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Little Talks by
Beatrice Fairfax
? Have been thinking about an
">ut-of-the-ordinary letter that a
young woman wrote me the other
day. She wrote from the city where
she has successfully supported her
self for a number of years, and she
remarked, in a very direct, clear
eyed way:
"I wonder if you have found out
anything that has surprised you
about the sophistication necessary
to guide a young woman through
the village opportunities for sin as
compared to the city, also about the
,ally clever and studied efforts of
he village Don Juan as compared to
ihe city man?"
And she speaks of the earlier life
in a busy office in the small town
where she was born as "the best
training possible for enabling a girl
to resist temptation."
There is honesty and good sense
in this letter and there is character,
too; for the writer thinks of her
own difficult experiences as so many
lessons in self-jirotection. She feels
that she has been exposed to all the
dangers that threaten reckless, im
petuous girlhood, but that she is
merely wiser and safer for knowing
about them. She has gotten a kind (
of immunity.
Knowledge the Best Shield
Doubtless there wouldn't be any
boy-and-girl tragedies If every young
girl were as self-eontt'olled and sane
as my correspondent is. And of
course she is right in maintaining
that knowledge is a far better shield
than ignorance.
But what I wish to emphasize is
the distinction that she draws be
tween village and city life.
It is too often taken for granted
that a girl who comes to earn her
living in the city is immediately be
set with every form of luring temp
tation.
Her innocent acquaintances "back
home" think of her as plunged In
the center of an unending carnival,
distinctly flame-colored, and they
scarcely think it possible that she
can escape without becoming just
the least bit scorched.
Whereas the truth probably is
that the only people she sees arc In
the subway and at her otiice. That
she comes home overtired and is
glad to go to bed at 9 o'clock. That
she is lonely, dull and bored. And
that if anybody from home—some
body who knew all the news and
spoke her language and understood
her allusions—would look her up
some evening, she would like it bet
ter than anything in the world.
Humdrum City Life
Life in a city can be just as hum
drum as life in a small place, and it
can be a good deal more lonely. It is
quite possible, as many girls know,
to live for a long time in a city with
out knowing any young man in a
social way.
And if a girl is very careful about
her acquaintances and if she has,
besides, as much backbone as the
young correspondent I have already
quoted, I don't think the young
people who are idling about the
home village need worry about her.
it must be remem'bered that if the
working girl who has gone to the
city is busier than the one who has
stayed at home, the young men
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The reason Vinol was so success
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Almost everybody nowadays knows
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falling hair and itching scalp, or
the cost, small as it is, will be re
funded.
But you should know more about
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come from the excretions of the
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application, no matter how hot the
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Everyone should have a bottle of
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hair treatment. Ladies use it be
cause they know it is delicately per
fumed, not sticky or greasy, and
Mirely does make the hair beautiful,
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vet In that time find my hair has
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A large bottle of Parisian sage
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whom she will meet there ar.e no
less occupied.
And that the busy youth, ettKer
interested in his job or occupied
with the problem of making a living,
isn't likely to be the one who will
misuse the privilege of her acquaint
ance. Interested busy-ness is the most
wholesome thing for young people
and the best possible protection'
against all the sad things that follow
in the trail of "temptations" yield
ed to.
But if it is a little absurd to think
of the city girl as engaged in a daily
combat with vice, it is also wide ot'
the mark, as my wise young corre
spondent has pointed out, to take it
for granted that village life, is the
equivalent of a nunnery.
Village Life No Nunnery
A village girl's life isn't a mere
alternation of dusting the parlor and
going to the Christian Endeavor So
ciety. Unless she has very strongly the
temperament of the recluse," she
shares what there is of boy and girl
companionship. And there is usually
a good deal.
Unchaperoned intimacy is, of
course, the rule in the American
village, and in the case of whole
some, normal boys and girls there
isn't a word to be said against the
custom. But it is to be admitted
that villages and small towns aren't
altogether free of a less pleasant
type of male—the unwholesome
minded idler who makes it his pas
time, in fact his businss, to present
"temptation" to young girls.
Such a man or such a boy, or per
haps more than one, is practically
sure to be found in any quiet, lei
surely community. Perhaps he can't
accomplish any greater harm than
temporary unhappiness. Undoubted
ly he cannot, if the girl has knowl
edge and good sense. But it's just as
well to realize that he is a pretty un
varying feature of small town life.
And if we are generalizing about the
dangers to which girls are exposed,
it is better to face the fact that the
girl who has never left her native
village has nevertheless her own
problems and difficulties, and that if
she has cheerfully and sensibly sur
mounted them it is greatly to her
credit.
Most wise and thoughtful people
of the present day would, I am sure,
advise the mothers of young girls to
fortify them as carefully as possible
against probable dangers.
A girl is, of course, happy in be
lieving that romance is waiting just
around the corner and that a six
months' decorous courtship, follow
ed by a pretty wedding and life in
a charmingly furnished flat with the
one right man in the world, are to
constitute her love experience.
But it doesn't always happen that
way. And if she meets other than
the right man and becomes confus
ed by her own emotions, she ought
nevertheless to know that there is
always one direct course to take,
and she should have the courage to
take it. Preparation for possible un
happy encounters is what every
mother ought to give her daughter.
I am inclined to believe that the
girl who wrote me so cheerfully
about the educative value of experi
ence must have had a wise and far
sighted mother.
COLD PACK METHOD
IN 12 SHORT STEPS
No. 8
NATIONAL
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says the National War Garden Con
mission of Washington, which •:
send you a free tanning book iov
two-cent stamp to pay postaE'- -
Watch for step No. 9.
LIFE'S PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED
By MRS. WILSON WOODROW
Everywhere you go these Summer
days you see the soldier and his
girl, and we observe them with a
very different feeling than that with
which we used to regard the Summer
lovers of other years at the beaches
and parks, or on ferryboats, trains
or trolley cars.
Then it was with a sort of amused
tolerance at. the best that we used
to survey them, but now it is with
sympathy and a kindly interest.
Yet the situation so tar as the
principal actors is concerned is not
materially altered. They still cling
to each other in fond embrace heed
less of the passing multitude the
world forgetting if not by the world
entirely forgot.
Nor is the girl changed to any
noticeable degree. She is still to
all intents and purposes the same
eternal "summer girl." The cut of
her skirt may change and the style
of her blouse and her hat. and her
hosiery; she may vary from season
to season between pumps and ties,
between suede and buckskin. But
her type remains rtxed and unalter
able as the laws of the Medes and
Persians.
The great difference is that the
arm which encircles her is sleeved
in khaki instead of near Palm Beach,
and that the head which bends pro
tectingly above her is crowned with
a campaign hat instead of a guar
anteed Panama from New Jersey.
All the difference, in fact, between
"Bobby" Jones who was particular
about the color of his soeks and the
crease of his trouser and Private R.
Jones one of the husky doughboys of
Uncle Sam.
Where are all those "advanced
dressers" and "tango hounds" and
"would-be sports" we used to see?
Where are the snows of yesterday?
It's more than a mere shift of clothes.
There's-something gone into those
young fellows which has affected the
whole warp and woof of their be
ing. It shows in the steady set of
their bronzed faces in the level,
serene gaze which meets your own.
And it makes you proud to be an
American.
The soldier has always held an at
traction for the feminine heart. Even
hack' in the days of mythology it
was Mars who won the Goddess of
Love and Beauty and Shapespeare
makes Othello, with all his handi
caps, the favored suitor of the love
ly Desdemona. As he explains It,
"She loved me for the dangers I had
passed, and I loved her that she did
pity them."
But there's more than the tradi
tional fascination of the brass but
tons about these lads. Never were
there such soldiers before. Just
think of it. They are the picked
manhood of the nation, physically
perfect every one of them, to begin
with, and brought by a careful regi
men of diet and training into the
very pink of athletic condition fit
and keen as so many race horses
groomed for a Derby.
And beyond all that, it's an army
with a soul. This is a holy war,
and every man of them feels it.
They are Crusaders all, enlisted In
the cause of humanity and freedom.
They show it in their zest and en
thusiasm. in the stalwart pride of
their bearing. It glows within them
like a flame.
What an evolution this vear has
wrought! With what different eyes
do we regard the "Bobby" Joneses
of our acquaintance, and the breed
of "Bobby' Jones in general. Then
it was with scant respect and a not
entirely unmerited disapprobation.
But to-day they are our hope and
pride; they carry our prayers and ad-
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oration. And they deserve every bit
of the homage that we give them.
And 1 think that is one of the rea
sons why we smile so sympathetical
ly upon the open love-making in the
parks and on the trolley cars this
summer instead of viewing such dem
onstrations as we did in the past with
an impatient:
"What can that pretty young girl
see in such a brainless-looking
whippersnapper?,"
The whippersnapper has become a
splendid young warrior whom we
realize that no daughter of Eve could
possibly resist. Possibly we have a
subconscious realization, too, that the
soldier with his changed ideal and
his wholesome, healthy outlook
upon life, with his imposed restric
tions and those of his own self-re
spect, is a far safer companion for
her than his counterpart of a twelve
month ago, was chiefly engaged in
sowing a crop of wild oats. As he is
without fear, he is also without re
proach. "The bravest are the tender
est. the loving are the daring."
Ah, the augury for our country's
future that this mighty army gives
these young men with their free
swinging stride and their hardened
muscles and their aroused spirit of
valor and devotion!
1 sometimes wish that our girls
could have been drafted, too and
put through a similar experience.
The . r ?u c . a l he no criticism of the
part that American woman have play
ed in this war. They have responded
to every call, they have volunteered
f. V£ e x los .K a . rt!u< ?H? duty - Yet might
' wlth a general con-
s m c ' p ' lo . n for service our daughters
might be even more worthy to stand
beside our sons. Under such a sys
tem even the leopard might change
g ggte° summer girl lost her
Advice to the Lovelorn
. „ INVESTIGATE
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
fnlJ am ern Pl°yed as telephone opera
tor and secretary and have been in
my present position for two vears.
iV* r ® J® a y°ns man, who 1 am
gi\en to understand is married, who
Sf5 ee J?.J? er,, £ t ? ,t in his attentions
to me. although I have repeatedly re
pulsed them. He has gone so far as
to ask to call on me.
As I have no relative to whom I
could turn, I would appreciate your
valuable advice.
... WORRIED.
ii this young man Is married of
course you do not want to start a 'dir.
tation with him. The thing I like is
that he has asked to call on you in
your own home. If you have anv
.. ui ' why don 't you quietly
tell him of the rumor you have heard
and in a dignified and sensible wav
ask for the truth? Can you not In
vestigate through the men in your of
fice? Girls take great risks when thev
start up affairs with fellow employes
of whom they know practically noth
ing and of whom they have heard un
favorable things. Your own sus
picion would seem to be a sort of
warning. Proceed slowly, and be very
very careful.
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