BOY ADVISES GIRL.
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 1937.
By George Antheil
YOU CAN'T PET AND WED!
Elizabeth wants to know how practically all girls had had their So know she pret kies well before they were
Elizabeth is a girl-reader.
George Antheil is a man who tells girls a few things aboudt. love. "Elizabeth' wants to know. —what does he think of pet- Ling? And George Antheil
„ANSWETS--
we
popular have been taken in. Of course, only a small group of men-- of the shoddy-brained variety thave always among us dões
hoodwinking
the-
But there's not a man alive who won't try to discover how hard girl has fallen for the petting sales- talk of another man.
wants to know the normal masculine eighteen years old. Most of them reaction to girls more trusting than had their first boy friends when they exacting.
were fifteen. She shall know. Here goes.
This does not answer the ques- For a man to look at this from tion about petting, but it does re- a scientific viewpoint and tell her veal that it is quite general. the whys and wherefores of the po- I think everyone will admit that pularity of this pastime, is not what there is no question of propriety or
And he'll always take advantage. she's after so much as its connec- anything else raised over the pet as far as we fellows are concerned, of it-that's human, you know. tion with marriage appeal
ting of engaged couples.
for we know that if we marry her And alas, men, even the best of The prevalence of petting, and its Kisses and embraces are a natural she'll still have that particular and them no matter how much you kid many bad effects, is one of the rea and even sacred part of courtship acquired taste for many men.
yourselves they don't talk will pass sons I so heartily endorse early Of such is spun the glistening web That good old intuition you girls the word along that -and-so goe
arriage.
of romance the glorious days all possess makes you dubious about all out for petting--__ Like which are ever rosy in every wo- the petting problem- else
Iman's memory.
fall the discussion?
Do I sound an old fogey? grandma would say
"Terrible! I never kissed man until your grandpa and I engaged.”
But what about to-day?
A recent inquiry showed
why Except that usually they don't
phrase it so delicately.
any In general, however, petting is a Girls, let me put you wise. were pretty vicions thing no matter how have put one over on you
open-mindedly one considers it.
Men
Yes, smart and modern and
jo-
WO-
And then-her chances zoom way down on the marriage appeal chart.
Men "go" for promisenous dependent as you are, the girls who men-make no mistake about that- that might just as well "go all the way" believe that they must "pet to be but they also talk about them
A girl who pets all over the place
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Petting promiscuity shatters. illu- sions. Love and romance live illusions. Bight or wrong, most men still think along rather one-sided lines — and those one-sided lines demand one-man women.
They do like girls with S.A, but as I've said before the girl will concentrate on marriage appeal While you're young and frivolous, you may feel that you want some fun which means that you want a certain amount of petting.in
But surely it's better to miss the fun of the moment and plan for the life-long happiness which successful marriage brings?
A girl who's known as a petter finds men rushing her for dates while she frightens them away from marriage.
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