Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1926, Page 91

- THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON., D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—JUNE 27, 1926. “Oh, Daddy! Let's get married, and you can buy me a big car and some nice pearls, and we’ll be just like Cinderella and the prince!” Flaming youth is just so eager for romance and adventure in these ultra-modern days as in the olden times—say nothing of flaming age. WE MODERNS FLAMING YOUTH By W. E. HIILL (Copyright. 1926. Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) The co-eds. “For heaven's sake, Betty, what have you done with your lovely curly boh?™ “I simply had to give it up. Ncar-sighted profs in the taking me for a boy!” For and against flaming youth. Miss Ghoul, the magazine writer, is very much pro. classrooms were forever mis- How the rumors start. Mrs. McWarty and Miss Egglett are discussing flaming youth and the drink question. Mrs. Mc- Warty has it on the best authority that when the high school girls’ basket ball team played the out-of-town girls not one of them could shoot a goal because they were so intoxicated She does those articles on “What Modern Civilization Owes to the Flapper,” and does so many that her readers long for the youth of today to grow up. nounces and denounces the terrible condition of the younger generation. Then there is the Rev. Mr. Bemper, arch reformer, who de- Gets all stirred up over short skirts and legs and boyish bobs, and is for shooting cvery young lady under 30. We have with us, also, Miss Maybe, the old-fashioned girl, who seems to have missed her generation and writes long letters to the news columns, assuring the editors that she would rather die than powder her nose or show her ankles. (Left) Flaming youth and sober age. “I came home from the party at 6 in the morning, and my aunt met me at the door and asked what 1 meant by staying out all night! I'd like to know what she calls all night! [ was so ashamed for fear my boy friend would hear her!” (Right) Smoldering flames. Floise is onc of those sheltered young girls. No flam- ing youth for her unless she elopes with papa’s chauffeur. Her finishing school is so select there were only two girls registered last term. Eloise is slated to carry on in the Victorian manner. Flaming youth of today is not so very different from the youth of yesterday and the day before, although the flames seem to crackle in odd ways. several of what the old folks call horrible examples. horrible example will be saying, “What arc young people coming to?” Here are Twenty years hence the “I am sure,” she adds, “the young man of today really prefers a good, sensible girl.” L Flaming second childhood. This is nonc other than Mrs. O. O. Whee, the millionairess, with her fourth--or is it her fifth?—matri- monial venture. The flaming youth is a very modern version of the Cinderella story, with Mrs. Whee as the prince.