Evening star., 1940-04-06

Lear MISS OlA-CdIl you lell ult
what to do with boy who just sim.
ply won't go home at reasonable
hour? He is gentlemanly and gooc
looking, but you can't be interested
in a person when your eyes are
dropping shut for want of sleep. NJ
matter how much yawn in his fact
and tell him how late I have beer
up every night for a week, he ig-
nores the hint. and there am vir-
tually in coma with boredom.
can hardly throw him out of the
house bodily. What should we girls
do with the night hawks?
WEARY VILLA.
Answer: Heaven knows. 1t is g
problem. For when a man is sc
enamored of the sound of his own
voice that he can never get enough
of listening to himself talk there is
nothing that a poor girl can do un-
less she hires professional bouncer
to chuck him out of the door at ii
o'clock. In my young days one OF
the chief functions of father was
to call time on lingering young men
who outstayed their welcome, but
fear that wholesome custom has
gone into the discard along with
family prayers and saying grace at
the table. There are many things
that we did better in the horse and
buggy days than they do now, and
not the least of these was curtalllng
the length of the visit OF the boy
friend and thus giving girls time to
get their beauty sleep and permit
ting boys to get needed rest before
tackling their jobs the next morn
ing. Maybe it is because boys got
more sleep then than they do now
that there seemed to be more ris-
ing young business men then than
there are now.
But aside from the consideration
Of the sufferings of the poor girl
who has to endure agonies OF bore
dom listening to the drivel OF the
man who stays on and on, when
the only thing on earth she wants
is to go bye-bye, how dull-wltted
must be the youth who does not
realize that instead of making q
hit with the maiden, he is only
inspiring an almost irresistible de-
sire in her to hit him with some
thing hard enough to send him to
the hospital! Some casualty that
will send him out of the house!
For none of us are such spell
binders that we can hold our audi
ence entranced hour after hour
After we have shot our bolt, how
thin the conversation gets that has
to be stretched out interminably
How short we run of topics after
we have fed the mill for an un-
conscionably long time! How any
one pals on our appetites after we
have gotten enough of them!
Certainly any young man makes
the mistake of his life if he thinks
he can make himself popular with
girl by making calls that run
into visitations. Thirty minutes il
as long as any one can keep the
fascination turned on, and an houl
is the extreme time limit during
which any youth can inject pep into
a conversation.
Short visits make long friends
says the old adage, to which may
be added for the benefit of young
men that the shorter the call the
bigger the impression they make
In half an hour any youth can say
all that he has to say that is worth
listening to, and all that any CIR
wants to hear, unless he is popping
the question. If he is sidesteppine
this topic, his cue, If he wants tt
be popular, is to make a quick get.
away.
So take this tip from me, boys
Make your calls brief, and wher
a girl gets you on your feet when vol
go to see her, or when she begin!
to look at the clock or turns or
the radio, 1t Is time to leave. Ane