Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1921, Page 60

_THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—ROTOGRAVURE SECTION—JULY 24, 1921 Among Us Mortals Sweet Eighteen Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune inc Genius begins to get in its deadly work about the time a girl reaches the age of eighteen and begins to write plays—Ilong, long ones —and acts all over the place, if let. Annette has written a five-act tragedy all about strange sex complexes and such witthie;ro: and Pier- o e rette as the chief mourners. If you ask un{aone about Jessie Maud they will say: “Oh, she’s all right—kinda Annette is doing Pierr':)t and cute.” Jessie Maud is being “kinda cute” at tennis. Giving little squeals whenever th rettiest gi n the ball comes her way, dropping her racquet and being generally “kinda cute.” ov:erhe]min fl?e) “I)r)\' tl‘ie When Jessie Maud is no longer eighteen and the birthdays have mounted up to sophomore class is Pierrette. forty-odd she will still be doing the “kinda cute” stuff and it will be awfully irri- Annette’s family are going tating to whomever Jessie Maud is joined in holy wedlock. to have her psycho-analyzed. Grace, the eight- een - year - old prairie flower, who finished school a couple of years back and “came out” in Sioux City, or Dead Man’s Gulch, or some other social center, thus getting into quite the wrong set, “Excuse me, I think .I feel a is being completely run in my stocking and I've got refinished at an East- to go home.” Nine or ten years ern finishing school. ago it was the thing-for a girl She is nearly in the to murmur politely: “My right set, and if poppa mother wants me,” or “I've got doesn’t have another letters to write,” when she felt bad year in the cot- bored with the company, but ton market Grace is excuses, like everything else, coming out again in change with the times. New York. Carrie nods to everybody who looks her way on the avenue —for Carrie makes her bow to Society next winter, and . it’s Just as well to be on the safe side and not cut any one. Betty is charitably inclined, good little scout, and she is selling pro- i grams at a féte to provide some- thing or other for the peasants in Upper Silesia. The afternoon guest of honor is Carpentier, and naturally an impression- able girl like Betty can’t do anything but follow him round and round the féte.- When the afternoon is over Betty will have sold only one Harriet is one of those clever small town girls who don’t believe a girl needs to be stupid and hick just be- cause she doesn’t hail from New York or Chicago. Har- riet keeps up with all the latest slang—oh, my, yes. If you say: “I think it's going to rain,” Harriet will scream gayly, “I'll tell the world!”” Or if you mention the fact that old Mrs. Simms had her eighty-first birthday last week, Harriet will hurl back at you—quick as a wink— “T']l tell the world!” You can’t get ahead of Harriet. Shirley, the athletic girl, whose eighteen years have not given her at all the sort of send-off f:fi‘“a‘m mamma and three socially inclined aunts could Right—Josephine wears her skirts to her have wished for. They don’t know whether to so long the men turn and stare at family. let her come out or not. Shirley is stronger her. Looks all her eighteen sum- \ ) than any three men on papa’s estate, but what, mers and_hopes she does. She is argue mamma and the aunts, will that get Shir- awfully efficient and is always being ley in the social game. . elected class statistician or some- thiv;lg lilée that hnt kWi‘ell‘asley‘. Jo- sephine doesn’t think hi of men. Rita s the restless kind. - Rita’s father has just a little too Al:rreat many persons W oyknow Jo. much money for Rita to get away with and Rita is restless. sephine feel that she is too refined If the family are nicely settled at home Rita wants to go to ever marry—but time will tell. on a trip. And if they are all on a trip somewhere Rita Has a crush on the delsarte instruc- tress at present. The flowers are wants to go home. for her.