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{ ESDAY, JUNE 15, i920 > Dr. Hibben Warns Mothers Against Slipshod Manner of Rearing Daughters | Fears for Future of Race. “Modern Gowns and Dances and Flippancy in Wake of War Alarms Princeton Head. By Marguerite Dean. + ‘WGopyright, 1920, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) PRINCETON, June 15. HEN American mothers send their daughters half dressed to evening functions, anything may happem. I would not like to be so ungallant as to put all the blame‘on the women, but Ing men are only human, and while they share in the responsibility for fodern laxity, it has its beginning in the dress of the girle of to-day,” clared President John Grier Hibben of Princeton, when I talked with n in his study about the somewhat startling picture of modern society Which he painted for Princeton men in his 1920 baccalaureate address. Sta our sopial relations,” warned To Dr. Hibben, “we are weakly allow- ourselves to be ruled by the oddess of Folly, slaves in her do- in to the fashion of the hour. The dern dress, the modern dance, the lérn ‘music and modern manners to-day are symptoms that indi- that somehow in this age we We lost our bearings, and that the d values of life, once so highly zed, have been forgotten. mbat“Phere is the danger of a lessen- ing if not a.loss of the old-time everence for womanhood. There ts no longer an aura of mystery about te young woman of to-day, a mys- tery at once her defense and her Slory: and whenever in the history , of the race this divine prerogative E of womanhood 1s lightly regarded pr recklessly scorned, {t has al roved a symptom of decadence far- weaching and disastrous. F Every age of moral and spiritual i Progress in the history of any peo- le has always been an age of chiv- EAcy, in which womanhood has been *pot only respected but revered. To- day our Illusions seem to be gone; weverything is obvious; no word is eft unsaid and no veil drawn.’ “Just what do you think is wrong with the dress, dance, music and He? manners of to-day?” I asked slender- 7 fi “uy erect, poised, courteous Dr, Hib- “Sben, when we had succeeded in fit- ' <ing an interview into an interstice "Sof his busy commencement week. #iAll four are symptoms of a great restlessness—a moral laxity, a period ar decadence,” he replied, with quiet Bemphasis. In referring to them I chose my words most carefully, since Ry'aid not wish to be sensational and yet desired to point out what I con- wider a very real danger. “The dress to which I refer is, of pourse, the immodest dress worn by many women of to-day.” “The backless evening gownt’ I Sausgested. ave"Yes, and all the rest of it!" ex: \ welaimed Dr. Hibben. “As for modern ¥ “dancing, what is a young man to “think when he asks a girl to dance with him and she immediately takes "one of the attitudes prescribed ,by e ballroom fashion of to-day? She 4s the first to assume this position; would not assume it toward her Mit used to be that men ruled women, tt nowadays it is the women who othe lead and rule the men.” though he would not be quoted that effect, it is the “cheek-to- ek" dancing to which Dr. Hibben wapecially opposed, jazz music,” he continued, “Is of piece with the other symptoms of and when I said that dern maniers show have Jost 7 r bearings I had in mind especially @ manners shown by one sex toward be other—the carcless ‘good fellow’ Py attitude of girls and men towird We PRAch other, the discussion of eyery Biudject in the baldest and frankest Nerms, the lack of the old modesty nd reserve. “The respect of young mon for Is who thus dress and dance and Wk is not merely lessening. it Is ost; it is gone, This is no longer mn age of chivalry. Yet for such con- ays we ditions I do not hold the girls pri-. marily to blame, In the broadest sense, the blame rests on society as & whole, but if any one group is to ‘be singled out, it is certainly Ameri- can mothers who have allowed their daughters to grow up and to go out in the world so lost to a sense of.re- sponsibility, or the fitness of things.” Then Dr. Hibben made thq state- ment I have quoted at the beginning of this story. “But when you complain,” I said, “of the loss of the ‘aura of mystery’ about the young woman of to-day, are ‘you not criticising a condition made inevitable by woman's entrance into business and into public affairs? And are you opposed to these interests of the modern woman?” “I am not referring,” Dr, Hibben said quickly, “to the responsible self- supporting woman who Is holding her own so splendidly in the business or Professional world. Nobody has a more profound respect for her than I. “The type I have in mind, who has lost the mystery which was at once her defense and her glory, is the young girl at home, the daughter who has not even been trained for self- support, or for anything else—the so- ciety butterfly.” Although he didn’t say so for publi- cation, the type in Dr. Hibben’s black books is that which is known col- loquially as the “baby vamp." She had better keep her hands and eyes off his Princetun boys. “She is not,” continued Princeton's President, “fitted to be a noble wife or a noble mother for the next gen- eration, ‘There are those who argug that she will change when these re= spousibilities are placed upon her, that she will meet them adequately. 1 hope she will. But suppose there are many of her who do not change? It she fails in her witehood and motherhood, the decadence of the American home nay be traced to her. “In what she wears, in the subjects she discusses with men, in the very language she uses, there 1s no re- serve, there is no illusion, And [ believe in illusions, especially about young girls; there ‘should be around them something of glamour, of ro- mance. I want to see the modern girl recapture these things. Their disappearance seems to me a part ot the general lowering of standards indicated by our dress, dances and divorces." “Yet are we not more strict than ever, in some ways?” I suggested. “Winston Churchill calls us ‘piou America,’ and we have Prohibition, “IE don't think Winston Churchill has seen us for some time,” smiled President Hibben. “As for’ Prohibi- tion, one of the first signs of a deca- lent society is that it tries to make itself moral by law instead of by the force of a healthy and vigorous pub- lic opinion.” “You were quoted as advocating a return to the ideals of the Pilgrim Fathers. Do you really want us to imitate them to-day?” 1 asked finally. “I only sald we might agcept some- what of the austerity of their morals without their austerity of manner,” replied Dr, Hibben. “Our present selfishness, extravagance and reck- lessness may be due tn no small measure to our reaction from the war, But having admitted that, there Is no reason why we should’ not fight against it and strive to raise the to: of our society, I do not.mean we should abolish dancing or anything like that. I am not an extremist. But 1 should like,” finished President Hibben with his kind, wise and pa- tient smile, “to see a little decency, It is getting hard to find,” Pai) + »Aeld’ Science Peru has estublished a school of military aviation and has purchased twelve French airplanes, while two seaplane services between coast ports are planned, ‘ To move automobiles laterally in garages a low wheeled platform has been invented that is propelled by an electric motor taking current from an overhead wire, An automobile tire, made of several metal bands separated by aluminum blocks, that has been invented in England is claimed to be almost as resilient as rubber, Featured by a cylinder containing a piston with a lifting force of eight tons, hydraulic apparatus hag been invented for pulling up pling, even from deep water. British interes: will establish an aerial mall sérvice over a route 2,600 miles long in South America, from Pernambuco to Buenos Ayres, with stops at ten points between, * Pl FFLE - TRUST MONEY @ LOAN, WILL You LOAN ME SOME Money ? WHAT SECURITY CAN YOu GIVE ME > I'LL GIVE You MY By Will B, Johnstone. (Copy right, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) “Give me a thrill!!! Give me a thrill!!! Make me quiver Like a flivver Going up @ hill 1” ‘That's what they always sing at Coney Island, and the management &rows gray about the temples keep- ing the patrons neurotically happy. As a result the Island looks like the the illustrations In the magazines de- voted to nut inventions, If Mr. Coney could see his old island to-day and observe the meni- acal mechanisms conducive to breath- less thrills he would undoubtedly say that all the place needs is a padded fence, The aerial wheels, teetering cantt- levers, gyrating towers and huge whiligigs of steel segm the mental vagaries of a deranged “widge worker. Each has a little movement all ite own, You can tingle in every known direction, or all directions at once. The “Scrambler” seems to be the most popular of the new movements in Luna Park this season, This move- ment is a cross between a waltz, the ghimrile ard a rear-end collision. Children cry for it, It is a kener- ator by . great rpvolving steel disc upon which move ‘detached cars, cir- in a:3e bound all around by ™c, By Maurice Ketten IF | WAS BiG INCOME _E WOULDN'T WAITING THRILL weigas buffers, and the dise waltz besins. Then the erated and the cars scoot inclored surface until occurs r bits you) and that's shimmie comes in. “It aids digestion and | perfumes the breath” a8 the ad's state. Do not eat raw eggs before getting on this thriller or you'll be scrambled to death, The Luna balloon ascension prom- ises to be thriller provided the rope breaks during an off-shore gale, Some of the milder thrills include the giant top which rattles around in drunken circles shaking its car-full of joy riders until their eyes pop out after the fashion of the kewpie dolls that ogle you on Surf Avenue. “Over the Top" also senda the blood jaz- zing around your right auricle into your left ventri This is a car that shoots-the-chute down steep inclines around hair pin turns, mean- while revolving like a plane doing a tall spin. Aviators might like this. When you are not thrilled by other devices too numerous to mention you can calm yourself by watching the Swedish acrabats (man girl) light themselves with torches and while aflame dive from a hundred feet into a tank of burning gasoline. After this thriller you decide it should be called Luny Park and you leave the madhouse of Coney for the idyllic and peaceful hush of the sub- way home which can only boast of tary movements. spring The filled the Bam! (anotther where the ten cars are” Ine Oef on FENCE ah 1040, by The Prom Publishing Co, (The Ni Copyright, ee Sree {NTO pire STEEPLECHASE pAakec Es ae whine “TURNS SEE by the papers,” said Popple, the Shipping Clerk, “that home beer making is beco: ming quite the thing now that Prohibition is in effect." Trouble brewing for the Govern- sald Bobbie, the Office Boy. body who Tu say @ Stenographer, “He sure Is a corker,” ch bie. Miss Primm, the Hoss, swung around in an make good beer said Miss Tillie, inped Bob- Private Secretary to her chatr. “You're full of jokes to-day,” ehe sald to the boy. “Pull of prunes, you mean," growled P Now, the mild now!" came from Spooner, little Bookkeeper.’ “Let's change the subject and be pleasant, 1 received an awful bump on the head this morning. ture when It fell out of the “Bo. sald Miss I was hanging a pic frame and the frame, unds like a Primm to ow what do you think? It has struck home,” “Like Babe Ruth often does,” val- unteered Bobbie. “Heavens!” said Popple. “Le there IRDIPCO@o York Evening World.) no way to stop that boy? He'll drive me nutty, “More nutty, you mean, don't you?” suggested Bobbie “That will do for you!” snapped Popple. “You haven't got sense enough to come in out of the rain.” “Go ahead and soak him," sald Miss Primi “Why not let the rain do that?” asked the boy, smiling “My land!" snapped Miss Primm. ‘Can't we get that boy out of this room? It we can’t get him fired let's get him promoted. ‘A good scheme,” said Popple. Why don't you suggest it to Mr. Snooks? “I will Miss Primm went into the Boss's private office and s00n emerged fol- lowed by Mr. Snooks. “It's a nice little compliment you folks are paying Bobbie by suggesting I promote him,” said he. m glad t alize his worth, 1 “I don't od Bobbie merely do my duty, r deserve I that's all." “We think he ought to be promoted to the shipping department,” su- gested Miss Primm, The Boss thought a moment. he finally said, “there ts no opening {n that department for him, but I tell you 1 cap do’ ‘UL Post Office to Ouija Said: “Write a Book,” So Mrs, Lane and. Mrs. Beale Follow Spirit Instructions “To Walk With God,’’ the Title “Work for Others, Adopt Children, Then There Will Ba No More ‘Orphan Asylums,” Among the Commands,» Ooprrtaht, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wotld), MR. HERE really must be something in apiritual communicationf spirits have been taken up by Our Best People! Which is, perhaps, a somewhat frivolous introduction to the nouncement of a remarkable new book of supposed messages from There,” a book called “To Walk With God” and prepared for publication by two of the leaders of Washington society, Mra. Franklin K. Lane, wife of the former Secretary of the Interior, and Mrs. Harriet Blaine daughter of James'J. Blaine. The book is published by Dodd, Mead ‘The contents of the book were re-+ ceived by the authors writing auto- matically together, making use of the Planchette, It was at a party that tho culja begged Mrs. Lane to WRITE BOOK, and directed that Mrs Beale be sent for. “Mra. Lane considered it a great joke,” gaid Mrs. Beale, when in viewed in her Washington home, “but she telephoned me to come to tea the next day and told me all about it. Wo tried the oulja and ‘the communiva- tion we received was of so serious 4 nature that we decided to continue. The matter in the book ts arranged form of two eets of lessons, traight ethical discourses somewhat on the order of short ser. mons. The two most strongly em- phasized ideas are that the two com. mands laid on humani “Love.” Two short “To Walk With God’ heert of the book’ greatest power in the world is love. The only work that is worth while is work for others.” “What sort of love and work?” we may ask. ‘Adopt children” ts one of the book's concrete answers to this ‘For until the material things of life lead them astray,” we read, “little cMildren are very near the spirit work, and often a@ little child will see and hear what their other more materialistic elders do not perceive until they are of the #pirit. And as iri ji noi} will be no more orphan stunt the children's minds and but each will take his brother's and care for It as his own. } “Many are called, but few chosen to do this work, and all can must do their part on earth afterwards, too, All who are ail¢ should adopt little children. “Children brought up by those wha listen to the spirit are better fitted 5 do their work on earth, and ment is far more potent than think. All who are doing th! doing God’s work.” one other pa: 1 should like to quote from “To ‘With God,” for the snke of its beau- tiful reassurance to those who mot ‘To Mrs, Lane and Mrs, Beale—one whom lost only son in the: 8t, Mihiel drive—those they be. lieve to be spiritual guides assert earnestly: “There is no truth in thie—that wa re without affection and not inter« ested in the world. We love as do, We are more interested ever in those we loved on earth, our one desire is to help them and . have them with us in this beautiful place. Christ has given us the we must open the door. all come here in time, only why delay coming when the ey is eee shown vs ed all who open nds?” ‘The garr, amily Copyright, 1990, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World). O you notice the summer styles—what do you think of them? asked Mrs. Jai who was trying to lead Mr. Jar along the line of least resistance in the matter of augmenting her ward- robe. “What do I think? Jarr. “Well, I can't tell you what I think, there being @ lady present; but I will say that I wouldn't call them dresses—I'd call them weather replied Mr you think you're smart, don’t said Mrs. Jarr. “I think they are synonymous of the emancipation of our sex.’ “Then, Fashion has put the sin in synonymous,” retorted Mr. Jarr. “It looks to me that women are dressing to attract attention—and, then, after the attention is attracted, they say they're insulted.’ “Nothing of the kind,” declared Mrs. Jarr, “The present trend of fashion shows, as I said, the growth of woman's self-reliance.” “I don't get you, I mean compre- hend you,” said friend husband. “Spill it, I mean elucidat “Far from dressing to attract at- tention,” Mrs. Jarr went on, “the styles of the day sure illustrative of woman's self-reliance, as I said, To instance, dresses buttoning in the back have gone out.” e out of the raise his pay $5 a week and leave him In his present position.” “Thank you, sir,” said Bobbie. The Boss smiled and disappeared in hia private office. A look of chagrin spread over the faces of Popple and Miss Primm, “Wheu!” came from Popple. “Ain't that awful?” Bobble arose and bowed solemnly. “I thank you, my loving friends,” he said. Then be discreetly beat it for the wot the mail, ‘And the pumps that are now it vogue,” Mra, Jarr continued, not minding bis remark. “What woman needs a man to tle her ties now?” “No shoes to tie, no backs to hoolt or button, well, I should become de- Pressed!” said Mr. Jarr blithely, “So, therefore,” Mrs. Jarr went to bring her remarks to the it I turned it and seeds it over, I put new chiffon with ‘Yes, yes, go on,” said Mr, Jarr in« terrupting. “You have freed yor slave, no axe to grind, no fish to try, no umbrellas to mend, no backs te emancipation has come Mrs. Jarr went on calmly, “as it is now the dull sea« son with dressmakers, I'm think of getting & couple of dresses for now that I've got my summer to go away with, but"—— But what?" asked Mr, Jarr, ‘But if I do get some some dresses made we will the money to go away this “Anything to make you Ye sauiefied to gtay in town, t yout dresses and fet us not hie us te Arcady. “But what will people say? Every: body goes away,” whimeures Mre Jai ell let us buy two weeks at seashore instead of the new di for the autumn's ceaseless round social triumphs,” suggested Mr. Jarn wear this Jarre eadly, “and what and not have ™ | ;