Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-05 | Page 8 | Happy Hunting Ground Lost

Happy Hunting I 1 Ground Lost By RUTH MILLETT l Here is a note for the sweet girl graduate And it isn't a bit premature pre pro mature either though its it's some six months until June The girl who gets out of college thinking men are plentiful is going We the Women to find the world outside not quite such a Utopia as a coeducational campus where men were so abundant abundant ant that they could be overlooked if they weren't good dancers or didn't tower above a girl Face Future The girl who leaves such a pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant hunting ground ought to know what is in store for her If she goes home to live with her family she is likely to find that the II boys who used to seem terrific when they left the stag line to dance with her arent aren't such entertaining men Four years of growing ving up have made her critical If she goes away from home to work she is not much better off In Ina a large city she meets few men who arent aren't already married And in a small place there are few unmarried unmarried II ried ned men to meet She shudders inwardly when a aman aman aman man who says he dont and commits commits com com- I mits other grammatical sins takes her out to dinner The man may be I attentive and the steak thick and juicy but there is that he dont I that school has taught her along with any number of other false standards is La unforgivable Makes Own Way After a few years of hard working working work work- ing she begins to build herself a place in life which she likes pretty well A cozy enough place with perhaps a trip to Europe some sum sum- mer On the trip she meets men traveling with or without their wives and the college boys whose fathers are paying for the j jaunt And so she pushes love and marriage mar mar- i her birthright into the fu fu- fu ture She is sure the right man will come along some day Only often he Or if he does he is usually already married Schools have a duty too They ought to teach girls that a man can make grammatical errors and make the world like them them them-if if he has what it takes