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'IT'S THAT

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 12, 1938.

GIRL AGAIN!'

Do you suffer from telephonitis? they have less and less uneasiness Do you know that more and more about this once purely masculine young girls are afflicated with this activity. However, I'm sure your unpleasant malady? Do you real-brothers will back me up ise that it doesn't take long for it don't like it! to become chronic?

And that the more you indulge in it, the less aware you become of its evil effects on your romantic aspirations?

I refer, of course, to that parti- cularly insidious aspect of tele phonitis which consists of your taking the initiative by telephone, in arranging t to connect socially

Get it? with a young man.

Girls have been taking so much in their own hands these days that

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Chaps so timid, so lazy or so spoiled, say I, are not

at com panions for any girls. Let's skip

we them.

We are flattered yes. Our ego times when is inflated, even at your 'phoning becomes a nuisance. But you don't make a good impres- sion by doing it. You may have achieved a fair number of good times out of your calls, but you've gained a dubious popularity.

You lose much in the men.

eyes of

Running after men just doesn't

Two phases of telephonitis are even more irritating to men than being rung up for dates, but they don't prejudice us quite as in- sidiously against the feminine sinner.

To-day

GEORGE ANTHEIL

warns you

usually better foregone. If you've made a mistake, take your punish- First, there's the young woman who keeps the wires humming be- ment on the chin. tween herself and her fiance. In You will notice we haven't this case the recipient presumably touched upon that prolific form of ' is pretty much in love and apt to

telephonitis which runs to endless excuse the annoyance on grounds

conversations bet

between women. This of her devotion.

it ap

is so old a form of the disease as to be positively venerable, and I almost hesitate to denounce it when better men than I have been

bring about love and marriage engagement, especially if his unable to find a cure for it.

There have been exceptions, no doubt. I'm not saying that in real life many a girl has not had to get a man to pop the question by put- ting the words right into his mouth.

YOU JUST HELP HIM

But it puts quite a strain on the

pears that jealous fears whereabouts or feminine posses- siveness are at the back of it all.

Then there's the bride. The most spineless spouse cures his wife of unnecessary telephoning — to the office, at least within a few months. The first few months But asking for fair lady's hand,

marriage would be much whether old style or new, at least of infers that a fellow has pursued her pleasanter for newly-wed hushands, if brides would remember that enough to be matrimonially inclin- ed, and needs only her assistance sharing everything does not mean

sharing your woes over · the but in stating the fact.

cher, or milkman, or even in-laws during his business hours.

The girl I'm writing mostly about to-day is she who, wanting ‘a date. reaches for the 'phone when it doesn't ring of his accord.

The male callee often enough gladly succumbs to her suggestion to “come on over" or that she's just dying to see that new film, or, more feebly, that he bring her a certain book.

But naturally he suspects that something's wrong with a girl who has to resort to the telephone for her dates. Whether he analyses it as such or not, he instinctively senses her lack or pride.

Pride's an old 'institution. · Un- doubtedly

Though your husband restrains himself throughout your telephone recital to laconic "Is that s,

You may think he likes your bright conversation - that he

can't hear or see too much of you. You may both be in love. Even so, you can overdo the telephone habit. If you spend too much time dialling his number when the telephone rings and it's you at the other end of the line, he thinks.

had here caveman's woman dear?" and "I'm sorry, dear,” thei

So, even the least demanding of modern chaps is likely to miss this quality when it's absent.

office soon has the laugh on him. No man likes to feel embarrassed, you know.

Supposing it's true that man to- day is no longer the pursuer, even in the minor prerogatives of ar- Now, the wise girl builds up ranging his social life; then girls such a reputation for never, never had best remember that man still running after a man, that she can cherishes the illusion of taking the get away. with a very

rare tele- initiative and it will take a while phone call and it will utterly charm longer to wean him away from ita man

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When girls take the lead in getting dates, they do often have more male escorts than girls who sit at home with a book or their knitting, or, dreadful as it may seem, just with the family.

May I just mildly admonish you to do a little real amputating when a telephone chat threatens to be- come very long-winded "while your men folk are within earshot?

Moral: For the unmarried girl better an evening at home alone than out by overworking your own telephone. When Bell's great in- vention looks like temptation itself, curb that impulse!

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If, for instance, she has been out a green vegetable for lunch, supp of town for a prolonged period, iffor high tea. she wants him to make up a party and meet Cousin Louise, or if she needs his advice on some matter, and obviously isn't fishing for a date,

The saddest offender of all we haven't mentioned. Perhaps she But, we claim from a large store needs a psychological probe all to of masculine observation on this herself. The poor, deluded female subject, we've never met the men who 'phones and 'phones a man who approve of this practice, And after the friendship has ended. It never gains girls any permanent

| attachments.

Here, in a man's eyes, one ring and only one is permitted. If she Three interesting excuses have has been definitely in the wrong, been offered by girls for doing she can call to say she'd like to their own date-making by tele-see him to explain or apologise, phone. Many modern chaps, they say, are timid, lazy or so spolled in

But without tears, girls. In fact, this way by other girls, that in a dignified — tone that implies they're almost driven to using the there will be no further obligation same tactics.

on his part. However, even this is

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