THE EXPENSIVE GIRL.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12750, 23 March 1910, Page 4

THE EXPENSIVE GIRL.

1 One reason why men don't marry is, so they say, because girls have such extravagant ideas- (writes "Christina" in the "Australasian"). "-What can a fellow who has only a few hundreds a year do?" asks I'rod X., disconsolately. His thoughts are all of a pretty girl we wot of, with wavy hair and brown eyes — and a rich father. "Girls always expect io begin, where their father and mother left off," he says decidedly. "They want- motor-cars and diamond rings, and a staff of servants, and they wouidn'tT live in the country for anything." All this is a little bit. hard on the girls. They almost begin to wish they hadn't rich fathers. Bu- . cause a girl lives in a big house, and is surrounded by every iluxury, the young men of her acquaintance imagine she wouldn't be "content wi' little." This is, in five cases out of sixj quite a mistake, but how is Angelina to let Edwin know it? She can't very well, though there are over so many people who vow* that girls really do three-quarters of the courting, and "a fellow is engaged before he is aware of it." But if men arc diffident, girls are shy— sometimes. A modest maiden confided to me that the man she most admired had said : "No man with less than a thousand a year dare ask you to marry him." She could find in reply nothing to say, so perhaps ho, having only four hundred or thereabouts, still believes it. Several girls I know have # willingly forsaken all, a, large home with plenty of servants, to follow the men they love, who can only afford small cottages, with very little help, if any. But whether these girls were obliged to go more than half-way in order to bring their present husbands up to engagement point I cannot fathom — a\-id I cannot inquire 1