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I lID J SISTER I woman t From the Joan London Shoots Straight Shoulder f Just Like Dad at Critics of the Younger lounger d de r Generation Generation And And Sh She e Knows Whereof s a a V g j K She Speaks Having Only Recently Been a Flapper Herself I By Hannah Stein 7 9 E new ne woman of today is the kid sister sister suc suc- suc J 1 f- f cessor to the flapper f This is the belief of Joan L London Malamuth l the el elder ler daughter of Jack London She took up the discussion of i the he kid sister of the flapper along a line of reasoning her il illustrious father had created in her mind when she was wast t t a little girl He loathed weaklings he was impatient with th that t type of womanhood who fainted at the slightest provocation provo provo- cation She was the ignoble lily maid in his Martin Eden Like her father Joan London prefers her women strong and hearty Though slender herself she is muscular r art and full of vigor Again like her father f ther she approves of s women's independence and their resistance to dictum when fi the they ey are re still adolescents She and her and l er sister Bess were Trained trained to develop the brain and brawn brawn- intended intend d for the boys If the fates played him false by sending him tho those e of the female species instead Jack London remained remained re- re loyal to his potential sons sons sons' b by g giving ving their sisters the same same sam y bringing up My birth was one of the greatest great great- est at st disappointments father ever Ir f 7 y a s Y mii py i r 4 5 p y w Y SD p r r F 4 k db 2 w r SY i i ir r u i 4 R rY r 9 Y d v V 17 Joan London who voices her faith faith v in the oncoming generation of young girls t h had d to swallow Joan London said H He w was s all prepared to meet Jack r when some one announced that I was vas J born For two days he didn't Jr even een look at m me me He had no desire to get acquainted Then he must v v have felt sorry for me because it my fault at all He even might have anticipated my own desire desir to rough it like a real boy r. r when I grew up So after the sec sec- 5 p find pc c c day y he e came near nea the crib and looked down at the bund bundle e of blan- blan for th the first time v y Mother asked him What shall we call It He hadn't grown Interested In the newcomer newt new- new newcomer t comer to t that t extent lIe He said that as far faras t J as he was concerned it didn't matter So r Just as soon as mother was strong enough to rummage through his papers she r. r S searched for a possible suggestion Somewhere Some Some- C where in his desk she found the names i Joan and Eva father might have been i considering for hIs Ills characters If they were good d enough to use In his books she thought he might like them for his child Lq f 55 L S e Y j n t. t wy N a f i A wY y r r 4 j j tk HC I yS w N a aSHE SHE KNOWS KID WHAT SHE WANTS Y OUR kid kid sister successor sister successor to the has flapper flapper has r-has has poise and self-reliance self which are hers without the struggle girls had a f few w years back declared Joan London London Lon Lon- don whose famous father wanted her to toS tobe be a boy She knows exactly what she wants In romance she speaks for herself and makes her own decisions These kids are sensible well bal well bal youngsters who vho make a few mistakes because they haven't seen enough of life to know all its phases The trouble with this generation is parallel to the difficulties that arise in all I new new situations that situations that some go to extremes Marriage You bet the thc old-fashioned old r. r kind yes Companionate yes husbands and b wives vives real companions to ea each h other i iri lr v a 4 Yr M Mr r and mother Another chose Joan It pleased him very much and reconciled him to his child Twenty months later my poor father had to go through the same agony of disappointment disappointment disappointment dis dis- dis- dis appointment when my sister Bess came His prejudice her was even more intense His first and then his second child began life contrary to his wishes But just as soon as we were old enough to play with him he found us such delightfully delightfully delightfully delight delight- fully responsive companions that he said it didn't matter after all that we were only Joan and ss B and we had lots of fun together London Jack traIn trained his daughters to to develop Immunity to bumps and hard knocks ks Father used to say Now if u you cry when youre you're hurt you cant can't play with m mt me He He He couldn't stand crybabies loathed the weak specimen of womanhood even in her Infancy Well we did w want nt to play with him He knew ew how to get down to our level like a great big kid So Soto Soto Soto to prove to him that we we were made of real stuff we took so many k knocks without a whimper that w WP we actually developed resistance to physical pain For Instance we used to fight two against one to throw father down He was wa a strong t g man maa and he didn't make L 3 d S r rs s a 54 I ay SS e tY K The late Jack London author and adventurer whose works continue to be widely read read concessions to give us control The only way we could overpower him was by tickling tickling tickling tick tick- ling him until we forced him to the ground Then we kept kep him down by tickling him some more until we got him Into the best position for us to sit on him It wasn't easy by any means We usually had to go through a out long bat bat- tle Sometimes our clothes were ripped And we usually came out with enough casualties to make us look like good fighting soldiers Today Joan London looks back remorsefully remorsefully remorsefully remorse remorse- fully to the latter period in her fath fathers father's rs life when they saw each other only spasmodically spasmodically spas spasmodically spas spas- because of f a rift In the home At 15 the great companion of her childhood childhood childhood child child- hood was snatched away Only In the flesh and blood Their early association was such uch an Influence during her Impressionable Impressionable impressionable years she says that the the effects will remain with h her 1 the rest of her life For Instance he believed that the flappers who were ushered in just before he died were establishing an interesting era He was thrilled by the youngsters who burst forth out of the war hysteria and showed that women even the very young ones could be level But now that the flapper Is out and her kid sister Is In In the daughter ot of Jack London upholds the tradition t ey by y respecting the strength and and independence ence of these very young wise women I belonged to the flapper age she said Now the flappers arc are married At 20 I too was was a mother At present we have a a. new ew generation whom I I have e s F wj S y 4 if i f c v yN r. r j u S 3 fro hi y I b r s q 1 i S. 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C S' S r P f fM M t j h rS I r ai I 1 ft AC tL J nam named d the kid sister At the rate rat of ot speed were we're going there are are twenty generations generations gen gen- to a century at periods of five years each ea each h. h These girls are ate arev even wiser than than we were They are benefiting by our by-our our mis- mis 1 takes Some of us paid for our missteps before we acquired wisdom But I dont don't think it was necessary for more than one girl in a crowd to pay the price The The kid sister has poise and self re liance which are hers without our gle She knows exactly what she wants In romance she speaks for herself and makes tier own decisions Her father doesn't have to be approached to give consent Not that she means to him The reason for it is that tables have turned These girls even talk to O Otheir their own mothers like grandmothers T To illustrate the point Joan Lon ton London London don recalled an interesting incident when two kid sisters took their mother by the arm and gave her the air when air when they saw that she had imbibed too much Lets take mother out for a walk the girl of 16 suggested to her sister 18 when mummy was flushed and dizzy And they paraded her out In the open in the same solicitous way grandmother would have led her daughter who had taken a bit too much trouble with this gener generation tion Is 15 THE 1 parallel to the difficulties that arise In all new situations that situations that some go to ex ex- ex In all circumstances some some know ow no limit So that it isn't anything to be alarmed over if It a few youngsters try to tobe tobe tobe be smart and ultra She had in mind a case which a minIster min minister ister inter had told her about Involving two two very young people who had come to him to be married with a kind of ceremony that would enable them to break their ties without any trouble The boy was in his early she still in her teens She Slie didn't Intend to wear a ring and she didn't want to lose her name and her het identity because no one else in her set did either cither But such cases are rare Joan London London London Lon Lon- don said On the whole these kids are sensible well-balanced well youngsters who make a few mistakes because they haven't seen enough of life to know It In tn all its phases They learned something from their flapper sister but their predecessors predecessors predecessors pred pred- had to fight so hard to hold their own that their example hasn't left all the Imprints It ft should i s 4 J I I t J 1 p j But But flappers are giving society better better tetter bet bet tet ter babies In rec recently compiled statistics statistics statistics statis statis- tics flappers were given credit for the best the healthiest offspring To begin with the children Inherited the strength of young of-young young parents who who hadn't had a chance to waste their energy in the struggle and shuffle for existence Then those mothers who had established a precedent precedent precedent prec prec- for women to think of self as a as separate entity regarded the baby a as s part of self and therefore it had to be the cats meow The flapper mothers didn't go to their own mothers mother or to the elderly neighbor for information They were In tn- tn dependent They wanted the highest authority And to o them goes the credit for popularizing baby specialists not only dur during g illness but for consultation in rearing the healthy child Joan London still bears a close re resemblance resemblance resemblance re- re semblance to the vivacious flapper who effervesced with a new enthusiasm a few years ago She Is pretty and she looks at you and listens wide-eyed wide and inter Inter- ested Only when she refers to her fathers father's death does the fire seem to fade out of her her eyes He was taken from her when sh she shei needed him most molt Father educated us himself when we were small mall she said Then when conditions conditions conditions con con- at home changed we e went to school But we always consulted him in arra arranging ging our programs I remember writing to him when I was at high school asking him If I should study Latin Dont take up Latin and dont don't bother with Gr Greek ek he wrote back tack He even had his made up that his daughters wouldn't go to the university He said that It hadn't done much for him and h he didn't to waste our time But when he died everything was altered I was still tt rt high school when he hc pas passed ed away So Soto Soto Soto to make up in a small way wal what I had lost I entered the university as soon as asI I 1 1 was eligible and stayed on until the end end j ROM O the bit of her own experience experienceS 1 S and ands and from comments among her friends Joan London does not believe that men men ar are entirely in sympathy with the new woman who is not very very much at home A good many men who uphold the combination of a wife and a career do so either because they dont don't want to be belo lo looked ked down upon as old-fashioned old or ori orl they l- l arc are not married and ther therefore do not u I 7 understand other men in their resent resent- ment The tradition is 15 for man to bein be bein in the lead and he doesn't want to give up without a struggle He wants to feel that the womenfolk depend upon him Inthe inthe In Inthe the home For that reason I 1 am afraid that the financial consideration in companionate marriage making the man responsible for himself and not for his wife's financial burdens will not be so popular with the men They have their hold by controlling the economic situation If It they find that that responsibility is taken from them it will be as if their strength were going For a time I thought that only the very average men had that old-fashioned old idea I felt that they hadn't progressed far enough and I didn't expect them to see this new point of view NOTHING of the sort My own husband husband husband hus- hus band is just as conservative as the rest of them He had radical ideas before we were married He was so advanced In his opinions opinions' on the relations between husband husband husband hus hus- band and wife that I wondered much and worried a little over the kind of wild marriage I was walking into He had a notion that a union of two or three years' years duration was sufficient He couldn't conceive of happiness lasting be beyond beyond beyond be- be yond that time That was how he felt when we v.-e began But Its It's amusing to see how things worked out He Is the sanest of married men So are they all when they marry They want their wives to feel if not exactly submissive at least not outside because of another interest In their lives independent of theirs to together to- to gether And the husband Charles Malamuth the young instructor at the University of ot California now preaches on conservatism and strong ties in marriage if he preaches on marriage at all So far as her own views are concerned she too favors the old-fashioned old marriage with some modifications A husband and wife should be bc companions though they needn't contract a companionate mar mat She favors a marriage with children chil chil- dren who should be raised by their mother Nurses may be scientific she said but they haven't the same reason to be bs concerned about the childs child's permanent habits For Instance my boy who is 6 B now isn't afraid of anything ng Hell He'll go anywhere and he Isn't intimidated by anything Whereas a a. mother will wUl never know to what hat extent a nurse is to blame for inculcating Inculcating Inculcating cating 1 fear on the child My father wouldn't have us afraid of any anything thing We weren't to know fear of any kind lM it t by u Ledger J |