DON’T “PARADE” HIM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20323, 3 February 1928, Page 11

DON’T “PARADE” HIM.

Mildred was the type of girl who can always attract a man, but never hold him. The reason wasn’t anything to her discredit, however: it was just that she had a silly habit'of “parading” him as though he were her property, even before he had asked' her to marry him. For instance, when she went out with a boy to visit her friends and relations, or even his people, she would answer for him. “ Oh, no, Fred won’t smoke. He knows I can’t stand the smell of a pipe.” Or some other such domineering remark would pass her lips. .

It is a fashionable trick w'th some of our modern girls, and a really hand--some boy who would make ever such a dear husband told me he intended to remain a bachelor all his days, for he had had enough of girls.. The one who made him eventually come to this conclusion was a sweet little soul, he said, but when they went <mt tpgether she adopted such an air of ownership that he soon dropped her acquaintance. He pointed out that men rarely attempt to exhibit girls in that way, and I feel sure he was right.

Of coarse, after they are engaged every man takes a pride in his fiancee, and does all he can to let the world know that she is his girl, but even then he doesn’t adopt the "my dog” manner. , One day a girl was walking along with a certain “ boy ” when they met a mutual friend, who asked them to come up on a Friday evening for supper and a game of cards. It was the first time the couple had gone out together, yet the girl took it upon herself to answer for them both, and say they would be glad to come, net even knowing whether or not the “boy ” had another engagement. This made him so wild that, although he was really free to go, he deliberately told a fib, and said business would not allow him to do so.

There are occasions, of course, when it may be convenient to let others answer for us, but, speaking generally, men like to speak for themselves, and they never like the girls with whom they go out to clutch at them as though they owned them—no, not even in these days of the emancipated woman.—Glasgow Weekly Herald.