Evening star., 1938-01-04

get q IuSDdilu dIlu WHY IilcIl
- are SO much less inclined to
marry nowadays than they were In the
past I can give them one reason. 1t
is because girls have discarded so many
OF the little refinements that made
them desirable to men. For instance:
Recently in a crowded restaurant I
was seated opposite young girl. AS
soon as she was through her meal
she got out something that I believe
they call "a pack" and commenced
grooming her face. eyebrows and lips
and combing her hair. This operation
took minutes, after which she stored
away her tools and pulled out a pack
age of cigarettes and began blowing
smoke In my face. Such conduct is,
OF course, common among young girls.
but it shows total absence Of good
manners and consideration for others;
of delicacy of feeling and everything
that a young man would wish for in
his wife. Hence the increase in bach
elors. JOHN B. de C.
Answer-Your experience is a COM
mon one, for you cannot nowadays 60
into any restaurant without observing
a dozen women making up their faces
and flayoring the food Of those about
them with stray hairs and dandruff as
they comb out their curls or reset their
water waves.
The sight would be repulsive if it
were not so amusing. After these
ladies who make their toilets in public
have painted fresh roses on their
cheeks, and applied another coat of
calcimine and daubed more rouge on
their lips, an expression OF complete
self satisfaction and admiration steals
over their countenances as If they
said to themselves: Here, now, is the
perfect exemplification of feminine
pulchritude. If you want to see Miss
America, look at me-"
Surely the artist Is worthy of her
hire and we should not begrudge' even
the hairs in our soup to the fellow citi-
zen who has got so much joy In doing
up her face and feeling that she has
made herself irresistible to ali be-
holders. But, like you, do find it
disenchanting. I wish that they
would do 1t in private: that some
genius would invent a complexion that
would stay on, and that was weather.
proof and kissproof.
X X X X
MO DOUBT the modern generation
of young men, to whom none OF
the defects Of the feminine person are
hidden, take q girls making up her
face in public as matter Of course,
but. nevertheless, 1t is great mis-
take on the girls part, because it is
such q complete giveaway. It reveals
her trade secret. It dosen't leave
man guessing at whether a girls bloom
Of youth comes out Of bottle or by
nature, and whether her golden locks
are the gift Of God or are only hers
by right Of purchase. He has seen
her DO her transformation act and
while that may be honest, it isn't good
business for the girl.
Once upon time heard some men
OF the world discussing what was
subtlety in . woman. One of them
said that 1t consisted in q man being
married to a woman for 20 years
without ever finding out If her teeth
were her own or not. That idea still
holds, in spite Of all the practically
Of today. Men are still fascinated by
the things they don't know about
women. They still like women to be
mysterious and women make q fatal
mistake when they throw away their
40 wells Of illusion.
Girls today are just Is good looking
rs they ever were. They are far bet
ter educated and more intelligent and
interesting as companions, but there
is no denying that they are less at
| tractive to men. They have fewer
dates and find 1t harder to get mar
| ried. The reason Is, think. because
they have made themselves too famil-
lar to men, they have become too
commonplace and unromantic. They
have become chunls instead Of lady
loves.
! Men used to risk their lives climb
Ing up to . lady's tower. Now they