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"TheseMen — Are Dangerous" ( Continued from page 55) and he’ll hint to you, or say outright, that his wife has never understood him and quite possibly he’s “married in name only.” But sometimes he’ll have some other sort of obligadon that puts marriage “temporarily” out of the question for him — a mother he must take care of, old debts that he has to pay, and so on. He’ll probably tell you all this in advance and ask you with the most disarming frankness to be “just friends” with him. What makes this man really dangerous is that he’s so obviously “sincere.” It’s even quite possible that he’s as miserable at home as he tells you he is and that his wife treats him very badly indeed — for, although he doesn’t realize it, there’s something about a man of this type which unconsciously attracts bad treatment in the same way as a woman does who has a “martyr complex.” But at any rate, he’s wholly truthful when he says he’s desperately lonely. If he falls in love with you, as he’s very likely to do, he’ll “worship the ground DANGER SIGNALS (If you say — or feel — things like these look out!) 1. “I know all the tricks and there is no man who can fool me.” 2. “I’m certain he loves me and that’s all that matters.” 3. “I judge a man by the way he treats me, not the way he’s acted toward other women.” 4. “I want a man who knows how to give a girl a good time.” 5. “He thinks he’s a wolf, but watch me take the conceit out of him!” 6. “I don’t care what people say about me — after all, the world has changed since grandma was young.” 7. “Of course I’m not going to take him seriously, but he’s such fun!” 8. “I don’t like him so much, but he’ll help me to get places.” 9. “He wouldn’t dare to try any rough stuff with me!” 10. “He’s never said anything about our getting married, but I’m sure he wants to.” Well, Miss Inquisitive, we weren’t talking to you, really. We were telling your Mother about Fels-Naptha Soap . . . but you can listen too. you walk on” as devotedly as any man could. You may well find such love hard to resist, to say nothing of the fact that, being older than you and perhaps a more important person in the world’s eyes than most of the men you have known you may also be so flattered, you won’t 'see what you are letting yourself in for. If the man is someone you’re continually :hrown with in a business way that will complicate your problem still more. To be strictly honest, I can’t say that such relations always turn out badly. But they do at least nine times out of ten. For the truth is, no matter how strong and wise this man seems, he’s a weakling at heart — if he wasn’t he would rave done something before to get himself out of the “spot” he is in. He hasn’t the moral courage to “put up or shut up” —that is, either admit what he wants, go after it and take the consequences, or make the best of his life without it. He’s more afraid than he’s willing to admit hat a change will “hurt him professionally,” or be disapproved by people whose good will he can’t bear to lose. So, if you let him, he’ll string you along ndefinitely, promising in all sincerity that ae’ll do something decisive as soon as We were just reminding Mother that you’ll soon be big enough to toddle around and 'get into things’. You’ll need a complete change of costume often — on short notice. And that’s when she’ll need Fels-Naptha Soap! She'll need it to get your washing done in a jiffy. To get all the dirt out without rubbing your little dresses into rags. To get them so white you look 'sweet enough to eat’, Does she have to use Fels-Naptha | Soap? No, but if she takes the advice of a lot of Mothers we know — she will! FELS-NAPTHA SOAP_banishes"Tattle-Tale Gray h si 71