The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-24

necessarily be a "rube."
Sometimes he's so good that the
city slickers. of both sexes, fail to
recognize him. Take, for example,
this girls letter:
"Dear Miss Fairfax:
Il am getting the laugh all
round from my sO-called friends,
and I'm wondering if you'll give
me enough space in your Girl
Meets Boy series to tell what hap
pened to me. Perhaps / can keep
some other girl from making a
fool of herself.
POPULAR HOSTESS
For several years I've acted as
hostess in a dining and lunch
room. It's not a hi-hat joint, but
plenty of men customers come IN
because the boss feeds them good
stuff. A lot of these guys made
love to me, and 1 had a pretty
swell time, but none of them sug-
Sested the wedding march.
Zone fellow, however, was diff
ferent from the others great
big guy, 6 feet 3, sort of quiet and
gentle and terribly shy. I've often
seen him give money to pay for
q meal when a poor hungry man
would come in begging. The other
men seemed to think he was a
softly for doing this.
"He came to the place for about
four months before he ever tried
to make a date with Inc. Them
right off the bat, he told me one
night he'd been in love with me
from the first time he saw me in
the lunch room. He gave me a
big squ1re-cut diamond ring. l
was such fool thought it was
phOney!
MAN PROPOSES
"He asked me to marry him, as
he was quitting town because his
father had died and he had to take
care of a sheep ranch. He said
they had $4,000 sheep, a good
house, and he'd let me have my
own car.
"A lot of boys give me a fancy
line like that, and / thought this
one was lying, like the rest. And
1 didn't have sense enough to
take his ring to jewelry store to
see if it was real.
$50 I made fun of him to some
of the others, and asked them to
come out and have a lamb chop,
right off the hOOf, when ] married
the boy from t.. great open spaces.
"They began kidding him about
the ranch and the diamond and
the sheep. He told them one night
that he couldn't fight them in the
dining.rOOm, but If they'd come
outside, he'd clean up the whole
bunch. They didn't take up his in
vitatiOn, and he left town.
HE WAS SINCERE
"And then ] discovered ne wasn't
doing any plain or fancy lying at
all. His folks did have a big sheep
ranch, in Texas; the ring was a
real diamond, and had been the
silly goose for not recognizing him
for what he was.
"Now that hes gone away, Miss
Fairfax, / know that / was really
in love with this boy. You see
I'd seen SO much of the cash-and-
carry side of men that I didn't
believe it when he told me about
the ranch and his folks. / was
silly, just as was about the ring.
81 wrote and asked him if he
wanted his ring back, he told me to
keep it, that it might teach me to
recognize the real thing when I
saw it. And he asked me please
not to write to him any more.
GIRL is UNHAPPY
well, Miss Fairfax, I've got my
city slickers and their cash.and-
carry love.making, and passed
up a prince, and believe me, I'm
pretty UNHAPPY"
No, my dear, I don't believe you
really were in love with this man,
because if you had been you
wouldn't have made fun of him.
You feel the way we women do
when we arrive at a department
store and hear that they've sold
out the advertised bargain.
Next time one of these shy, re-
spectful men comes along don't
make fun of him. He may be
another prince.
PUZZLED EX.FIANCE