GIRLS WHO SCARE MEN AWAY FROM THE ALTAR.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4310, 13 November 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

GIRLS WHO SCARE MEN AWAY FROM THE ALTAR.

NO WONDER THE MARRIAGE RATE IS GOING DOWN.

There are girls who absolutely frighten men, and I regret to fay their number is increasing. As a rule they are of different varities, species, and temperament. Some may be classed as the haughty, indifferent type, who are cold, cynical, openly profess to dislike the opposite, sex, and who are never happier than when cutting a man, making h'ni look small. Then there are the avowed rnanhaters; but these, though Lilly conscious of their own superiority, are generally of the blue-stocking frii.ernity many women, in fact, who imv?x themselves by an exaggerated opiawn of their own cleverness, whereas :n reality their dogmatic ways and imfemi ".me actions constitute- them a bugbear and abhorrence to man.

Their direct opposite is the girl who is over-amiable, and whose every thought in life is to stand well in the eyes of the sterner sex. Such girls are huiband-hunters ; and their want- of tact and common sense invariably gives the game away. They are, to oe piecise, the same to all men; anything in the masculine sex is fish for their hook, and the manner in which they go out of their way to fascinate, attract, and run after lr.t-n, showing a preieieuee tor their society, is both amusing and disgusting. FOOLISH FONDNESS

Such tactics toon reveal themselves. A man is not slow in noticing when a girl literally throws herself at his head , or blushes and simpers, coquetting with every male she meets, as thougu he were the one and only one she loved. The inevitable result is that adnrrers cool off. scared away by the very pronounced preference shown for their society. long before they themselves have determined their own feelings m the matter. Then there is another and thiid kind of girl who frightens off the intended suitor; £ refer to the one who tries to impress everybody ■with her own importance. This girl prides herself on lier extravagant notions. She need not always be of a wasteful, improvident disposition, yet she spends mos: of her money on dress ; everything she has must be of the newest, best, and in the height of fashion. I do not wish to imply that all welldressed girls are vain and exfavagant —their solo idea in life dress. I have known careful and not over-extravagant girls who, though they materially, reduce their milliners' :nd dressmakers' bills by doing much work were still foolish enough to tall-: nig, declaring before their young men friends that they intended to ma' ry only a rich man, and could not content themselves with less than two servants and five or six hundred a year. THEIR OWN FAULT.

Thus it is that many girls who are clever, good-looking , and companionable become old maids; all iVone:;i their own stupidity and lack of discretion. They have spoiled their chance of marriage by frightening off the very men likelv * to make good husbands ; and why? Simply becau.se the man of the present day cannot afford such luxuries and extravagance. What he requires in a wife is a careful housekeeper, one who will help him, in the battle of life ; not a woman whose chief aim and thought is how much money she can spend, iiow much more she can lay out tipon her next new hat than her friend Mrs. So-and-so did.