Evening star., 1937-12-30
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EAR MISS DIX: ! go to q
coed college where the boys
outnumber the girls two to
one, and the girls take ad-
vantage Of their fewer number to
demand an ultra time when the boys
take them out. I see very little Of
the fairer sex, as I am working my
way through school and work in the
oil fields during the summer. Are
all girls that inaccessible everywhere?
Some day I wish to have that cottage
Of which every man dreams. When
I do, will I find . fair-looking and
fairly intelligent girl to live in it
with me, or do all girls demand .
palace instead Of q cottage? What
are my chances? BOB.
Answer-Finding the girl is cer-
tainty. You can't miss her II you
are as set on marrying as you seem
to be. Girls In these days have quit
looking for Fairy Princes, with pal
aces up their sleeves. and are glad
to get a nice, outstanding, industrious
lad who can provide them with q
bungalow.
Don't Judge other girls by your
snooty co-eds. They are just Afford
ing you another illustration of the
way the law of supply and demand
works out. When there are more
boys than girls every girl Is belle
and can be choosy and insist upon
being taken to high-priced places OF
amusement. When the ratio Of the
sexes Is reversed and girls are plenti-
full and boys are few, they are all
pdaying the old maids prayer: Lord,
send me man, any man."
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YOU won't believe me, but I am
telling you the truth, that it is
your good fortune that in your school
days you are out OF the running with
the girls For one thing. 1t gives
you . chance to put your mind on
your books instead Of women's looks.
Hence you are liable to get an edu-
cation and that Is something that
will be to your gain as long as you
live.
For another thing, it will keep you
from getting into a messy love affair
before you are old enough to know
what you want in a wife, or have
Judgment enough to pick one out.
At your age every boy is in love
with love and he imagines every girl
who comes along is it. Before he
knows 1t he has told her so and, as
some one has said, tiled a knot with
his tongue that he can't unite with
his teeth
Also, in most coed institutions en-
gagements are as contagious as the
measles. They are an annual epi-
demic that runs through the school,
with fatal results to thousands of
young men who are forced into mar
riage before they are ready for it..
This causes many other thousands of
young men pain in the neck and
lots Of worry before they wiggle out
Of an affair after they have gotten
away from her and found out that she
wasn't it after all.
Wait until after you are through
college and have a good job and have
that cottage ready, and you won't
have any difficulty in finding a wife
to share it with you. BY that time
you will probably have enough sense
to select the kind OF wife you need
and want.
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NEAR MISS DIX: I am girl 81
years old and training to be a
nurse I love my profession, but I
love q boy of my own age equally as
well. AS it is impossible to get mar
ried while In training We want to
elope and keep it quiet until I gradu-
ate. The man has a good job as q
salesman and Is out Of town most of
the time. Being away so much I am
afraid he might fall for some one
else. If We were married he would
be under an obligation and wouldn't
have as much chance to 60 around as
he does now. Will you please tell me
Just what to do. NURSE.
Answer: I don't think 1t IS very
square shooting for you to double-cross
your hospital by marrying on the sly
when you agreed not to marry while
you were in training, do you? So
my advice to you Is to either give up
your training as q nurse or put of the
wedding until you can honorably
marry.