Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1912 — IS DISTINCTLY BAD TRAIT [ARTICLE]

IS DISTINCTLY BAD TRAIT

Too Many Girls Alm at Complete Monopoly of Men Who Pay Them Attention.

Are you one of the girls who is so feaful of sharing your good times that you steer men from the other girls? There are many girls like that, and they are not loved by their own sex in consequence. If it were only the unpopular girl who acted thus there might be come excuse for it—a man on her horizon is such a wonder that she wants to hold him. But there are girls who are belles who are selfish about keeping men to themselves. Why do they do it? Perhaps from vanity. They alike to seem the great belle of their set, the one with an ever-growing string of admirers. So they calmly take every strange man they meet as their property and take no chances by introducing him to other girls. Perhaps from jealousy. There is many a girl who • would indignantly deny being jealous who presents that appearance by her dread of sharing her attention. She makes a point of keeping her men friends and her girl friends apart; she never introduces save when driven to it, and quickly follows the introduction by detraction of the other girl to the man, sometimes by open mischief-making. ' U Perhaps from z selfishness. She thinks that the fewer girls a stranger in town knows the more time and money he will have to spend upon Whatever the cause, it is a poor one and shortsighted. A girl must be

uncertain of her own power to charm tht she fears to stand her chances with other girls. A girl whom a man likes will be singled out by him from the midst of a dozen fascinating maidens. if he doesn't like .her, nothing can chain him to her. And the more a girl seeks tokeep * man to herself the more restive grows that man. It Is fatal for any girl to have ownership airs with y>e men that are nice to her.' If the man be serious in his attentions he begins to wonder if his fair one is jealous; If he is only polite, he thinks the girl misunderstands politeness-and cools* off forthwith. The more eligible a man is the higher he rateehta self; the moreinclined. to sheer from thegtrl who seeks to monopolize him.