Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — Tell the Truth. [ARTICLE]

Tell the Truth.

In answer to the accusation that girls of the period tax too heavily the purses of their escorts to ball or theater, a defender of her order suggests that young men should not keep the state of their finances such a profound secret. She says: There isn’t one girl In fifty, I’ll warrant, who would order an expensive meal, or enjoy it when ordered, If she thought that its cost was a serious item to her escort. The average young man hasn’t too much money, but is filled with a fierce desire to see that his fair one has the best and most of everything. It is an American fashion, and a very noble and gallant one, but It can be overdone. I don’t mean that the young man should “plead poverty,” but neither need he assume that indifference to expense that a millionare is supposed to show —and seldom does! A tactful girl can steer between these two extremes neatly and without offending. After all, poverty is no crime. If it was the prisons would be pretty populous.