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Show SHOULD A MAN PAY? How much of a lady's expense should a man pay when they are out together to-gether traveling In tubes, cabs, visiting visit-ing a theater or taking a meal to-gothor? to-gothor? This question Is raised by the complaint com-plaint of "Poor Bachelor," who writes to the London Daily Mirror that, although al-though perfectly willing to pay all expenses ex-penses had he the .means, he has to deny nimseli tho pleasure of tnc society so-ciety of the opposite sex because he cannot afford to do so. "Why," he asks, "should it bo a rule that a man should pay the double share of an outing or else be doomed to lonllness when the girl In whose company he wishes to bpend a few hour6 probably bas more money than he himself? "In these days women can earn more money than they used to do. They often earn as much as the men with whom they associate. "I think there must be many ladles who would enjoy going out with a man friend and who would pay their own share willingly If tho "matter could be discussed on either side, "As it is, a man hates tho Idea of a girl paying even an omnibus faie, and keeps away from women whom he likes because he cannot afford to spend a pound or so out of his Income On dinners, cab3 and theaters "Women, too, have been brought up with the idea that a man who does not squander money or is not able to meet the little expenses of even acquaintances ac-quaintances he happens to meet Is not worthy of respect." A well-known .authoress expressed herself as follows; "In the first place, men are very sensitive about a woman guessing that they arc not prosperous and cannot can-not bear that she should use her' own purse for triQes. "It Is a delight to a man to give his sweetheart little pleasures, and for their mutual entertainments to be placed on a business basis would spoil them for him. "An old friend of tho familv may be permlttej to pay the expenses of a woman friend; but I am sure It would be a good Institution If by mutual mu-tual consent ordinary friends and acquaintances of the opposite sex un-aerstood un-aerstood that each should pay his or her own expenses. 'Both men and women would he ablo to suggest entertainments that might be pleasurable to each, and at the same time neither need reproach themselves or each other on the question ques-tion of the settling of the bills." |