Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-12 | Page 7 | Spooning Statistics

y h k Spooning Statistics I li SE who have have been beell shocked by the v t 1 spooning and m mooning of the modern flapper lapper will find interesting information in the report j T of a ra recent survey conducted by the i 3 Bureau reau of Social Hygiene Inc This atlon tion recently directed a series of intimate questions to 1000 women The subjects were chosen with the view vie of reaching only normal ornen eliminating as much as possible the 1 trenie type of individual whose experiences cE tild ld by y no means be re regarded as 3 a r For Por this reason the women were all successfully suc suc- suc- suc fully married and a preponderance of them received college educations Of this 41 per cent declared they iney had not prior to marriage Thirty-seven Thirty p per per r cent adr admitted spooning while 22 per percept percept declared 4 they hey had spooned only with their fi fiances Th These se l Jt replies represent an age 10 me tnie tamers latners and anu mothers of or today are inclined to point as a model for the guidance pf if if their c children ildren Times have changed but we have no definite definite nite ite way of determining what percentages i prevail in in the spooning world of today Sometimes it would seem seem U the e general Average x rage is higher even we might ct that the practise is almost uni universal ersal nm among mong ng the younger sets No doubt the pet ting fing party parly is just the spooning party of old bid in a different setting If the replies of these girls of yesterday to be are tire regarded as asa asa a a general indication s spooning has no 10 ma effect on their married life While more t than half of f then admit spooning g in their younger days days of the 1000 declare their married life has been happy It would seem therefore that the practises which worry mothers of today prevailed years and years ago without ago blighting the mature happiness of the victims t S j I