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Show A NEW MATINEE GIRL. Robert Edcson has new Ideas con-ccrning con-ccrning the matlneo girl, even as he has a well-grounded faith in the future of the Amerlcan hero and tho Amerl-can Amerl-can play. "The silly, sentimental matinee girl 1b merely a memory of the past," said he the other day. "That is, she Is so far as the 52 theaters are concerned. You may find a few of her surviving in the H cheaper houses, where stock companies t are maintained, but she has disappeared from the higher-priced houses. Two dol-lars dol-lars for a seat 1b calculated to discour-age discour-age sentiment." "But how about the daughter of the rich docs she let $2 stand In the way of sentiment?" "No, it Isn't a matter of money with her, and it isn't a matter of sentiment, j either." Mr. Edeson answered. "The modern young1 woman is quite a dlffer-ent dlffer-ent creature than her sentimental sister of yesterday. Not that she hasn't sen-tlment, sen-tlment, foe of course girls will always lie glrla, just as boys will always be boys. But she doesn't go around wear-Ing wear-Ing her heart on her her er well, Avhatever srie happens to be wearing at the time. She Is a healthy, sensible, B1 clear-minded young- woman, who goes to the theater as a man goes for cn-tertalnmenL cn-tertalnmenL And when the play Is over she goes home Instead of around to the stage door. "And do you know what has brought the new order of matlneo girl? Well, unless I miss my guess, It's fresh air and plenty of exercise. Fresh air and exei'dse will cure anything, from love to consumption, provided the disease hasn't reached tie Hopeless stase JXoyz- adays a girl, instead of brooding oer a sickly novel, gets out of doors, tramps, rides, shoots, plays golf, swims; In fact, gives you almost any kind of a good, exhilarating ex-hilarating game you may want, and tlie chances are beats you at It. If you go to see her on Sunday she doesn't want you to sit holding he.r hand in a dimly lighted corner. She's much more apt to rush you on." to a country club and lead you a lively dance over meadow and hill. Not that this sort nf girl hasn't a heart for she has. and when you win It provided you're lucky you're pretty sure to find it a good, true, healthy heart. Girls of that sort make the best wives and the best mothers." |