DON'T ENCOURAGE "DANGLERS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 175, 28 August 1909, Page 3

DON'T ENCOURAGE "DANGLERS."

Many families have a few young m"n of the "dangler" type on their reserve list. They arc "called out" to take the place of "some more eligible man woo writes on the very morning of a dinnc--party his sineere regrets that he is usable to fulfil .his engagement. A jvire to amiable young Sprightly brings back a delighted '*\es.' lie turns up and takes the place of the defaulting diner, with a good-humored forgiveness; of the obvious fnot that he was decidedly the last choice of his hostess. And gradually, he assumes the position of dangler-in-ehief to one particular dnughfor dangler-in-general to the girls of household. The bona fide masculine admirers get anioved at finding him always on the spot,"like a statue' in the park. He gets on their nerves. Whenever they look m casually or call on Sundays you.ig Sprightly has managed to get thete| first. * Mothers who encourage "followers of this description are making a great mistake. No doubt young men of this sort are useful; thev'are quite safe, and harmless escor'*" to. take the girls to picture galleries c.id forth. In a hundred their can he utilised. Tlut the" ')><'*• do in warning other men off decided!'' oiitwciirhs their usefulness as messenter bovs, factotums, and devoted slaves. The devii 1 "! adorer who dangles, admires, and does' her behests unqtrstioninilv nrnve? a real stum'oling-bloek dud hnnli-nn t.o <1 marriageable girl. The 111 or" serious suitors look on disapprovingly at a bachelor maid who Irads young men about as though th-?v were tame kittens at the end of a bit of blue ribbon. _ ferh-'is thev think she might continue. the ru'toni after marriage, as so mnnv vmi'ic wives' do. Men" who ■ i 'l"ngln" deliberately, and, ns it were, with malice aforethought, without the -'i iilow ot" an hr.nest intention to marr ". are infinitely worse than the rouu? Surig'itle tyne, who would perhaps nronose if able to keen a wife. The deliberate "dangler' should be dealt with summarilv and severely. He often contrives to make a girl devotedly attached to him, sips as much honev and sweetness is he can secure, out never j*ets within the rjulius of a pi o posa!.—Horoe paper. i