Show Mothers M Know Your Own Daughters I The Lesson Taught by Rachel Crothers After a Study of V the Girl of Today RUTH But I dont don't understand h her rl I dont don't know my own own daughter That Is the cry of th the mother Rachel Crothers has created or ted or perhaps It would be e better to say photographed photographed-In In her v ne new play Mary Iary the Photo Photographed Is better because because- the cry of ot that mother is the tho cry of every Mary Mrry In Inthis Inthis this day of ot the Independent daughter daugh gh ter this day of ot the sensation seekIng seeking seek seek- ing daughter this d day y of the forward forward for for- ward waNi looking daughter Because this question m of the new relation of ot the new mother to the new daughter is so vital so near to the Iho heart of ot every mother Rachel Hachel Crothers was sought out in her studio home on Thirty-eighth Thirty street so that an elaboration of ot her Ideas along this line might be obtained Rachel Crothers knows and loves es the younger generation She feels their needs and sympathizes with them V V The mother has just got to study her daughter she declared as her warm brown eyes ees flashed sympathetic sympathetic the lc appreciation of ot the Hie lie Importance Importance Importance Import Import- ance of the subject And she she- shela Is la getting more and moro more and more interested rested in her daughter She knows that there here is something that her daughter is seeking something that thai is fundamentally vital to her bet future future fundamentally n necessary to her growth and that of ot h her r com com- Her daughter cannot be her taught to troa tread the samo path mother has trod trod not not any more the tho than a a. puppy can be ba taught tricks of the old dog The Tho mother must cast off oft the lifelong shell of ot and aloofness Into which she has herself Miss 1 Crothers withdrawn She Sue must reflectively continued d this daughter out and ind meet who come Is seeking el the way y to a better I v rn and do more o enlightening fg t fixture For Forback Forback with I girl of ot today back of this sophistication her her wild desires attitude there is isa isa Is' Is Isa her who Is essentially honest Honest a girl as the tho day Is long Miss long Miss repeated bringing an emphatic n e em en- Crothers hand down down and and she wants want to meet her half haIr way her understand mother just what t It t is 15 she Is to denied be It cant can't for for- Oh Oh 10 looking have been too too too-oh oh that mothers hypocritical lets let's say too In Mary Iary t we e Ind a Mary last word In modernity who Is 13 the who looks Around ather ather at ather She Is a Mary world an antI and finds It social her little In something Family life lacking jacking Her friends are all wrong s seems ems by two or more parents parents par bewIldered Divorces aro are prolific onto seething beneath beneath be be- Quarrels Quarrel are always respectability ity Marriage Marriage Mar Mar- neath outward bitter fa 1 to her a a. seems m to find out the truth In an nn effort the right road to happiness hap hap- to discover for tor a party of pines she arranged and two girls gIrls to to togo men five three three for a week camping love go of ot the tho boys S were in Two l know she ahe didn't now with with her and aud which one she loved V her hAr mother and nd So she goes her to cards on the table frankly lays she Intends to tp do tells tells h her r what she hopes to discover Tells her that intimacies of close as association as- as through the just which boy is the tho right bov boy for her fails her She ob- ob The strenuously mother to the preposition finally disappears And the girl and mother die dis When the father and the girl has gone pone that ci ct ver vel old year son thit their young oung time the same at has vanished they confront each other with the truth At last the truth Is laid bare The father cries rles Why h have haye we such wicked children Miss Crothers recalled and th tha mother replies thoughtfully I 1 dont don't know that they are so wicked Ve We dont don't know them The mother Is getting r to t the truth truth and and that is if she la is tt tb understand d da thi children Il she must be frank and honest with them But It t is a a. fifty fifty-fifty proposition prop prop- Hl n. n The rather father d too has S his share V lIe He must forget torget business when he comes home cud pud be a friend to his children V And what about the the- father and mothers mother's relation to each other Suppose they cease to love each other as they do In the play Miss Crothers was asked Then they should set Zet a a. di divorce divorce divorce di- di vorce Miss Crothers replied promptly There Is nothing young people sense quicker than discord in the home There is nothing more detrimental to them What could be more horrible than a a. man and woman oman continuing to feign a alove alove love which had ceased t to exist It ItIs Itis Is not only wrong for themselves but it Is wrong for the children to tobe tobo tobo bo be surrounded by such conti But until a a. mother can be bo honest honest hon lion est until she Is is able to tl meet her sons and daughters half hall way she will not be able to understand the younger generation as It Js is today Miss Crothers concluded She must put her car cards s on the table |