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Show Sound advise for men-starved girls Another annual Sadie Hawkin's Dance has come and gone at Cedar Hieh Srhnol Friday and Saturday, boys could be seen avoiding well-lit places and wearing false noses, in order to be avoided. Others appeared as peacocks, strutting some, (fashion and plummery) do not add to your beauty one particle; if you are homely, they only make you worse. Gentlemen do not court your faces and jewelery, but your own dear selves. Finally, girls, listen to the counsel of your mothers and ask their advice in everything. Think less of fashion than you do of kitchen duties-less of romances than you do of the realities of life--but instead of trying to catch beaux, strive to make yourself worthy of being caught by them. about, ready for the call. Perhaps the girls at the high school could take some advice from Nelly Gray, an 1855 columnist in the Women's pages of the Deseret News. We quote her advice for all men-chasing girls. "Girls, you want to get married, don't you? Ah, what a natural thing it is for young ladies who have such a hankering for the sterner sex! It is a weakness that woman has, and for this reason she is called the weaker sex. Well, if you want to get married, don't for conscience con-science sake, act like fools about it. Don't go into a fit of the nips every time you see a hat and a pair of whiskers. Don't get the idea into your heads that you must put yourself in the way of every jjung man in the neighborhood neigh-borhood in order to attract notice, for if you don't run after the men, they will run after you. Mark that. A husband-hunter is the most detestable of all young ladies. She is full of starch and puckers; she puts on many false airs, and she is so nice that she appears ridiculous in the eyes of every decent person. She may generally be found at meeting, coming in, of course, about the last one, always at social parties, and inveriably takes a front seat at concerts. She tries to be the belle of the place, and she thinks she is. Poor girl! you are fitting yourself for an old maid, just as sure as the Sabbath comes on Sunday ! Men will flirt with you, and flatter you simply because they love to do it; but they have no more idea of making you a wife than they have of committing suicide. If I was a young man I would have no more to do with such a fancy than I would with a rattlesnake If you are really hand- |