Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 103

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.—GRAVURE SECTION—AUGUST 1, 1926. LA G R T s The Bachelor Girl By W. E. HILL. Copyright. 1926. by the Chicago Tribune. all me by my maiden name, please ™ sometimes a dyed-in- the wool bachelor girl succumbs to matri- mony. She keeps it in the background, how- ever; so don’t dare call her by her married name if you meet her in the business world Not all bachelor ¢ sa, for example ly steps in & man that he é 4 il This is Gladys. who loves ‘em a little and leaves ‘em, and y : falee ooy has too good a time, gencrally speaking, to think of the marricd X W, b . state. She's the despair of her wedded girl friends. Has a job “ ; \ Unale Joe in an interior decorator’s office. v 5 wore Oiftentimes little tearo things like the sight of the a homely man with a 1 even snuffly cold or a bald PoAnc spot seen from above i pecte keep the bachelor girl of in a state of single blessedness. i > BNy 4 i 3 cet the bachelor girl of “He would come down to breakfast and say, ‘Hang crepe on your nose, a) The forerunner of the modern bachelor girl. She was very, very proper, and Votes for women. Meet the e s « t nd say crepe or _nos the \SI]I]Ch vaunted blush of shame mounted to her brow with almost no provocation the pre-suffrage days. when the single girl was h‘d Mary; your brains are dead, and then he'd laugh that 5},‘“) ‘f’fi“h, W(“:-(rlnl‘x(x‘: at all. Anything stronger than “damn” or any reference to underpinning made her ginning to feel her way. Great red-faced men \fsc_‘ have till 1 thought I'd go crazy.” Two bachelor girls in the mak ;“‘,;;“ "'\, L go hot and cold with mortification. No man who was a gentleman would think of to make her see red wi(}é phrases like \]\;‘?;fl:v':ls been v]s[lu;ig a mardnc%mcnd. n||lul. D’:I. ll"!k'_ d,?‘”l“m;‘hn:‘;:mdl‘l,'a;:)du(nlh«" (Ao n = - v 2 o, a 1 | x P S€! ¢ d . i i her presence. 3 y lace is in the home,” and many a sassy Jib 7 viewed at first hand. Gert is telling her friend Jos: smol:l:)g]:‘ns‘ an npld-fashioned spinster getting a shock from a billboard. In 1926 it's }?urlcd at her on the line of march. Howdevur. she of @ cornic Rushand in the Hause the billboard that gets the shock when the bachelor girl passes by. still wore petticoats beneath the tailor-made. PR YL\