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TUESDAY MARCH 1, 1921 Things Nice Girls MAY _ And MAY NOT Do Can You Beat It! By Maurice Ketten SHORT SKIRTS Ov re LOW NECKS PETTING PARTIES It’s the Other Things Kathleen Norris, the Author- ess, Objects To, Priricipally Hip Flasks at Dances and Motor Parties. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. be Copyright, 1981, hy the Pro Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World.) ee MB girl of to-day is not one bit worse than the girl of ten, of ‘ thirty, of fifty, of a hundred years ago. There is no more mis- F chief—probably leas—between her and the boy of to-day than Whore ever was between youngsters, AS for whether she is hurting her whances of marriage by her gay do- tmre—well, I don’t see the boys shun- ming her short-skirted, low-necked welt for the sweet, quict, old-fashioned girl with a mother hubbard buttoned up to her chin!" ‘That is the verdict of one of the Kindest, wisest judges of modern girl- hood I have ever known—Kathleen Norris, who in “Harriet and the Piper,” “Saturday's Child,” “Mother,” and a number of other widely popular novela, has set down with shrewd ob- servation, warmed by friendliest sym- pathy, the strugete: » sufferings, tthe “long, long thoughts” of youth. Mrs. Norris and her husband, Charles G. Norris—also a novelist, and a brother of the late Frank Nor- wis—have just sailed for Europe, but they stopped over a few days in New York, en route frem thei prune farm, (N. B.—Thete ja no con- nection between the prunes and Mrs, Norris's ideas about the girl of to- day.) I welcomed the opportunity to ask this charming young woman, who knows her New York—she sived here and on Long Island for years—if in- alifornia KATHLEEN 4 i deed our girls are as naugiity as Mrs Nomen Grundy says they are. Se “All the criticisms of the modern 1," began Mrs. Norris, “fall for me Sure slic n't do that to-day into two divisions. In one division ClA#slc Joke of that cra was the story of how litte brother opened the par- ‘are the complaints of her short skirts, lor door and peeked at big sister sit- her refusal to wear corsets, her fond» Big in the lap of her beau. It has cigarettes, her frank conver- NOt remained for the youth of this Rees for: cigars; generation to discover juve-making sation on all subjects, her partiopa- tion in petting parties. 1 cannot take ‘or ‘petting partie ern nomenclatur to use the mod- these charges seriousiy, for they do By this time you must have realized. not elmnify the breaking of a moral Nofuld at the beginning, that Mra, jaw, And I am not willing to admit from her farm, So you ‘ahitl man that, gonerally speaking, the girl of the criticism of the iodern iil today is any worse than she ever Which she puta in a separate division was—in fact, I think her attitude to- 4! by itself, the warning in which she joins, Even on this poi it is the girl's mother, rs the girl, that Kathleen Ne ward life is decidedly more healthy, fm some respects, than the attitude of otheg generations of girls. olds “{ Was shopping the other @ay with "sponsible. a little friend of mine, and she re- Mf I were the mother of a daugh fused to buy silk stockings with cot- f€h" she told me, incisively, “{ would * ton tops. ‘Your knees show, nowadays, SY to her: "You may fight, you imay ery, you may les ptton mill @ ho to work in as You are just as much as any other part,’ she © observed. ‘Oh, @hocking!’ some one ® willexclaim. Yet I can remember, in !" your home. under my care, you my girlhood, how women were de- will not go to a party where the nounced for wearing LONG skirts— Young men o the gir! or both, carry refreshments £0, even if n flasks. Mi stay at ho for two years." will not rom all ‘street cleaners’ we used to be called, and ‘carpet sweepers.” “The problem of the corset haunts every generation. It always has, and n that point I would be ada it always will. When my mother was Mant,” sie added. “Personally, [al a git, her friends not only wore cor- Ways have been « tectotaller, but I ets, Dut laced them so tightly that Can sce two sides to the subject of {hey fainted away in church and had Prohibition for adults. As regards the to be carried out so that the laces Youngstera, it seems to me there is could be cut. When 1 was a Kirl we only one side, And as I tol : were wild to wear corsets—and our York mother just the other mothers said, ‘Nice little girls of six- woman who allows her little nehter teen of seventeen anust not put them “nd booze to come together will reap on—perhaps you may wear them when © whirlwind, you are twenty and grown-up.’ And Booze in the one r al danger in the (GLANCE WIFEY | HAVE BROUGHT YOu A MAID. Go MAKE REDS AND SWEEP? SHE WON'T Do ! SHE IS NaTHIng BuTA TAE JARB FAMILY {BEAUTY ° BY Foy Is . MFCARDELL + ° AND - Copyrteht, 1921. hy ‘The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) ron the street as I “You are lal “ce ET Stryv for dinner and we'll —“ M was coming home, He's have to hurry,” she said. 1 prom- is TH just back from a trip to Md Mra. Hickett to attend a mecting ae nf the Moral Reform League. Prof Bow that girls ere letving off corncts PACE SBR Snot Re Rint Awan Wel sia looked finn and quite sun~ Gamuel Slurk is to address It on “The SY Baran mace tan B ‘ciam for doing that. Mrs. mdy of going to Westchester to attend the OFalt, 1YMl, by the Prose Publishing Co ; sald he had a great time nace of the Movies. oorigit, 1881, Ly the, Prewy Preilidiing Ce need not worry. The next generation coming-out party of hia debutante yy, Irie New Yor Brenig Work.) chattered Mr. Jarr gaily as a smo me, L like ‘em dia ret Beit wear corsets from, here’—Mra, nivce. He arrived at the party a litth No. 17—Puccini’s ‘The Girl of screen wo hide the fact that he was this meotin ave to go 10 Home Treatment for Acne. line to her knee, “And then,” she had not merely taken liquor,’ he in- is 184, the time of the gold fever, lis nose was red, if that's what daaire to, ‘The Moral Reform Leasive Uvity of the oil glands added, prophetically, “the girls will formed me, ‘they were drunk, 1 ld and the miners hold forth in the YOU Mean by ‘sunburn,’ said Mra. Wants Oran sehr iie thee that att may farm tite lamps be told that it’s dreadfui for them to to steady my Httle nlece when 1 took Polka. bar-room at the foot of Jarr coldly. “Becnuse Mrs. Stryver py Smatorn: bd cide Bia ihag po a under the surface, or pus germs may ir Desa Lee smoking?” 1 apke aL aR lollies Cloudy Mountain, Cal. Jack Rance, Won't lec him guzzie at home from league will appoint the committees, effect an entrance and cause sap “pa von think itis shocking for girls two cars filled Set WHICH the sheriff, wants Minnie, a beautiful all the liquor they have in the cellar Mrs. Hickett way he will be local Purating pimples, an 1 several of these to use clrarettes?"* tan’ thelr escorts and pleatiful Young girl, to marry him, but she he goes to Bermuda, where he can in tithe repaiet sty HSE eUNS ae De may milexwe und form unsightly “1 can't see that it is," supply of alcohol left « party at mi # not care for him. Howover, she dulge all he desires! Tearing lpichites. (or nothing and wil of Fee eee ieee ewan, T tonce mliltaee San bic inetiens (be tact! thos she Haw amiy agen: kim Asked Ori Jaen inncosntly; ay thal amoral and shall be sunpreaged al disease, u ansociated with have 2 husband who has smoked all hushed the matter up, Nohody knows fice before. When he comes jnto the this fact would have been the sup icing Will yout” aaked aie de Pep Id Chap RD) BIEN: Coan AG FINE ava \iite; and) eonalder Cher He ts sxnclly. wine Honpened saloon she asks him to come to her pression of all of Mr, Stryver's di sall¢/? teplied’ Bure tary, udolescence ly adult life. After le bi ec Beer FRORINE NBR fe eee pe Saas Nor- cabin, where they will be undisturbed sires in the matter of strong driv x only, good people who this period u tendency to dis There Was a moment's pause. Mrs iy givea onan aanentar ne arty hy the crowd, which baw gone off to “You did not need to ask him to yng re TO rah snd what {9 not, nppenr spon ancously Norris's delicately shaped, sensitive of fhe most prominent women in gan bunt Ramerrez, the bead of a band know that!” replied = Mr Inte: tay onnihanteeae One Wha Acne will not yield to local meas- ant ee a en ent eg Teteanlty rranclere # ery It was held at a of outlaws, who i reported to be in “Didn't that man Stryver teM you li “Well, L won't go to the meeting.” U'% Only. ‘The most rigid hygien than sho had yet shown Het Soman Pen CUentie the viein had a good time?” nid Mr. Jerr, “but when the law ng munt be enforeed, month in “Al ghe said, “I have ab- suegts, iit the young men had th i Johnson makes his way “Well, I really forgot to ask pen he pEeerae o: » hen you and month out, Every finetion Oe ey aha et Semen Prowched fiagcs, they. mixed champagno high- ‘Proush the bilszard to the girl's Mra. Stryver had been on ¢ No YOU. WOR'L" ReMarked OR eee ee ee eat that what was Tight for one was And tise things and the scone cabin, but he has no sooner entered with him tered Mr. Jarr r firmly. “You'd only enjoy them)" ‘ly conducted and ah fucvs of Witag tor the ether, that boys rust Poco uproarions, The mother cal "1 than the soud of approaching men “Of course you didn't,” sniffed Mre.! _ taldosd: are vant is Pedy be brave and girls must be pure, t at your things inithe eloele soon peal comes from the trall, Not wishing to Jarr. “But the question was \nne mentee 4 O aRaiiee must sow their wild oats, that e fo on raat oy toctelt brothers and. £° home. Your father and 1 wil! end be found with her fover, Minnie hides essary, as [ suid. ‘That man Stryver 7 , he ut aanliness, not alone Slr brothers’ friends, that men ‘his party. him in the loft of the cabin. Rance never goes anywhere with his wife verybody 8 of the exterior but of the interior of Uvely simple process, but it may be thole Brothers Lien ee ad questions "Daughter obeyed. When the questa “od a group of miners come in and rie a lot of other men I know--it he : the body and of the clothing, must be necessary to use a blackjack on a didn't like @ girl who asked Guestion® came to her mother and father to tell her that Ramerros, the outlaw, 14 4 Working Now erved, and when the regime has or view always has seomed to me thank them for the delightful evening none other than the man known as €@9 help it, I can’t say as 1 blame ie iwoll ontered intoand 16 ‘’ press agent, and nothing short of @ utterly nauseating. And the thing Le to as wise fle Sought i had cobnec i! they have gone him, for that woman drives me wild ne aye vida SOHeEs: TAG, ssiy pursued it will be found that meat axe makes the slightest {m ‘hat makes me hopeful about the girl £2" Yr 8a sent her home, Johnson descends fr the loft and ‘phe only wonde ma ay doesn’t work? the loeal condition will yield to treat- progsi peony ~ LD Ki elo day le that ane aittinn anny because 1 did not eare to have her Aantal es the sheriff told the truth me m ep A iil ; + . Lk 1 According tova report by ent. A yrated spwcial al ady prewsian on a sixteen-year-old boy Ww. King payee 1 from it, that she is saying to the Wwnnt Is pong on Be And do See Te is, the Greaged’ hamerres ee ite. ie ee SY’ Qthe student employment bure FS Yih el Bo ate Ll ata) ob PI ee pa ap 8 0OrTy Oe ys, ‘If a thing right fo it's ¥en know—of course the story spread 3 wnruly whe se him out into the {8 @ good wife, even /f there is no J i pio) ag Duran 0! ning camorn salicylic weld, re After reading the sermons on the wt hs 4 eat forme; i¢ its wrong Yor’ me, lke wildfire—that girl acquired social blizvurd living with her.’ Harvard, half of the University’s rein, or sulphur ‘ modern girl from the editorial pens Till his housekeeper bought i wrong for You. prestige for the rest of the season A shot bréaks the silence of the “I suppose she xed AM ntudent body of 6,000 iy working its For the ordinary toilet of the twoe Bond Bread “guperficially, the girl of to-day g# Just from that incident mountainside, and svon Johneon, #€- Jane, “Pye heard tl ihe way through college. ‘Those whog {Pe skin should be bathed several of Agjherst and Brown, one yearns fi acuperticiatly, the girl of today.te “Another thing the San Francineo verely wounded, staggers into’ the ve heard the lad oa vay the akin should be bathed several © wg, Gilbert to sing again of © Then he cried full of Uberty of epeech, tolerance for her hostesses are discouraging ia taylizht cubin. Rance’s voice in heard, Once Stryver out myself” pad regular or casual employment@ whichever soup ‘4 preferred, no “What a very singularl mirth: digarctte, But in essentials, 1 be- dancing,” Mrs. Norris added. “As | more the wounded man ds to the "Pl 2 don't use such expressiony § uring the last college year earnedg creamy being applied, but after the nat a very singularly pure young F reat u pike “She je Solditus the boys of her heard one woman say to her daugh where bo collapecs, and MinDle ‘ae ‘bs ‘The children pick them g7more than $7,000, ‘The positions bath dust ected arena with man this pure young man must be! ‘Here’s a bread that is Hequaintance up to a more Frigid ter, ‘Any yeung man who has nothing ‘4#rle Lo meet the guerit iance ex- ot » Pranged from professional house mele ilove are two! Powdered h ee ee te ertor doe 10.40 thetween four and seven In the pects to find the fugitive in the cabin, UP and then t ihaye to punish (hum, Bed p al house 4 pounds; salleylic acid, 1 Perhaps, as the female magazines wort {hing the knows more than ahe ever afternoon but dance simply isn’t but is convinced by the carnowt denial, Hd Mrs. Jarr, “But what time did hunting for woulf-be tenants to ounce, Or, powdered Ualy, - pound Twice as much as the did. Bhe can say, she does say, to Worth your attention,’ of Minnie, As h¢ is about to leave a Mr. Stryver's boat getin? It's a won tructor of danguages to an in-§ carbolic acid ce, Mix used to assert, running blue ribbons ” ‘a young man: “I understand exactly , “If the New York girl of to-day," drop of blood comes through the 10086 der you did not use that » goats of an insane asylum, Other xqueeze a pimple, Hoften the into Hngerie was once the infallible crown on my head. What youmean, Dut Ido net allow the novelist ended, “and het motter rafters of the loft and falls upom hia eR ie Way's AE G8.An excuse skin, then open the plinple with a hod k etithee for myself nor for other would not countenance socially the hand, Minnie suggests that they play ‘ Stay out late with that man Rangle, $ Students were walters, chauffeurs? sterilized needle (sterilize by holding monthod: of, Reaping 9. Husband. /Byt girls,’ o fos snes Of her parties, I be- cards. If she wins Johnson ts to live; You used to say you had to visit « furnace-tendera, choremen, hotel the needle over a small flame, a light- nowadays a knowledge of how to I remarked to Mra. Norris at this lieve she would confute the one just | she lo she will marry the she lodge brother who was sick, but now @olerks, wood-choppers and players ed natch will serve the purpose), 6x- prepare home brew and midnight point that the militant moralists who criticism of her actions and do a object to “petting parties" scem to splendid thing for herself, As for hér ing. it’s staying out to see friends off on peroxide of hydrogen. Finally, rub in forget that they were 8 parlor pas- so-called, immodest dress apd the The outlaw has recovered and leaves * long journe ing pights and sleeping only five the following ointment. Resorcin, ime—with the gas turned low—even other indictments againat her, those the cabin, only to be caugi the “Well, eome o: kf fe who Qnoura, wade $50 a week, Another§ vunce; zin Je, 1 ounes ch, 1 Ut ts So easy to fool a man that waee eaotiar eras & girl, io ATO ualmportent. stems. 1h. he etate forest by the Pease, Sip te about ta be ded Ee OTe OE ay a eee GS acted ug governcas for a group iota “Anes: pelroleuts, Mounnen,, - ¢ every woman with a rudimentary Mndeed they were!’ «ne wssenied, of transition in which she finds her- hung when Minnie arrives and pleads Mr. Jarr pious! : f ation» of teat antcold, i with @ reminiscent smile "Why, in self—trom which, 1 have taith, sbe for his fife. Moved by her words, they Mrs, Jar wan aint pula Ata Malas yosork Guribg yw » (applied senwe of chivalry practises her wiles the it was perfectly praper will as a Girl of To-.Morrow agree to let shi. a " ‘be consol Lit Bhe thought i @fhe summer, and made $id ia ; Neco aeons bund on peers of h for a ‘s nobler finer than the Gin of Yen Fe 10 eat him go, { lespite the pro- could be consoled. tut bie thought ii § | a tremely helpful. There are, how peers of her oWn #€X, § of Rance, and the couple eave was no use—especlally af ghe had one ever, cases which yield to nothing 7 to sit | He agrees, and the girl wins by ch te begin a vew life elsewhere, pal, the contents a in Jaze bands. One student, work- another matter on her mind, ‘ but X-ray trealgpent, vee are re needle tomo “= er dawbing on CH 1, 1921 he Beware of the Crowds, T PROHIBITIONIST BLUE LAW AGITATOR BOOK CENSOR If You Don't Believe It, Read the Analyses Above Reformers and See How Their Mental Machinery Works. By Roger Batchelder. Copyright, UM, by "The Prone Publishing Co, (The Kew York Sresing Pein aa trouble with thie country ts—crowds, of the ‘The cause of Prohibition, of loDbying, of persecution erance is—crowds, ‘The greatest asset of the blue law agitators te—crowds. But here ie the saddest fact of all: x “Unless some one starts a pro-tobacco ‘But to get back to the fragrant non-fragrant gose-warmer, We crusade and proves to the NOWsPAPEr Giste « little pootry— . reading public that the us@ of MICO- am peer tine by everybody in equal amount te Fl “ee “Obviounly, absolutely necessary for the preser- asserts Little Robert is already obscased. vation of the American homo, for eco- nomfe efficiency and the future mil- & curious intersat in tobacco, ight tary supremacy, we shall doubtless Stet word shows that he has ie. sil doa wo ebliged to pink Gow lar Sein’e eonece oem a siti shah nection with himself. Should o crowd”. re the cellar and smoke our pipes in the of persona struggling with a: dark." pre ona succeed in domi fy i Think of that, ladies and gentle- 7» tobacco would become . men, Picture the master of the house oe ae woald soqaire 6 Sean in the darkened cellar, decorating an ad it does not have et agh can in the coalbin, pipe in mouth, So with all our while Friend Wife and the young hopefuls guard the coast to give warning against the sniffing agent of the Blues. Or imagine Milady i the attic, with the (tap door closed, furtively inhaling the last of the final box of violet-scenteds, ‘The blusb of shame which now bloom: on the brow of the modern chemist as he takes the capping machine from under the sink will surely become a deep crimson as he prods beneath the bookcase with the poker for the fragrant stogie, O terhpora, O gee whis The warning comes frem the of Kverett Dean Martin, whose ook, “The Behavior of Crowds" (Harper), lias just been published, Moreover, it is given in all seriousness. Mr. Martin has also analyzed the mind of the Probibitioniat, the intolerant book censor, ‘the bite law agitator, He has done something that has seemed to be impossible, He has luid open the'y mental machinery, and showed how it works Read this if you have been daged (for one reason or several others) since the ban on the wily enifter, the deadline of the “quick one,” the wake of the “inhalation.” “There wre the dog‘in-the-manger people who, because they cannot pass a saloon door without going in and getting drunk, cannot see @ mov- ing picture or read a modern book or visit a bathing beach without be- ing tormented, insist upon setting up their own perverted @ilemmas as the moral standard of everybody, They are always strong for “brotherly love,” for keeping up with wppear- ances, for removing temptation from the path of Hfe, for uniform etand- ards of belief and conduct. “Each crowd, in its desire to become the majority, to hold the weaker breth- ren within fts fold, and especially as every one of us bas a certain amount of the “little brother’: weakness in his own nature—the crowd invariably plays to this sort of thing and bids for lis #upport.”” And here ix how it all happened: People have only to be persuaded that Prohibition or equal buffrage or the single tax ‘ls coming,’ and thou- sands whose reason could not be moved by argument, however logical it might be, will begin to look upon it with favor. ‘The crowd is hever so much at home as ‘on the band wagon.’ The story of the recent Highteanth Amen ment shows how easy it {9 for a de and mmtole | There is the whole solution, And #0, if in a year or two, you are up when the agents find a pipe-cleaners in the set can't oor Mr Martin warned you to keep a’ crowds, > Se OST assuredly Mary Roberts M Rinehart is numbered among those American women make $26,000 or More a year, for she is probably the ‘most widely én authoress (n the world and is also accomplished playwright, , marriage to Dr. Rtantey M. Rinebart she was o trained nurse in a Pitts burgh hospital, Her first novel, “Tt Circular Statrease,” published in @\ 1) termined crowd, even though in @ minority, to force its favorite dogmas blnelth 3 be tag ba ieee upon the whole community. assured her a’ bigh place im Here's anather hot one, straight esteem. She is now one of the writers of the country whe from the shoulder i figures for short stories, and he majority not only usurps the tres peters place of the king, but it tends to aixo taken a leading position x subject the whole range of buman piay brokerage business, Mrg Rimes © thought and fohavior to ‘ta am- hart has three sons, o1 * thority-—everything, In fact, that any is now in Harvard; anoth once, disliking bia neighbors to do, ness mao in New York. She may Wosh to pak a Itw againgt opo granddaughter, Mary very personal habit and custom be- Rinehart 2d. Mes. Rinehart's home comes & matter for public concern.” in Sewickley, Pa, ; MAXIMS an'e mouth, even when he is in é with her, is because he considers: OF A mode for use and not for ornament, MODERN MAID agi IMARGUERITE MOOERS “ARS/ALL Canveiatit, 381, iy the Prom Prbiting, 0x he Nee ork Brenig Wort! NE drawback to diver that its treaty of repert tions ~~ alimony * much er to pues than to enforce. Snubbing a man is a cdmpara lunches is much more valuable. Probably the reason why atuan | etre