Evening star., 1939-03-09
Girls Refute
Gold>Digger
Reputation
Resent Masculine
Complaints About
Expensive Dates
By JOAN FORTUNE and
NORTON HUGHES JONATHAN

In today's column we're publishing
the interesting comments of several
readers. A maid with a chip on
both shoulders goes to bat first, re-
plying to the authors (male) of
recently published letter. Signing
themselves The Wolves" these lads
walled about the high cost of dating.
Now let's have the feminine side of
the problem:
Dear Wolves:
I'm a girl of 18 who enjoys good
times, too. but I can't agree with you
when you complain that my sex
doesn't realize that there is a re-
preston going on. 1t doesn't always
take money to provide good times,
does it?
Many girl enjoys doing her own
entertaining. inviting a boy to call
on her at home, but very few fellows
are willing to help, and some of you
have the idea that further away
from girls home you stay, the
better off you'll be. You're wrong
there
If you insist on twosomes, your
dates will often be expensive-but
combine some of the twosomes (three
or four couples) and think of the
fun you can have-parties, picnics
and hikes, in season. None of these
good times cost much in actual cash.
MY own crowd is an example of
what l mean. There are five couples
In it, and we get together at some
ones house every Saturday night
for an informal party, with the few
expenses divided between the 10 of
us. No gold-digging here!
Every girl enjoys having her
friends drop in once or twice a
month for games, dancing. talking
and eating-for an all-around good
time. Encourage the girls you know
to entertain in this way by sincerely
appreciating their efforts-then re-
clprocate with a movie or dance date
When you can afford to do so,
When you can't afford these dates.
frankly say So
A BUSYBUG.
"The Wolves" inspired other maids
and one lone male to give us their
opinions. Here's what fellow who
calls himself Tyrone Taylor" has
to say:
Il think that the Wolves are
wrong. There are gold-diggers, to
be sure, but they can always be
avoided, like rattlesnakes. Few girls
that I know (and I have dated
dozens) belong in that hideols
classification.
Most girls seem willing enough
to suit their tastes in entertain
ment to a fellows pocketbook. I've
taken them to free entertainments,
free radio broadcasts and free con-
certs and lectures when I couldn't
afford the price of a movie ticket
or five gallons of gasoline, and I'm
under the impression that they en-
Joyed themselves. At least, they
said they did.
I've discovered that the money
a boy spends isn't really very i'm
portant. It seems to me that it's
his attitude toward the girl and
the date that counts most in the
long run. If he does everything
he can to give her good time,
and If he does all he can to make
the most of the resources he does
have, the girl won't hold lack of
money against him."
TYRONE TAYLOR.
X X X X
Discerning Madeline's views differ
from those expressed in the other
letters. She wrote us:
IF the boys believe that many
girls are interested chiefly in the
money they spend on them, perhaps
we have only ourselves to blame.
I am aware of the fact that too
many of my sex innocently give
boys the wrong impression. BY
talking too much about the more
expensive good times they've en-
joyed in the past, they frighten
the less affluent boys away"
MADELINE.