, that's one thing But if |
girl Is just a normal girl who wants |
to marry, settle down and have her
husband, her children and her home,
she is foolish to let any man take up
her time for more than six months
unless he means business.
The custom of keeping company"
is disastrous one for girls 1t gives
the men all the breaks. BY always !
being Johnny-o -the-spot. by assum-
ing the right to be jealous if any other |
man looks at the girl and by monopo-
lizing her society they keep away the |
suitors who would like to marry her, |
and then when they are tired of the |
girl or they see some one they prefer |
they simply fade out Of the picture.
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DEAR MISS DIX-I have an only |
son "a years old. He has been |
going with fine girl-the very one |
would select for him as a wife. But |
lately they have broken up because
they do not feel they should marry
without having something saved up.
My son has job which pays a little
more than sl00 month. He has had .
couple of advancements for his good
work. Now the question is: Shall I
give my Sc 1000 so he and the girl |
can marry? / am in comfortable
circumstances, but not rich. Should
I give him this money now, or leave
it to him when l die? Should let
him lose this splendid girl and maybe
never marry? Are these times when
parents should help their children.
or would help spoil them?
AN UNCERTAIN FATHER.
Answer:
Give the money to the boy right
now so that he can marry this girl
whom he loves and OF whom you ap-
prove 80 highly. II they are forced
apart now, it may be the ruination