KITTLE TALKS BY
WBEA TRICE FAIRFAX
employers of young girls are
fascinating and unscrupulous
must be thousands of plain,
unbegulling, business-worshlp-
men among them, who never
of flirting in their lives,
even know whether a girl
is good looking, and
no more think of asking
Hut to dinner than of asking the
.'■ cabinet to dance with them.
San office position isn't necessar
9, experience of gTeat peril for a
girl.
be a great pity if that
ear-old with starry eyes
hair were too eelf
■ious about the whole situation
first Monday morning that
Hs eummoned to her new em-
desk.
office life need by no m e * n "
■,p any strongly personal side.
■ deal better off if It doesn t. A
works in an office filled
■ men ought to be as impersonal
typewriting machine. Or to
■o be.
yet—however hard a girl may
■> avoid them, troublesome prob
|Hdo have a way of arising, dts-
dilemmas do present
Letters reach me almost daily
■ fine, sweet girls, who are seri
al worried by the personal ele
■ that has crept into their rela-
their employer. They find
in uncomfortable situa
|^Bthat they themselves don't un- |
■stand, much less know how to
And they ask for help
There's no doubt but
need it.
Employer'! Advantage
■ only too apparent that the em
ir who makes pretty speeches to
—whether it is to
ilia her charming confusion, or to
to work overtime, or wheth-
even be that he is falling in
iHwtth her—has an advantage on
■,n't he hold the means of live- ,
■l in his very hand? He engages
He discharges. He is powerful, j
■n't want to offend him. 1 ;
Hwant to lose my positlcm." are
IjHhrases that occur over and over .
letters.
he's usually much older than {
Hand far more experienced. If !
■hr kind of a man who is skilled j
Hfling with a girl, while meaning
;Hng. the girl herself is merely
She doesn't even know |
■er he's trying to make himself ,
in a strange, disturbing. I
way—or whether he is
things she shouldn't permit,
eighteen-year-old girl whose
is twice her age knows
she should do when he de
: the habit of making flattering
on her appearance?
how can she be otherwise
■ at a loss when he begins as
do, to make her pres-
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her with propriety. Perhaps they
are not. She wishes she knew.
The next step is that he asks her
to dinner and the theatre.
Shall She Dine With Him?
And this is rather too much for
her. Though she dislikes being con
sidered a prude, she thinks she
oughtn't to do this. And she tells
him so. So he takes some trouble to
convince her that there's no ground
whatever for her scruple and that
he is offering her the most innocent i
pleasure in the world.
He doesn't always succeed in con
vincing her. But he usually suc
ceeds in persuading her to go, which
is a different matter.
But why shouldn't she go? some
one will ask. Why shouldn't a young
girl who drudges all day accept
whatever distraction is offered her
when work hours are over?
That's easily answered.
In the first place, employers have
a habit of being married. It is true
that married employers who invite
girl stenographers out to dinner
usually explain that their wives are
out of town or hopeless invalids or
something of the sort. But does
this lessen the injury to the girl's
reputation that repeated dinners and
theatres In his company will bring
about?
But even- if he isn't married,
there s only one chance in a thou
sand that he has any other purpose
than a .dangerous flirtation. And
the outcome of this will be that the
unsophisticated girl, flattered, fas
cinated, dazzled, will find herself
seriously' in love with a man who
has no intention of marrying her.
lou see. it's playing with fire—that
game as old as the world.
To all girls who hold positions
under men employers, I have to
offer a bit of prosaic advice. I beg
them to keep their heads.
Impersonal Hole Safest
Do your best from the beginning!
to be impersonal, as 1 suggested. If
Jou are so highly attractive and
jour emploj-er so susceptible that
this won't work— if he insists on
talking to j-ou as though >~ou were
a prettj* woman and not a piece of
office furniture—try not to take his
advances seriously. You may be sure
he is not serious in making them.
Trj - to be older and wiser than
you are. Don't let it all fluster j-ou. !
You have your own life to lead as j
well as your own living to make. !
lou can't afford to let j'ourself be
even- the least bit emotionally up- j
set b>- a man who means nothing.
Being cool-headed is an excellent i
Policy. It will do a great deal for,
you. It will discourage office flirta
tion to a great extent. But it won't
do everything.
A girl may be v<trfectl>' discreet
In her conduct and yet find herself
lrrestibly influenced by the delight
fully personal conversation of the
good looking man at the large desk
in the inner office.
The day even comes when she
knows she's in love with him.
'What shall I do?" she asks me
In dismay and fear.
There's only one thing to do—
whether you're in love with your
married employer, or your employer
persistently tries to flirt with you.
You must give up your position.
I wish girls had more courage
about taking this step. I know it
isn't always easy to find a new job.
But a week or so out of work is
nothing compared to a serious emo
tional entanglement that may lessen
your working capacity for a long
time.
Drop the whole thing. Get out of
the office atmosphere. It's the only
way. Try to be a big, strong, free
woman, and don't let the course of
your life be turned aside by a man
who's merely using you as a pastime.
Advice to the Lovelorn
SHALL SHE SI'I'PItKSS TRUTH"
Dear Miss Fairfax
A while ago met a man I liked!
and was engaged to him. When
we went to France I met another,
whom I have since grown to care for
Before I got up courage to write to
my first friend something happen
ed to the other one that makes it
impossible for us to ever marry
He advises me to take the first man
and not to say anything about him
I have decided to take the first
because I want you to advise mei
whether to tell him about mv other!
friend. You see if I tell him "he will
always doubt me after we are mar
ried. What shall I do?
Undecided .
Is it possible for a girl to trans
fer her love back and forth as
rapidly as this. I cannot believe
that your feeling toward the first
man is deep enough to justify vou!
in marrying him but if it is you
ought not to do so without telling
him what happened in his absence.
There is no other honorable course.
COQUETRY PUSHED TOO EAR
Dear Miss Fairfax
I met young man I liked very
much, but not wanting him to think
I was chasing him I put him off
when he proposed to take me to
the theaters, or other entertaln
men and when he asked to call.
But I must have gone too far for
when I meet him and talk with him
during business hours he sticks to
business and never mentions our
affairs. Now, Miss Fairfax as 11
like this j-oung man very much,
would like to make up with him |
again, but as before do not want him !
to think I am running after him, as I
I might add he has all the qualities I
that are supposed to make girls do
that.
M. T.
Unravelling a situation that one
has knotted up one's.self is a diffi
cult affair. In this case, I should
think you would have to proceed
rather warely. Begin by inviting
the young man to some group affair
where wou will not necessarily see
him alone.
DIFFICULT CHOICE
Mr. Plowden, the well-known London
magistrate, was once questioning the
wife of a notorious burglar. "You are
wife of this man?" he asked. "Yes."
You knew he was a'burglar when you
married him?" "Yes." "How came you
to contract a marriage with such a
man?" "Well," the woman explained.
"I was getting old, and I had to chose
between him and a lawyer."
Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918 ; International News Service BIJ CZITIZ^
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LIFE'S PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED
She is eighteen, and sometimes
she gets so discouraged and un
happy that she would Just like to
run away and live on a desert island
all by herself.
"When 1 compare myself with
other girls," she writes, "I seem to
exist, not to live. In what way? In
every way."
Then she goes on to sketch her
self in broad strokes of drab. "I
am motherless, and my father,
brother and myself keep house to
gether. It is not much of a home.
I am not employed at present, and
when I was did not have a very
good position. In fact, I spent
most of my time knocking about
from one position to another.
"The trouble was, that I was
never in good health, and I still
am a sufferer from weak nerves and
a general run-down condition, al
though few people would believe it
to look at me, for I am by no
means of the pale, enMciated type.
On the contrary, most persons con
sider me attractive.
"About a year ago. I decided to j
take up a course In physical culture 1
in the hope that it would benefit me.
I was so desperate at that time that
1 was ready to try almost unything;
and I thought if I could only achieve
good health it would not be so
difficult for me to earn my own liv
ing and to bear m>- other troubles.
"The course required a lot of
patience, determination and ef
fort. I cannot deny that it did me
some good, but if, as I began to feel
better, I stopped following instruc
tions 1 immediately slipped back
again. I had hoped for some defin
ite and permanent improvement
within a year; but the time has al
most elapsed now, and the benefit I
have obtained is not nearly so much
as I expected. And I get so tired of
it at times, having to give up so
much—early to bed, and continually
having to think what I must eat
and what I must do. Would j'ou ad
vise me to keep on at it, or is it a
mere waste of time?
"Perhaps, you will think this ill
ness of mine all imaginary. I am
inclined to believe so myself some
times. Yet when I relax in my
dieting and regimen people are very
apt to notice it and tell me that I
am not looking well.
"Constant worry and not enough
fun causes part of my ill health, I
am sure. Yet even as a child I
was not very healthy. If I wanted
to, I could fill pages describing my
peculiar temperament, but I think
I have told you enough.
"I am discouraged and I worrj',
because I want to be of more use
in the world, and. to enjoy life and
be happy. This is the reason that
I want to be healthy.
"HEARTSICK.
"P. S.—A doctor could not help
me, as I would not know what to
tell him."
My dear girl, I am not sure that
a doctor would not help you—if he
was the right kind of a doctor. And
I am not sure that a clergyman
would not help you—if he was the
right kind of a clergyman. Or a
Christian Science or mental prac
titioner. Or a good shaking. Or a
sweetheart. Always presupposing
each to be of the right kind.
But the person who can help you
most and best is your own little
self. Y/hen you read that, don't
stop, please, with the idea that I
am going to ladle you out a few
platitudes, telling you that there is
really nothing the matter with you,
and that you have only to cultivate
a glad, Pollyanna spirit to see all
! your seeming ills disappear.
Far from it. I would never call
weak nerves and the dragging de
pression which accompanies them
an imaginary ailment. It is every
bit as uncomfortable and real to the
sufferer as toothache or appendi
citis. Indeed, the doctors aro now
assuring us that "temperament"
itself is a definite disease. Nor, If
j-ou can see the slightest benefit or
advantage from j-our physical cul
ture course, would I advise yon to
stop it. I merely saj-, these things
you ought to do and not leave the
others undone.
Most cripples are optlmlstß. Why?
Because they instinctively try to
show the world that the loss of a
hand or a foot or un arm does not
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make them "different" from other
people. They refuse to pity them
selves or allow others to pity them.
And they become so occupied in this
game of camouflage that they forget
about their disabilities. Busj' people
are always cheerful people.
Contrariwise, the victims of "tem
perament" constantly strive to ap
pear "different." They are always
looking within to detect new shades
of variance, and become self-cen
tered. mopish, discouraged.
Get an interest outside of your
self, my dear. You say you have
not much of a home. Then make
it one. Brighten up your own cor
ner. The tasks of the housewife
energetically followed form as good
a systeni of physical culture exer
cises as was ever invented. Per
fect yourself in them. As your am
bition becomes aroused and you be
gin' to see results you will begin to
take a joy in this work. Moreover,
you will be training j'ourself for the
day when you are at the head of a
home of j-our own.
Don't give up your exercises,
either. Fifteen minutes a dav put
in regularly at that will help" both
your physical and mental morale.
Eat carefully, but don't think too
much about it. Take plenty of time
to sleep. It is physical "culture"
j-ou are after, not phj-sical "torture."
The best rule perhaps is to fol
low the lines of the Y. M. C. A.
triangle. Work always to your best
ad\antage on the three sides of
your nature —physical, mental and
spiritual—each to an equal degree.
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OUR CHILDREN y)
A Series of Plain Talks to
• By Rr C. Brery, A.8., MA.
President of the Parents Association.
Not all school teachers under
stand boys as they should, which
is unfortunate. And it is likely that
this fact has a direct relation to
boys not liking school.
A teacher, who really knows child
i nature, and who provides for the
! recreational needs of pupils, and
j who teaches knowledge in an lnter
| esting way, has very little trouble
1 with pupils wanting to quit.
Of course, there are various rea
sons why particular boys want to
stop. For one mother
writes to me:
"My boy wants to quit school and
go to seem to be d'o
ing any good, rather 'girl struck'
and wants to 'try his wings.' Your
help will be appreciated."
There is a close connection be
tween j*our boy's wanting to leave
school and the fact that he is "girl
struck."
Your description of the situation
was very brief but in analyzing the
case, I should say the fact that he
is girl struck is the primary cause
of his wanting to quit school. Boys
1 want more money to spend on girls
than they can get hold of, as a rule,
and this fact causes them to want
to start to work and make the money
for which they feel they are in such
great reed.
To offset this particular reason
for his wanting to quit school, you
might arrange to increase his week
ly allowance. A proper way of ap
proaching the subject would be
something like this: "Well, son, I
believe that j'ou are quite old enough
now to take good care of your money
and so I have in mind increasing
your weekly allowance. I want you
to have enough money to be able to
spend and have a fairly good time
J while you are going to school now
I and at the same time be saving
I enough on j'our college fund so that
>ou will have money to spend when
; you go away to college."
End your talk by telling him how
j much you propose giving him per
j week as an allowance. You would
| do well to give him this talk just
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after he has had a visit with some
admired college man.
There may be several minor causes
for his wanting to quit school.'Per
haps he doesn't like his teacher.
Perhaps he fears the coming "exams."
Perhaps he doesn't understand some
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he feels th e school rdom is a sort of
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ground.
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I confidential talk with the boy's
teacher for 'next year. Jot down all
the attractive points about the
year's work. For example, find out
all you can about the next j'ear's
class organization and class func
tions. Give him the impression that
in order to be in the "Swim," next
year, he would of course have to be
in school because the school crowd
doesn't have much to do with out
siders.
Above all, get him interested in
the school's athletics for next j-ear,
if you can. Play up in his mind the
advantage of being on a high-school
team and being able to play teams
in other cities.
It would be a good idea for you
to have the most popular teacher in
high-school out to dine with you
some evening, if it could be arranged.
Encourage the companionship be
tween this teacher and your bo> - .
This would be a very practical way
of Interesting the boy in high-school
next j-ear. If It is not convenient to
have a teacher, have some popular
student from the "high-school.
(Copyrighted, 1919, by the Parents'
Association.)
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Measure to Increase
Pay of Navy Men
Washington, Feb. 25.—An amend
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enlisted men of'the navy.which was
stricken out in the House on a point
of order, was tertatwely reinserted
[in the measure yesterday by th
Senate naval committee. Opposition
was expressed by some members and
another vote will be taken.
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