Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 101

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—SEPTEMBER 19. 1926. The Early Twenties By W. E. Hill (Copyright. 1826. by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) Francie is 20, but you'd never know it. Like so many popular girls nowadays, Francie has a “line.” Francie's line is being a cute little 7 Y ¥ girl, and pommeling the men and leaping up ! ig on them. just for all the world like an adorable p fi . Sometimes Francic talks baby talk. s is only in Francie's play hours. She has a serious side, we'd have you know, and is W g B % % p s " A A 3 o i Walter has just turned 21, and is trying, awfully hard to get into Harvard. He's heen best girl friend is engaged to an old man of 37—and I think it's perfectly terrible! Why, I expect to be finished when I'm Lt e fon Qe s Gl LEUAGE [l e “ PR " 5 ing the entrance requirements, or something. specializing in bacteriology. 37! Frappers of sweet and 20 just can't understand that people over 30 have feelings! & q = g Jazz babies in the early twenties simply can't understand the old-fashioned girls. “Imagine,” Dotsie is sotto-voicing to Lillian, “her father has forbidden her to use cigarettes and she has to smoke out of her bathroom window with the do or locked. Imagine letting your family dictate to : q your in this day,and age!” Twenty-five is a splendid age. That's why so many women of maturity, so to speak. come back and stay 25 indefinitely. This lovely boy of 20 is, if he only knew it, causing a great deal of talk among the girls and hoys of his own generation. For he is seen out walking nowadays with grandmother, mother or maiden aunt. “I'm reading the most romantic story from real life in the Daily Howl. It's the memoirs of a youny girl of 15 who got adopted by an old millionaire of 80 and finally marricd him.” Imagine! He gave her three automobiles in one week! Isn't it roman- tic?” Modern girls in their early twenties, believe it or not, are just as romantic underncath as their mothers and grandmothers were in their day Not all young girls are frivolous in this frivolous age. Meet sweet Enid, who would much prefer mar- riage and the home to joy-rides and jazz. If a boy friend asks Enid to go have an ice cream soda or to the movies Enid goes right home all fluttering and she and her mama start a hope chest. Twenty is the dangerous age for college students The early twenties are _f'ears of great unrest. as About sophomore year they get “arty” and seriously any truthful young girl will tell you. Her parents think of giving up the_engineering course in favor and her aunts and uncles, to say nothing of the first, of an artistic career. They begin to draw flappers second and third cousins, get on her nerves dreadfully. in per and ink for the college funny papers and cut She often thinks of leaving home and becoming a all the science courses. trained nurse, a movie actress or a great novelist. ki oo —— 9 o7 o]