The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1921, Page 19

MONDAY, RCH 21, 1921 ETHEL M. KELLEY, NOVELIST, PRESENTS Modern Girl’s Own Story . From Her Own Viewpoint AEE CONE "ram Sees No Hatm in Short Skirts and Low Necks but Deplores ‘Flask Parties’’ — Thinks Mother Should Know More About Daughter's ¥ Friends and Where She Goes. - ae. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. sielti Copyeight. 1921, by the Pree Pubtishing Co. (The Now York Bvening World) ~~~ T last we have it—the Modera Girl's own story from the Modern Girl's point of view. Mrs. Grundy’has scolded her, the college boys have “knocked” her, friendly souls have come to her defense. What, all the time, has she been thinking? What ts her own re- ‘| ection to life? When she jooks in the mirror of her heart and mind a abe eee a bold, immodest convention smasher or a high spirited, romantic, sorely puzzied youngster? The answer is in “Beauty—and Mary Blair,” written by Ethel M. Kelley, but in form and essence the flapper’s story as told by the flapper herself, In this basically serious and realistic novel of American girlhood, Published only a fow days ago, a typical New York girl, who ie not of “society” or of the slums, but a resi- @ent of that—comparatively—unex- plored territory lying between Cen- eral Park West and Riverside Drive, pictures herself and her world from the inside looking out. In the girl's own words, from the facts of the gir's life, the rest of uf find the answers to such questions us WHY “nice” girls make restaurant dances a rendezvous for the young map whom their parents hardly iknow; WHY these girls are kissed by mea whom they have no thought of mar- ing; WHY they no longer confide |*¥ he moderm tether ts dodging A nee mothers—and otler “prob. [aeesPonsibility of fathering. Per- u haps le isn’t like Mary Blairs father, lems of modern girlhood” which so helping hand-painted sirens to break exercise our professional and ama- Rictaan Gent titin cea berhapa the “Be. “a « teur censors. ‘Beauty—and Mary gic hound ana Diets clavenn Tike Blair,” by the way, has shocked sume Mrs. Blair, But she is likely to bo of them out of their boots, and ie deine chtb work, or saving starving sure to create other electrical dis- 4.2 "oni#ns, or waving her country’s flag, instead of carefull; turbances. But I should fike to make cr daughter; just as pA ig ed me it compulsory reading tov every father #° busy at his office that he h “§ time to get ucquainted with his wan and mother, Ev . son. . ? ery ole seems so much more in. For this is what its charming terested in doing other wore {a young author said to me, when I WOrk instead of his or her own, ‘e called at her apartment, No, 136 QOsiNg responsibilities at home and Bast Sixteenth Street, to’ talk over fenton yee “Incidentally, I thi Jane Jones and all the other tlappers pots Tee ret oernaae they cannot “The girl of to-day had rather be A? ‘s turning us into . i # nation of law-breakers and cheata, What she calls ‘a good sport’ than Whoever heard of flask parties or what her grandmother called ‘a per- !t was Dowible to serve light punch? fect lady,’ but she is as truly inno- JUSt as strong alcohol itself has a Worse physica sc : cent as the girl of any generation. girls than on ean tom, boys and ‘There's nothing the matter with her detiance of the law has except youth and high spirits. What Chological effect.” _ 1S wrong ix the morale ot her | Miss Kelley refuses to blame the mily, ube disintegration of its life, Modern girl on many of the specitic id the responsibility therefor rests Counts made against her, “Our prand 6n father and mother—not on little mothers showed as much of theeasner daughter!" Dart of their bodies as girls show to- Or to express the situation in day," she pointed out, “and I'm in. Mary Blair's words: “What do you clined to think that’ a alsplay ‘oe suy to your m when you've calves is more modest than the efforts just sven your father basking in to make a tempting mystery of the the smiles of a hand-painted siren, As for petting partion they wey breaking the Prohibition laws with merely a new name for the apeonian, the aid of a conceuled flask? There the buggy riding of the earliee se is no dovbt that it’s uncanny to have tons. To the girl they mem resnn your father or mother philandering, sentiment—nothing pent pea more ‘ however innocently.” ayer nanny appalling: “With al) the subversive, er cosmic Unset! manitestation of teachings that are floating around N a to-day, Dbertant that fathers and mot should show their children the diffe ence between right and wrong, that," I laughed, ¥ insist that the young-things conform “ Sil that knows where she gets off, to them. Somebody's got to keep 294 that m the books. It is non: se to gay t @ girl is unmanageable—when « needs is to be spanked and put to # bermanent hed!” continued Miss Ke Dut with a firm tilt of her prettily “i!hout ever getting out beyond a younded, obin, tain point where the ice is too thin. ‘here’ ninety-nine one-hundredths of boys and girls, But they nee taught, to be guarded carefully; ir Kelle to be in th they mis and nothing they say about it what parents ety it. Payents nowadays let ( girls of fourteen run around as word: “I think a family ou is they were of age. But they're not ordinate as one man. eine te hana —in law or in development.” of it moves—either Parental head— In “Beauty—and Mary B) Mary the children out to wiggle 80 mamy remarks, apropos of her semi Tet fingers and toes,” Taectings: with a certain young cad “As fot mother, she ought to be are for. By Maurice Ketten {Sure EASTER OUTFIT THIS HAS BEEN A PERFECT DAY!] HAD A BOOST OF SALARY) ( SHOPPING LET He ONE PERFECT HAVE YOU FAITH ND now the illustrious Maeter- \inck is hard at work on a book THE EASTER GIFT. HE shops that « instructions in the mak- ing of beads with sealing wax are busy centres days. Those women eagerly, bending over the alcoho] jamp and working with their She gives al) and aaks nothing io except that she b She hugs close to her heart all who Jokes that were told te her one that the milk-weed giyes Us 1 could go on and (ive accounts of answer, to the ery of distress or des- Utution or disquietude + for t > A seems to me especially lin- yiew'—-, ‘N® Medern boy's paint of Mary Blair's ‘Tommy expresses that Y . in the words of should set up definite standards and {24 normally naive youth: “He likes great wizard of electricity, 18 working communicate with Interesting matter, indeed, but time will tell the truth, whether lack of Knowledy loss of love appreciation. on a machine If every human being much he de. n not looking for the living soul of Nature, which is ever- most beautiful necklaces thut will make inexpensive, but de- Gdedly attactive Hater gifts. All the women are not mak- ing beads. A large number are decorating vases and thus turn- out most artistic kes a fellow comfortable and that keeps herself right up to the tyne ™4rk. He'd prefer to have her have ave if she gets it done smiling, "bt, and to have her be 9 good sport “te communion ‘The well kuown communicate with former com- id is greater conceived tim to be I think He is ‘a common sort of fei Mapity has ev we are earthbound body und soul, there is so n cling with a certainty and @ sense of eve; present . and seek out nothing wrong inside with _ “Modern youth is innocent,” Misa concluded. “But of all things world innocence is most often nderstood. ‘To prevent that, to are not old enough or wise enough to help innocence to understand itself 0 thelr own way. ‘That is simply a sanely, to stop fooliahness—that ix reverence of which Jf you have not the time to devote to the making of these new decorative articles: can purchawe them. is featuring beads, of cord with sealing wax pen- dants, and pretty vases, that [ think he rin any particular fo And it is His desire that every There is a faith crowded prec wants you, the niion and Hie living thing (that is 1 part Of Him. find great peace and contentment my faith that tine und that we may nto the sunshin learn some- to give Mary Blair the last Many a one who would gain, ob, so much, if he would but stop, look and and a faith that f endures for in the world e hard shell of looking after me; I know that. 5 ought to find out ‘where I go and why I go there. Fortunately my reasons 4 and motives for what I do are per- a oy fectly sound. a kaow what it is all wbout, either.” “Maybe it is to adore dogs?’ sested Mr. Jarr, sound. But supposing they covyrigit, 1001. by the ['veas Fubliduing Co, weren't? I'm an adult, but quite a tie Ti te Boies Gone young adult, and sometimes I might iealoiecigdbahicngs! be sincerely in need of the admin- 66 HATS this new animal church Mrs. Stryver has istrations of a mother; but mother for some reason or other is not among those present at time of writing. She been telling me about; isn’t attending to her business of was it in the papers?" asked Mrs. * mothering.” mares “The modern mother isn't, in too many Instances,” insisted Miss Kel- it,” replied Mr. Jarr, “but I don't re- member exactly what it waa” seem nice,” mused Mrs. Jarr. USTRALIAN business men have formed acompany to} i; seems to me ~ Mr. Jarr begun. develop an air mail and “Their ing landing sites about 300 miles apart. ‘A simple form of radio telag- raphy, which operates whistes tn new. A lot of men are pigs"——— “Yes, and a lot are pigmies,” Mr. is nothing new about animai wor- locomotive cabs, is iheing used for signalling \o engineers op some French railroads. Japan is planning to link two islands with a railroad tunnel ef which 4,000 feet will be un- der the ocean. and cats, and the Alaska Indians’ the prehistorie pagani is modern, and Mre, Stryver ) interested ip it, althougs she Z ag men and women and ch all etnbrac- GOING THE ROUNDS AGAIN. HIS letter was actually found fox Ll. “A CARDELL And Mother Karthi,” yet they do not find r They are louking what Cowper foot upon a worm, save in the way of kindness’, bother with Jarr shanply You see the women hugging their pekes and poms on the streets—do you think they are form ing @ church to adore them in?" “Well, if that's what it is I do not think I care to join!" said Mrs. Jary. like poms or pekes or any other kind of dogs.” “Oh, come to think of it, J remem- remarked Mr jan't @ church, it's just a new preven tion of cruelty to animals are plenty 0! suid Mra, Jar, “But this new movement carries the Mr. Jarr explained. adp its appear it iy going the rounds kroaches and all those dread- “I think I did see something about She wouldn't want to ful creatures! “I hope they are not going to start to insects should be: RANDOM FACTS. worshipping animals, that doesn't e great comiort tha philanthropists, slie wants you t “A lot of women worship animals, being kind to ail a mated nature at this time of year. What's the time of year gov to d who had nevey be air mail husbands?” interrupated passenger route to England, hav- 2 wire, Jur. “Well, that is nothing 10 days and my thing further," remember now aries about it, and one of the speak ers suggested kindness to all ani Jarre came back quickly. “But there how one can be kind to fleas untuts one catches them first. why, the little dears! away und hide every time one tries to everything of ship. It was a prehistoric pagan They are so practice. Snakes were worshipped “Why should you join at “Never mind the Alaska Indians or interjected Mrs. Jarr, “This new gnimad chureh never heard of ach Mrw. Javr declared. yaere Frat ne ot of nike pepple interested in it, col®balties and others one would find that's why,” replied Mra, L hope they won’) Joring tneir pet in- eools with chemi” “I think that would 1 bundel in the box. on these are fs ALY, tao mtriniy wines Ab be ~~ that's the i iy be i tata ae afraid of every creeping believed the muat ludierous MONDAY,, MARCH 21, 1921 - hildren Have Seven Age Just the Same as Adt | SOME JOB FOR PARENTS AS GU Emma Lyman Cabot Says Father and Mo Must Always Be Younger Than Youngest: Child. to. Rear: Youngsters: Properly Copyright, 1921, by the Pees Publishing Oo. (The New York Brening Worl.) OW can parents recognize and understand the swift changes, Dendulum motions in children’s lives? ‘ How should the imaginative child te handled? ‘What effect has teasing om the child and. how should it be And so on ad’ infinitum All the peychologten! questions that arise in , the development of a child from the time it comes into this reetiess world until it. becomes of age have been carefully gone into by Emma Lyman Cabot in her latest book, “Seven Ages of Childhood.” publiahed’ by Houghton, Mifflig Company, Shehas written this book so that others may share with her what she learned from her atudy of children. ‘This peried, from birth, to coming of age, bas been divided into seven overlapping periods, namely: 1. Babyhood, or the Depondeat Age. 2. The Dramatic Aga. 3. The Anguivr Age. 4 The Para oxical Age. 6 The Age «2 the Gang. 6. The Age of Romance. 1. The Age of Problems. “To guide the obildren through these ages, the parents must be ver eatile beings; must always be younger than the youngest alild,” writes Mise Cabot. And this ia her explanation of how to stay young with them: “Youth Is the pov or to enter more wayty, more enorgettcally and mors swuifleantly into the life of your children than they thenaelves, It is to follow them or rathe: to leap be- fore them op their path. There ate fatbera who are only fathe-s of the doy of ten. They atare blanity at the baby of two and are irritated by the The Problew of Walking, fad of vighteen. ‘They bave not Youth enough in themselves to com brehend more than a single age. There are skilful and tender moth- ers of infants utterly bewildered by girls of fifteen or by tousled boys of eight. Yet 1 bave known a father who was younger by far than any of his children. [ have seen him gay with the Dramatic Age, patient with the Angular Age, tender with the Paradoxical Age, intensely ab- sorbed in the Age of Romance, bold- ing out a quick and steadying hand b falters over its problems. When I think of him I cannot doubt that parents may ex- cel St. Paul. St. Pau) learned to be all things to all men, but parents have to be all things to all ages--a more intimate and soul-atretching task, since children change more un- expectedly than men.” Since they are so baffling in their chan, parents should study the different aspects of child life, be cause with the possible exception of the uncharacteristic @hild, children are more or less like one another at special periods in their lives, Life is guiding them through in the ag channels marked out by the s the way the author aptly pute ity and “only when we both the commun problems and the unique re sponse of any gbild, can we assist him wisely.” M ‘ia hus written “Seven J Children” for the dene ft of “parents who 4 con sulting psychologist who in helped by the perspective of distance more clearly,” and hay psinstakingty collected studies of ehildhvod and un notations of well known payenc gists who huve expenmented ow their own children The first, or “Phe Depenvenr herring: and fa y ! eo unspoken t HTiwme t a rly mene) ng of the 1 Duvfag Ge year, wrath and jeulou have to ve contended with tollo Be * il 4 ip We ‘Tho Parents Must Always 4 Younger Than the CBild. ‘Through the virtues of @nd courage: these are met child becomes ambitious to be ag Big” boy or gir Thus “The ndant Ase" graduates into “The Dra Age.” Pps Thie second peribd, tram ; three yeaus to seven, is the a@eud childhood, the age of imag ‘If our generation would but take path this imaginative age, ¢ mation would fose ita d Glares the author. “But imagi must be tempered. It ahould Oe wi with reoponsibility.” The creative and ata js a trying age. It is the age of4 ing and fighting. It tests sg How Je teasing best ‘ are the different opiwions jf mothers: Who is right? 7 au) 1, Hold off rather than: *< | ing. . 4 2. Not to allow easing af 4 “f From eleven to fourteen ar Paradoxical years, It is at this that parents @o often take of treating their aoe “Between the ages of 12 to a child stands on the t maturity, he ghould be excessive kindness ahd ing, for to my mind that est age in one's life” was ¢ of Miss Cabot's puplis suaumed reflections of this period of her “The Age of the Gang,” from. to tifteen, is the age when the you “find their individuality membership.” In experience § 4 spiritual law, — Cabot writes: “We are not o powerful in outward action, people accept us as. rep: but we are clearer, firmer cause we know ourselves a5 part of what is greater th selves,” From club life or gang life thea dividual emerges again. This, is SRbe Age of Romance.” Girls besa: om scious of dress and manners, of themselves but of their This is a source of irritation fainily and requires humor Part of the parents It ts . age of tinst love.” and it needs cam guidance to shape these “early es” into lasting benefit, to mould hare acters of helpfulness and that they may be able to ha taaks that confront the youth teen to twenty-on: This ix classified as "The Agmeot Problenws.” It is & period of struy discontent, a time of choice jection, and 1s aguociated with and calls from the surrounding the claims of work and ‘This “Age of Problems” is itself @gpe birt Such are the Seven Ages of hood,” sums up the author, “But i age of childhood and. youth dees Ret | pass once and forever. It retumns | tiirks Become Conscious of and Manners, i sone, Ge the audit. » West ling! (@ tom vky with dh transitory ind gold. Ror ents push an advance gil for th hildven. ‘They go @ ever tre coming path anticipating dangers: “hey. Ive Rews.of tie il hopes and battles that tee if and of the cause while unites meee erens, aemine: