| Show BETTY BETZ BETS Shady Stories Have No Place In Teen Agers Ager's Conversation Even though teen teen-ager J. J D. D lives on a street called Shady avenue in Lowville N. N Y he wont won't put up with the recent trend in shady stories among his gangIn gangIn gangIn gang In my school writes J. J D. D theres a big smut fad All jokes are dirty and the he most innocent remark has a a a. double meaning I always got along with my gang before this began and Id I'd like to continue that way But how can I keep my popularity popularity popularity larity without going going- too far with the rest of the gang Youre You're not the only one who ho feels this way Bub Bub and strangely enough its it's usually the fellas tellas who gripe the most when a round of shady stories stones is started in mixed company Lots Lotsof of ot times Umes a gent will spring a traveling salesman yarn just to put on a up grown-up act Perhaps the story is slightly smutty and maybe its it's outright but whatever it is hes he's started something Lets Let's glance around the room and see what happens after a raw joke is pulled Marys Mary's a goody goody-goody so she turns up her little nose and walks out of the room as if she were the grand duchess What a silly girl she is It would have been much smarter and more grownup if she had played dumb or just taken the attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude that the joke was very un un- funny Babs is the racy type but not really She just likes to give the idea that she knows all the answers So Babs lets out a big howl of bf laughter and eggs the fellas lellas on to tell more What a birdbrain No boy respects respect a girl who gets a kick out of dirty Jokes and its it's her mistake to encourage more more of the same filthy talk Judy's the little face doll-face type who acts shocked beyond words and then gets the girls in the powder room to tell her own dusty yarns in private What a phony and what bad taste for a young lady to act just like one of the boys in the back room Patsy's the end After a shady story has been told SHE comes out with one which she doesn't catch on to at all but it turns out to be dirtier than any of the boys would tell tellin tellin in private She's dumb for two reasons first for telling it and second for not even catching on to it What about the boys Well the behavior of the fellas usually usually usually usual usual- ly depends on the actions of the girls If they get frosty looks no laughs and even a few hunks of criticism dont don't worry they'll shelve those smutty stories and save them for lor the locker room But if the they get lots of giggles laughs and encouragement from the girls you may be sure that each fella is going to try to outdo outdo outdo out out- do the other You know kids there are so many things to talk about that you must be running pretty short on grey matter if you have to rely on dirty jokes to keep a group amused And after youve you've exhausted a round of ot stories what then The next time your group gets conversationally on the lower level put on the brakes before its it's too late Girls and fellas who get the habit of making making mak mak- ing lug suggestive remarks and telling telling telling tell tell- ing shady stories are only telling others that they're mentally stagnant and are really short on any conversational ideas And Arid if it you think its it's up grown-up youre you're mistaken there because because because be be- cause a real up grown-up joke is isone isone isone one with wit and humor and has nothing to do with the salesman and the f farm rm |
