Show I Dorothy I Do rothy Dixs Dix's ix's Letter Letter Box l Box Box WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOL GIRLS WHO ASK STRANGERS FOP 1 t AUTO RIDES WHY MOTHERS ARE USUALLY MORE MORES S PARTIAL TO THEIR SONS SHOULD A MAN WHO IS TOO TO DELICATE TO MARRY DECLARE HI HIS LOVE OR REMAIN SILENT DEAR D EAR MISS DIX Every day J every other man who drives tar ear earam am Sin accosted by hoards boards ot of o school girls who beg lOT for a ride Ide These girls are not little children TheY are practically grown gron Do you ou not think that this Is la a very bold and un- un unladylike un unladylike ladylike thIn thine for or girls girTh to do and very nry dangerous DI am DIwell amwell well They have hare no meant means of ot knowing whether the themen then themen n men they ask for a ride are are- decent and nd respectable le OT or not They are quite as likely to strike a as asa asa i a gentleman and once In the car they are absolutely r In the man mans man's power He can take them where wheN tr he will What do you think of ot It It AN INTERESTED READER Answer I also have observed girl girls doing the lame t th thing ng and I have wondered what sort loFt of I mothers theu girls had that they did not teach 4 I their daughters better manner manners and warn 4 l them of the peril perils they run In off si with any stranger who happened along alone n 4 WIll Cli ni Much Much might be said of the utter lack Of 61 good bl bleeding of o the absence of o all delicacy and ADd refine refinement ment and maidenly reserve of o the girl who stands Hands on the street curb and shouts like a hoodlum to every motorist to give gin her a lift TIe Th very foundation oC o all decent manners consists In w waiting until you ItO are asked and not thrusting yourself upon others or asking favors of ot them and It Is hard to Imagine how any woman who le la 1 a lady call caa brIng up a daughter who has baa BO so little appreciation of ladylike conduct Dut But It Is not a question Of o manners but of o morals Ith which we weare weare weare are chIefly concerned In this matter It Is the terrible danger that the gIrls themselves run when ben they hop hop the cars of men of ol whom they know nothing for unfortunately the first name of ot all the men eho drive motors is not Joseph and not without reason has the automobile Ih cd up to the by which It was first known when It was WIS called a n de il de det II wagonS wagon To begin with any girl who accosts a strange man and asks him to give her a ride In his hi ear tar lays lay herself open to Insult I She has adopted the approach of the woman of the street and she ae as no cause caule for Jut Just resentment If men believe her to be one and treat her as one An even greater danger to the girl lies lie In the fact that It is very seldom that the right sort of a man wilt will heed the cry of these girls girl who are begging for a rids rid The gentleman speeds peed by because he realizes the gravity of the offense against th conventions convention even If the girl does doe not Ho He knots knovs s the construction that the world puts on a pickup on I the streets and the C conical smile that his friends would gI glie e If it he at attempted attempted attempted tempted to explain that he was merely rely giving a school girl a lift home Instead of having a chicken out for a spin And he knos kno that the girl s a father or mother would be more likely to meet him Vo with a club than a vote of thanks If it he be dell delis ered the girl at her own door It Is tho men without morals without principles Ios the men who prey pry on Ignorance and youth the sports ports the chauffeurs out with their masters master's cars who answer the call of the girls who beg on the street for a ride And once they have thel their Illy Illy little passenger In their cars carl car who knows where they go goMany Many and many a time they start down the path of destruction Only the mothe mothers can stop this pernicious custom and they can only do it t by putting the fear of God In the hearts of their daughters and by making them realize how great Is II their dan danger get ger and that they literally take their lives and more In their hands hand when they enter the car clr of a stranger DOROTHY DIX 5 5 a S I 5 IDEAR EAR DOROTHY DIX Will DIX ou on please tell me e why by by all mol mothers hers are are DEAR D partial to their sons Also how do ou think an estate should be divIded between Hen the children C D 11 B U Answer Mothers deny that they are partial to their son sons They say they love all their children Just alike and that their daughters are ara really more comfort to them But every outsider can cee that a woman ha has a tenderness for her sons that she never has for her hr daughter daughters and that she Iho spoils her boys bOYI more than she ahe does doe her girls Scientists say thit this IbIs i Is a biological urge founded on the attraction attraction tion hOIl of ot tho the se sees es and that mothers can t help belp It It Is just nature Anyway it Is true that mothers are aro partial to their sons and get along wIth them more than with their daughters And there are many reasons for tor this One Is that the sons son's and the mothers mother's Interests never con can conflict and the mothers mother's and the daughters daughter's do The boss hois never want to take a hand In the housekeeping or change the Vo way eay ay the parlor furniture Is arranged or Interfere In any manner with the way mother runs things The girls do They come home from school with w ne new nev- ideas and new now theories and want to make over the I home and unless mother is an exceedingly meek and antI self effacing wo woman woman woman man there Is a perpetual conflict between new Ideas Ide-as and old In In the tho home home- One of the chief reasons that girls wants to get married Is to get gel gela geta geta a home of their own In which they can do as they please and the rep rea reason son that mother wears ears the smile emile that on wont t come oft off at the wedding Is because she sho Is going to be bo left In peace to do as she pleases in her het heron 0 on n home once more Mother concedes personal liberty to her sons She doesn't try to boss them or expect them to furnish an alibi for every hour they are away from her hor she doesn't dont arrogate to herself the right to tell toll them what they thoy shall hall wear what hour they shall come home whom they shall marry whether they shall go Into business or not But she feels she has a perfect right to su- su supervise su supervise every detail of her daughters daughter's life and md unless let lether lether lether her do all of their thinking for them she feels feell hurt and Is estranged from them When a mother says that she Is pointed in n her daughters daughter it merely means that the girls are not an understudy of her as u she was at their age Lastly a mother Is prouder of her sons than she Is of her daughters because she hopes that they will do great things and be In the public eye but she t trusts trusts that her h r daughter will marry happily and never be heard of again t tI I think an estate should be equally dh divided between the children If more money has bas been spent on one child than on the others It should be deducted from his or her part pert of ot the estate DOROTHY DIXS DIX S 0 I EAR I AR MISS I fiX I am very ve-ry much In lit love with a girl who nho I thInk U cares for me But Dut I cannot ask her to marry me because of my health which has bas been on a decline for tor two years Should I 1 tell her of m love lo and my regret that I cannot ask ak her herto herto herto to bo be my toy wife or keep silent FATE Answer Tell her by all means It Is best not to bind her to you bv by a definite Vo ehen hor It Is uncertain If you rou will ever be able to marry although many people who ho a are ae e thought to be seriously sick do get Vo nell eeli ell QU knowIn know knowIn In any case caso the woman has hu a right to the tho happiness of knowing that you loved her That will be b a s precious secret for her to hug to her heart as long as she ehe lives and will keep her from the tho shame of feeling that she gave her love unsought It will save her from the bitterness 0 of thinking that she uhe gave her hor heart hoart to a cod cad who It as al a play plaything thin and flung It away when he was wae tired of It DOROTHY DIX right 1924 by Public Ledger Company |