Show GH APERONES NES OR FOR MAIDENS jeanne tilda talks Bre effly a and nd incisively ci about them A DEAR BEAR OLD SOUL AND A GRASS WIDOW A A pincky y girt who went abroad with so no other guard than her sister daughters should have tl take 6 caro car enough to S sebo anso of Them themselves seles cliame nes not wanted by american cirlo atria oh but bat we must have a chaperones chape ronel you hear tho the girls saying a ying A chaperone chap trone Inde indeed eill and for an american girl it does docs amuso me immensely to hear that word on oil lips it Is funny as they say to notice how bow words become flomo the fashion and how ow folks win will ring them in on oil all impossible and inappropriate occasions and how absurd certain words do sound on the lips of certain people especially when they get off novel pronunciations of their own for or example today T od I 1 overheard three young school teachers engaged in an all animated discussion upon the mailer of forming a french ffrench class but before wo we go further thing thine to say said one and she hesitated pitiably and blushed to tho the roots of her hair ali ah thought 1 I ive been there tind and can sympathize she has bits not the money and wishes gently to break tho the news that site sho must back out someone smiled sho she took look courage and continued mother Is going to study french and would woul diko ika to join our class the awful truth was was oat and she felt I 1 bettor better much better when tv hen miss teacher teach or the second exclaimed in tones ot of pure delight bow hatful it will bo be so nice to have a a oh malum mammal III oh ohl now this i is s whore where the ridiculous part comes in A girl can call attend a public school till she Is 13 10 sho she can take in parties and theatrical herfor performances mances all winter to such an extent that she trembles at the thought of graduation and then suddenly when she goes 0 out ut in tho the world to support herself she must have a matron to superintend her pleasures even her higher accod accomplishments pa shine n ts AX AN GIRL now I 1 look at it in an antl entirely rely different light to bo be sure ini im too thoroughly y american to go aping the english aristocracy to cracy but that aside aldo and taking the subject from a common sense standpoint it does seem that girls who have the self reliance to pilot their way in a moneymaking money making atmosphere for six hours or more inore a day ought to bo be able to select safe to companions and to rely upon their own judgment as to amusements and deportment I 1 have the greatest greate st respect for a girl uch such as I 1 know who worked hard tor for the past two years saved her money and enjoyed it traveling abroad last summer in no other company than th that of her alster but a few years older thin than herself but not tile the accepted way for while these young ladles ladies were gloriously paddling their own canoe all over france germany and switzerland a batch of schoolmarms of doubtful years but still laying claim to youth and charms were toting around an old woman no further from homo home than the delaware water gap but she was a dear old soul I 1 heard one say Is a little drat deaf and a trifle nearsighted near sighted sho retired early and rose late and know no more what wo we were about than if she was wa in the place where we hired her I 1 was going to say arid and that is about a summary of the american chaperones chap crones duties she must be deaf dumb and blind and must invariably smile upon her prote gees escapades she must sanction every risky bit of business by her presence and then retire for a doze there are younger eb chaperones chape aperones yes I 1 alas they area are a tripe stripe more worthless i than tho the grandmas grandeas grand mas A 4 CHIC LITTLE WOMAS WOMAN I 1 recall a certain mrs nellie N mark you mrs nellie not mrs john or 1 mrs alti james jaines the mr tom dick or harry daiy had betak betoken betaken cri himself to foreign parts leaving learing behind a wife aged io 19 and a iby of 2 11 slie she Is about as chic a little woman as you would meet in a day days 3 walk she is very small very airy very coquettish very pretty and very loud and she and the little one ona allow grandpa to put up tor for numerous hats gowns jewels etc with the sweetest composure just as though Main mamma maNoll nell had nat run away from tho the convent and eloped when io 16 stud and this Is another chaperone this little lady undertook to maintain tho the dignity of a crowd of her single friends down at atlantic city the girls were all about of an age all giddy gidd y butterflies of fashion unacquainted with the word restraint and had mrs nell bad even the slightest conception of tho the responsibility she was assuming she bile would have gore gone way gray in a night but no she care to have a notion A girl who has been a wife mother and grass widow by 19 and is still vivacious is not troubling herself to hinder a risky flirtation indeed it was no rare thing to see this grando grande dame surrounded by men tossing her pretty load head and throwing a wonderful expressiveness si veness into her big brown eyes sho she could chow chew gurn gum by contract bo be firsthand fir first stand and foremost in all the larks and yet oh hats correct ashes married and lowi now do toll tell what is to be expected of the crowd when th the is a rattlebrain rattle brain now here Is just the point I 1 want to make inake how does the presence of a married woman the standard of any set eft if she bo young she Is too oo 00 much in sympathy with the weakness of her charges it if she ile be old she Is too severe or what la is worse too designing to make matters pleasant now I 1 believe in the e parents being around to know what Is going goin g on and all that but at the same time if a daughter has not sense enough or discretion enough to take care cara of herself in polite society she should bo be kept away from society altogether OLD wosten AST AND RASH GIRLS really and sincerely these chaperone advocates I 1 believe rebel in secret against the eternal presence of an old woman and after all what good does she he do A rash girl will be rash all the same you may squelch her temporarily but tho the latent force only gathers strength for the next outburst and I 1 believe it Is so all the war through to be sure burp those delicate buds among the upper ton may not bo be curs cursed edwith with natures like us ordinary people they are the offspring of fashion born in servitude so to speak unacquainted with tile the exultant independence of their clevelan cle belan si steril they may perhaps bow their heads meekly to the yoke and smile in their martyrdom especially over there whore where its english you know where there hero Is an aristocracy ol of something else than our gold even though it op bo not quite so pure where cu custom stain lias haas become bacomo a hied fixed law there doubtless it Is all right but here in the united states where our freedom Is 13 our boast besst and where we are ara all plebeians plebe ians lans every everyone one what want we with chaperones chapo rones Ile sides the many impediments to enjoyment which the custom brings about it has the disadvantage of being borrowed come now flow girls do at least bo be original and if you mako make mistakes do let them bo be your own you cant transplant your delightful london to our new soil so you might as well rest content and follow in the p prescribed re ways of the republic the republic stands on a pretty sound hound moral foundation and you wont stray very far wrong if you respect her dictates if you are one of the select elect four fear hundred and havo have your name on tile tho first page of the bl blue tie hook book consider mo me silent you are then bound to adhere to th the 0 despotic regulations of your coterie but it if you are a plain everyday girl in mod crate circumstances do have the nervo nerve to have a i mind of your own dont t try ry to put on I 1 bugs and toady to foreign habits it if there is any co copying lYIng to bo be lone done let lei I 1 it t bo be done on the other side and last of all it if you are a self sup luli porting individual attempt to recognize your position and retrain refrain front from appearing idiotic dont overdress dont endeavor or to enter society which will look down upon your honest industry dont press on superior powers and above all things dont cry quarter to them by means of a chaperone cha JELYNE TILDA |