Show b 1 Dean of Vassar Defends Defends Flap Flapper ere er Highest Type of American Girl 1 By RUTH ABELING POUGHKEEPSIE N N. N Y Feb 18 American girls girls girls' of 1922 are better fitted to become the mothers of the therace therace therace race than the girls of any previous gen gen- This is the opinion of Dean Ella McCaleb McCaleb McCaleb Mc- Mc Caleb of Vassar college Miss McCaleb has held an executive position at V Vassar for the past thirty thirty- seven years and during the entire period period period pe pe- has been in close touch with the girl students Girls who attend Vassar come from every part of the country Many come with the habit of satin slippers sUppers and gossamer stockings in winter bare knees bobbed hair and up touched-up lips Ups They some year old flappers with Just the old which you see every day on the street AMERICA NEVER HAD FINER GIRLS And Dean McCaleb wears no rose rose- colored glasses when she considers them Yet she says of ot the girls of to today today today to- to day America has never had a finer set of wives the making than today's girls They are not flippant They are not hardened or or coars coars- ened They are not less modest They are above all things neither lazy nor selfish Girls do queer things sometimes continued Dean McCaleb but they do donot donot donot not mean to be grotesque EXPLANATION OF TOO TIGHT SKIRT For Instance when you see an es especiallY especially especially es- es short and tight skirt on a girl one so extreme than It Is ugly It doesn't mean that there is any virtue lacking in the makeup of the girl It means simply explained the dean that dean that she neither sat down nor walked around when she selected her skirt Girls mistakes In regard to dress are most of ot them sins of omission They give an effect hasty consideration tion from only one leAnd le And after atter you buy a dress you ou know you cant can't nt discard it right away awny Dean smiled Personally Personality Id I'd rather see knickers than short tight skirts That brings to my mind another thing ab about ut modern girls they are not extra extravagant A great deal is heard about the wastefulness of the modern girl She Isn't wasteful and she's clever about her economies She has a good portion portion portion por por- tion of hard sense under her coiffure It has been developed by freedom and responsibility S I I l. l believe ye In a c certain certain rt I a amount of t to o RT 9 sr 1 a s r. r S Y r r y 7 9 of f i iDean 1 Dean 3 Ella McCaleb of Vass Vassar a r col cone college ege ge who approves the flapper 1922 model I freedom for girls They may be put on I their honor as soon as they are old enough to discriminate This develops better moral fibre PRIME REQUISITES OF WOMANLY WOMAN The three prime requisites of or the fine womanly woman are FIRST FIRST Honesty Honesty SECOND SECOND THIRD THIRD Sympathy The average girl of 1922 possesses those qualities As I see them they have hav a singularly serious idea of life and are trying to work out some idea Ida of service In spite of all the talk to the contrary I That a girl leaves her knees bare Is no sign of lacking moral strength personally Personally I frown on n bare knees be- be cause causo they are neither pretty nor warm at this time of the year That a girls girl's hair is bobbed is no indication Indication in In- In that she ehe isn't intellectual That she uses rouge Indicates no spiritual deficiency GIRLS SIMPLY FOLLOW FASHION Vassar discourages such habits and BO so should I I J personally but says Dean McCaleb those hose are aro purel purely external ex ex- things They have nothing nothing j eX-j whatever to do with the mental of or spiritual girl They might be accounted accounts account- account ed for In the fact that girls are peculiarly peculiarly sensItive to public sentIment They do not liko to s go against St It so they v fashion However the girls of 1922 are tIne fine a lot of gIrls as their grandmothers as ever dared bel I r I I I I I |