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sans Goodby, “mother’s gir E™ the sheltered female! nessamthropic work. ‘This commander in chief of a legion of American girls Is perhaps the first of the conservatives to recognize that over the old problem of “why girls eave home” has been written a new ,.0ne: "Girls HAVE left home—and : are we gving to do about it?” NO 7" She sees the girl of to-day flouting down the broad stream of the world’s vactivities like a fluffy, self-confident ‘Aittle duckling while “mother” stands On the bank clucking as frenziedly— “Gnd uselessly—as uny mother hen! And isn’t that a truly accurate, unex- aggerated metaphor, summing up most of the mother-and-daughter di- lemmas of to-day? “Seventy-five years ago a woman was the exception in a business office, or in industry,” declares Mrs. Speer. “To-day if women were withdrawn «from these activities they would stop. “Last full the doors of political life and responsibility were opened with he others. There are boundless op- ““$ortunities, but the resources with ‘s-Which to meet them are in too many sdnstances lacking. God has provided uth with courage, energy and faith, ut He also meant this vigor to be tempered by the kindly wisdom of maturity gnd expenience, +oo* “Obviously, if in one district of Chi- cago alone there are 50,000 girls in in- dustry, all of them out of their homes . all day, and many living away from home, these girls cannot share such +-Yiisdom oa their mothers have to of- fer. “They have been taken out of School and home by economic neces- sity, but they are none the less the guardians of the future, potential mothers, actual citizens. They have left the natural schooling of the “home; their teachers now are the fac- ‘ery, the movie, the shop window.’ ‘What are these girls learning from their new instructors? They learn one vatuable lesson in the factory, it eeems to me; a lesson which has ‘been phrased, “He that will not work, neither shall he eat" Sometimes, being myself a bit of an optimist about the modern daughter, I wonder if this propaganda against parasit- ism, this self-respecting satisfaction of the girl worker in real money ‘earned by real toil, does not counter- some of the instruction con- veyed to her by the movies and the shop windows; namely, that hor whole duty is to wear the fuffest and most expensive clothes! Yester- day’s daughter, often learned THAT nruch, despite the tutoring of home and mother—and yesterday's daugh- ter DIDN'T learn that the economi- .gally honest wearer of pretty frocks must work for them. “What is happening with these ris in one city,” continues Mrs. r in the Association Monthly, “is happening to groups of varying Self-Confident Modern Girl | Like Duckling in Stream— Mother, Hen on Bank __ They Need Expert “Proxy’’ Mothers, Suggests Mrs. Robert E. Speer. Must Counteract Influence of Movies and Shop Win- “\ dows Which Teach How to Wear Pretty and ore Expensive Clothes but Not How to Honestly Earn Them. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Coprright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Krening World.) Meet the modern daughter—who is neither of these! woe In the case of the girl of to-day vs. Mrs. Grundy, there have been no “more amazingly frank admiasions—considering the source from which they .apring—than those which I have summed up above in my own words, but which in substance have just been advanced by Mrs. Robert E. Speer, President of the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. wife of the Presi- Gent of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, mother et four children, and a recognized leader in New York's social and phil- side the home, the standards of home living cannot be transmitted by the usual and natural methods of obser- vation and imitation.” If, because they are not at home, girls cannot be “mothered" as they used to be, what is the answer? “New occasions teach new duties time makes ancient good uncouth, Tennyson reminded us. “Women have to find out new ways of doing all their duties,” Mrs. Speer phrases the same sentiment. “One of the reasons for the frequency of ner- vous disorders to-day is that the repetitious way of living is gone.” And for mothering by direct action —the old-fashioned kind—Mrs. Speer suggests a substitute: mothering by proxy. The proxy, she believes, may be held by the “girl expert,” ropre- sentative of “a new science, as ox- acting, as necessary, as honorable, as the old professions of law, medicine and religion.” This is the day of the expert; we are coming to depend on him inevery —almost ‘every —emergency. Why shouldn't we depend on an expert who ie a “her,” a woman leader of girls, working through the “Y" and other helpful agencies to make the daring daughter of to-day into “the kind that mother used to make?” At least, the idea strikes a new and constructive note in the chorus of lamentations over “those dreadful young things!” THE EV ENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1921," ea tii Vin. NWyee ore WE DIDN'T KNOW You SOQUED SHIMMY LOOt_AT AUNTIE DOING THE SHIMMY! yay ney ve Fer SLE Ter tags! Mss t OV Wee iS Wen tage ot flee ha Uw nn none ers 11! Trade Bad Habits for Good In Eating if You'd Reduce | Weight Satisfactorily | Miss Doscher Tells What Some of the Bad Habits Are and How You Can Overcome Them. By Doris HEN your whole being is stirred by the etraing of the violin played by a master hand you marvel at his wonderful feeling, his per- fect technique and his ability to interpret the mas- ter, You say he {fs a genius, Did you ever stop to think that his latent talent would have re- mained unknown to the world for- ever if it had not been for years of untiring effort in which he studied and practised many hours each day? In other words, he acquired the practising habit. It ts utterly impossible for you to have your body in tune unless you acquire certain good habits to tone it up. It ix very surprising when you look over the different races of the world and see how each race has tormed certain its in the selection of its foods. Of course, Unewe habits are to a certain extent governed b their geographical position. A rac living in @ cold, rugged country re- quires an entirely different diet from one dwelling in the hot belt. It is proverbial that the effort of a man who has been a heavy smoker all his life is a very hard bs himself When he tries to bre habit, When you start to redu are face to face with lifelong t that are ax difficult for you to over- come, and the only way to make this easy is by acquiring a yood eating habit to take its place, and when I way a good eating habit L mean for you to intelligently consider, firat, the place in which you live, whether it be in a cold or a warm climate, Sec- ond, the kind of work you do, whether it be muscular or mental Another | se Utes Pr Cn thing to consider is: a growing ‘child requires a different diet from a fully matured person. More and more We are coming to learn that our health and beauty de- pend on our hwbits of mode of exercise more tha other factor. So it should be with great rejoicing that you start to ac- quire the proper food habit, A start is always easy, but when you have many pounds to reduce you soon be- come discouraged when you find you can not follow out with grace and precision the exercises given and you will falter when you have to pass by foods that your palate has become ac- | DIDN'T KNOW iT MYSELF TILL | SAT ON AN ANT HILL NS Ader tyeyy BS teen years of age, 5 fect weigh 112 pounds. thin, but | have very ips, which tam ai 2 inch My body stout legs trakes me look ridiculous tell me how | could reduce them. 3 re = o For your age and height you have the correct weight, but your weight ig not evenly distributed and you will have to pay strict attention to the exercises that were given in this col- umn for the leg movement and leg circling, and also the trunk bending and trunk circling Doscher. Copyright, 1921, by the Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) customed to. Don't give up, Nothing easy is worth while, After you have learned to thoroughly masticate your food you will find that your appetite is more quickly appeased than your eyesight. Proper mastication of your food is the first good habit you must form. Another habit is to eliminate from your diet auch fat forming foods as you are overfond of and as are not . really necesary to your well being. © While I am on the subject of habit, I want to say that it ie just as easy to acquire the habit of eating slowly simple, nourishing foods as it ie to overburden your eystem with a large assortment of highly spiced, fat form- ing concoctions, which digest in the mind and do the stomach no good, but bind you more securely to your fat forming habit in the aelection of diet Some of the bad habits to which you can attribute your overweight are: Too much sleep, eating between meals, taking a drink with every mouthful of food, choosing an unbal- ar 1 det and, perhaps the most dif- ficult of all to break, the habit¥of not arising from the table until you have more than satisfied a normal hunger. T believe In a set hour for meals, but I do not believe in eating unless you are really hungry. T have said so much to you to-day on the subject of habit because T am more anxious for you to gain through the reduction course in this column the proper eating habit that will keep your welght under control through life than Lam for you to ac- complish the feat of losing many pounds ina short time, because T know this habit, well grounded in your mind, will make you attain the beauty of form you desire and help ou to maintain it through life, Beauty can not be attained by fat forming habits, but can be achieved only through proper diet and exercise. ry REDUCING MENU. BREAKFAST. A omall dish of raspber Two bran muffins, 1 glass of skimmed milk. LUNCHEON. A salad with vegetables and green peppers with a non-oil 9: A dish of junket. Two pieces of zwieback. DINNER. Cold tongue with tomate sauce. A dish of kale. One slice whole wheat bread. One amall dish of custard. Answers to Readers’ Questions health, you will have to learn to do as much of your work as possible in the early morning hours so as to make time to be out of doors. Breathing exercises will not take up much of your time and they will be very ben- eficial for the condition you have mentioned. You also will have to be careful of your diet and you will find bathing such parts as you wiah to reduce with warm water followed by cold water to which a few drops of alum or bengoin have been added will have a tendency to make the flesh firm. Watch this column for the sug- ne nn eee ee Se ee + en ie kestions I will make later, on how to correct weight fora do your housework in such manner 5 fi 5 that you can improve your figure at the same time, “size in every city and town in Amer- tea, The great mass of American sirls no longer are in their homes, they are at work, facing conditions What a The Jarr Family Innocent Bystanders ’ ‘ By Roy L. McCardell 4 inches? rool which their mothers are ignorant, By Neal R. O’Hara 4 eee fifteen who in 6 Kindly advise me if there is qniyiin new demands on thelr Bed pec eee © snehes has posalbly grown her full any way to reduce enlarged fore- ; eg Larter een n5 pad os ; Coprrigat, 1921, ty The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World.) onyeneicreonere Copyright, 1021, by the Preae Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Night, You are a little tall for your arms he muscles have become | Ten reece must be interpreted afroah pew bystanding is one of our five leading industries. H alf the world speeds round in \WVG ER fe NG ny Sat GORY AD eL te you eared teen! eave! apaLyaw) en VEO naasiea ih Ricisted | from <tiisingas beneficial ro these rts, The mother, who can flivvers. That’s the half that can’t understand how the oth er half lives. Other half's me tee coe: eat "He has no right to be happy, to be eae 112 pounds would possibly be for enlarged forearms is to clinch the } project r : i ' ? at Is e matter?” with « woman. He should suffer; [ Cot sts as Light as possible and thi ‘world with wide sympathy is rare composed of innocent bystanders. Innocent bystander is the guy that gets six months in as Mrs. Kittingly caine in weeping. suffer; “my whole ‘life has been ©P0Us0 revolve them. slowly at the wrists | hat is the result of the girl the hospital. Guilty fli 3 blighted. H 1d have liked irl of 21 and until they ache, "This will be very Gisak {tream and the mother @ hospital. Guilty fliv chauffeur gets $25 fine, with war tax off for cash. “Dont seks I can't bear tol think Bugited: How woull you paye 1 am a young girl SU 4 Kuoeia , Wy | edy hen oder ra “Shrewdly but & u of it!” said Mra, Kittingly in a broken it | have two children to care for tiresome at first, but after a few When a bomb backtires, g . Faypeeoel Mrs. Jarr had to admit that ahe we housework, | do not days It can be done with ease. This ‘sympathetically Mrs. Speer sums it an innocent bystander gets make an honest dollar. Money doesn't grow on bushes. voice. wouldn't have liked it, but suggested Besides my houssvors, | le ney exercise will reduce the auperfuour hit, When a bullet runs amuck, ambulance collects an Doesn't even grow at the top of greased poles any more. Thereby Mrs. Jarr knew Mrs. Kit- that Mrs. Kittingly ahould have con- play tennis or golf, but | do fat, but you will have to refrain from ore We (HID Of tne aesror the race, ‘Bocent bystander. When nothing happens, innocent Guy that wants the root of evil has got to dig for it. tingly was to be questioned and was fronted the wretch and protested want tycaduon api RAYE gneet: Net cece one wire toes “pe oF the, pew gralmost unrestricted bystander gets pinched for loafing. But digging is manual labor. And un innocent by- Ying to tell the cause of her wor. thers with a gentieman myself who — SIVely, large, busta, mee ¥ {| ‘wv@pportunity; we have let her go out you see the innocent bystander everywhere, Hang- stander may be down, but he never digs “My dear Clara, I know you will hates scenes?” asked Mrs, Kittingly, S2g0ee) F.D. 1 am beginning your reducin | ny into uncharted seas, and then We is ahs - nerfs s ties think 1 am a big fool, and 1 know I weeping afresh. y. letting the care of the chil- course and would like to know i' 4a 'do not like her choices we are quick {ng on subway straps, headlining on tax lists, pushing Ponzi proved that the way of the transgressor 18 11. to, but I've just cried all night “Ah, this is a hard world on gren and the house keep you too &y of those exercises will re- fo offer harsh Judrment, instead of in bread lines. When taxes go up, he's the coat. When Pretty soft, but the innocent bystander is never dis- about iti” aid Mrs. Kittingly. women! #aid Mrs, Jarr, ina com- juch indoors If you wish to tm- duce the flesh under my shoulder a SymPaoclety more need fresh esti- stocks come down, he’s the lamb. Innocent bystanders honest. Ponzi no longer has the freedom of the city, “About what?” asked Mrs. Jarr, TUNE tone prove _besn yer Aaure “sad Iam twenty-seven years, olde 6 eomates, discerning, fearless and full are we, the people. which is always necessary for an I. B. No, the innocent “My husband, the villain, the mee aig Sra Sepsis feet 2 inch i e in heigh: ® 146 pounde-—H. More one weigh For your age and height you shoula th, than im its judgment of its é mys “ r of fs By thee Congressmen are our paid employees. We don't know >¥Stander never steals. He never even begs or bor- wretch!” snapped Mrs. Kittingly, % “We have not taught, probably be- what they're paid, but whatever it is, it's too much, A TOWS except in the order named. He may borrow and SAVwosing out another tear in pd, that self- ¥ . “Whicl si Kec 3. Jur couse we haveine first step toward Congressran is a set of whiskers that bows to the will fFset to give it back, but you always know Just where NTI ee concen lanai Sect we nave recognized, some- of the people and then flirts with the anti-pleasure YOU CaM find him so long as the curbstones aren't j{10)1 frual™ Mant oo Sou cate Holidays are wash days for the innocent bystander's Cy @: weigh 121 pounds, You will find no axIms or a 0 ern al trouble in losing your 20 pounds if you follow carefully the diet sugges - him? He's bof your lite : Marshall ions and exercises in this column. boys, knowing ‘ Passed out of your By Marguerite Mooers Mars i te Arnal the Best ears Tome to go lobby, Congressman sends us seeds in the spring and Temoved. You've always said you hated him.” y 9 Tisieh tor aspen exercise, that will out into the temptations and high Speeches in season. Speeches, if planted, would grow a 7 Meant Suys miss a lot of work, but they catch hut ata hay Aine y_doarine Geer will greatly help you in reducing the “winda of the world; but we cling to all the circus parades. Experience teaches us we can't |} Mrs. Kittingly apitetully : flesh under th ould Te ltiacy that our piri are at home, Tow of waste baskets. er eee Rar ape jee ag Srercear ae HEUY WOU you want to see a man Yes, Doris, women are vain creatures, but no woman "**h_under_the shoulder blades, a eltered, inheriting by daily . 88e8 you hated enjoying himself withou! ry x if = safe, sreiino best standards of the work, What's the use of tolling when income tax in- YoU any more than you would want ever believes that some sweet young thing will ¢ days. er Me Geomen are to be occupied out |WHAT 22 You went voxd Know jp QUESTIONS. a 4, What, besides sugar, is one of ~euba's two, chief products? cap, What is an inclosure for exercis- 4 res called? aang he what Asiatic country is the i Delhi located? wily of Deny wages of Man” did * Shakespeare describe? b. Against what historically famous invaders did. Saladin defend Acre, Syria, in the twelfth century? %. What is the second largest city in Russia? 7. What is the color of alabaster? B) What Hanoverian cavalry officer famous through his fabulous fories of adventure? me 9 What State “the “Keystone Sta ws 40, What is the illustration which ) gafiioes the front page of a book called? ae ANSWERS. 1, tobacco; 2 paddock; 3, India; 6, Crusaders; 6, Moscow; popularly called 2 T White; 8 Baron Munchauscn; 9, } yivania; 10, frontispiece, i { \ ee ee wife. While I. B. lurks on a curbstone waiting to get shot, wife is home darning his sox and damning her luck. Husband's so busy going out on strike he never has time to come home. Wife saves what she can and spends the rest on public library fines, educating the children. Wishes husband was a bootlegger so his work would be steady. Life's a tough racket for the innocent bystander. Even the guys that work in the mint have to work hard to sects are waiting to sting your bank roll? Better, rather, to loaf while the world loafs with you than work and do it alone. Innocent bystanding is no longer a by-product, It's one of the Nation's leading industries. That's authentic. There isn't much money in it, but neither is there in working by the day when the surtax grabs wha income tax leaves. senseless, but that's just what we want to prove. the We admit that that seems rather ¢ | Courtship and Marriage E6T\ EAR Miss Vincent: Three years ago | met a girl during my vacation an a farm. For a time | corresponded with her regularly, as | lived in Pennsylvania and she in New with her regularly, ab | lived in this city, and although | have written her four times have re- coived no answer. What can be the reason? PUZZLED. Probably the young woman has changed her address. About the best thing for you to do is to call at the old address and try to look her up through neighbors, trace her this way go tp the post- old address and probably be able you her forwarding address. “Dear Miss Vincent—Have r your advice to others and now wish to have your aid, eighteen and was very fond of a young man of twent! both came from Eng! country but down South If you cannot nearest the eight months. He is coming to New York to He wrote he was going to bring me a present, to him and told him | would be him but | would not By Betty Vincent | accept the present, because | was not certain | cared enough about him, Since then | have not heard from him. | really want to him, 80 what shall | do? “UNCERTAIN.” You were most unkind to tell him you were not certain that you cared enough about him to accept a sift. From a conventional point of view you were right, but since you old friends and both from England it would have been more tactful for you to have written him a cordial letter not mentioning the present at all, Now, the thing for you to do is to write him and tell him how much you are looking forward to his visit. are a ntrenennlis. = = ee ne tee nn a Sie ER a to see @ man you loved having a good time with sume one else!’ He was ut a roud house!" Mrs tingly went on. “Actually flaunt ing himself at a road house where L was with a friend. He, my second husband, with 4 woman—I won't call her a lady—spending his money like @ millionaire. He always was a spender even when he took ine any- where. I could have killed him!" t wus his money,” said Mrs. Jarr 8 I understand it, he sends you your alimony—a stated sum—every week, and you can do what you like with that and he can do what he likes with the balance of his income.” “That may be so," said Mrs, Kit- tingly, "but to be flaunting at a road- house’ with another woman, to be grinning and smirking and paying her attentions—it wasn't, well, It wasn’t respectable “It must have been dreadfully an- noying, of course,” said Mra. Jarr, “put you were there enjoying your- self too.” “How could I enjoy myself when T saw him enjoying himi * asked Mrs, Kittingly. ‘Put yoursclf in my place!” Mrs. Jarr was struck with the force of this remark, but said: “Well, he didn't seem to be put out that you were out motoring to a roadhouse too, did he?" “He didn't see me,” said Mrs, Kit- tingly. "He had eyes for nothing but the creature he was with! Haven't I always told you he was a wretch?” love her for herself alone when she is fat and bald and fifty. NE thing to be said in favor of bobbed locks is that they eliminate O the danger of that long goldcn hair on the coat sleeve, for which even the most adroit never found a wholly plausible explanation When a man quotes Oscar Wilde's famous epigram, “Good women bore one; bad women bother one,” and his companion asks, innocently, “Which do I do?” there is but ONE complimentary answer, however virtuous she may be. he only person who has no right to serve an injunction on the female wearer of summer furs is the male who clings, on Our most caloric days, to his vest and his “bard” collar. No woman ever feels a8 magnanimous as when she has just forgiven a@ man for a quarrel which she herself forced upon him. If any man wants to earn the eternal gratitude of all womankind he will invent (1) @ non-skid silk stocking; (2) an anti-shine nose; (3) a bathing cap that keeps the hair dry. In the next big fight why not use @ referee from the divorce courts? He is accustomed to watching for foul blows and has counted many a knockout kovery man is perfectly sure that he could solve the servant problem if he ever turned On it his gigantic intellect, Yet he will tell you himself that there doeen’t exist such a thing as a competent stenographer or a reliable office boy, ‘The woman who marries a man to reform him can count on a life job, Add compensations of brunettes: They tan so much more becomingly than do blond What Would You Have Done? ae > ARAH REDDEN'S mother was desperately ill and her father Was in lumber camp in thr mountains. He could only be reached by letter, a8 no telephone or telegraph lines ran to the place, It was nearly midnight when Sarah sealed the let ter in which she urged her father to return home as quickly as possible. She searched for a postage stamp and soon discovered there was none in the house. No Post Office was open at that time of night and the letter had to be in the 1 o'clock collection, Sud- denly she remembered that on a let- ter she had received that morning the stamp had not been cancelled. If she could remove it and paste it on her tter it could be posted in time, She found the old letter and looked at the stamp for a long time. It would be so easy, but she knew that she was thinking of committing an act that the Government would call a crime, What would you have done? 1, Used the stamp and run the rist of detection? 2. Refused to use the some and fatled to mail the important = timet _ tS gsm” wearer ‘ ae ee ee