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Show Suffrage, War And Movies Aid In Girl Changes Woman "Educator Says Modefn Younjf Woman Is Bold About Talk on Sex SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Jan. 12. All San Diego Is discussing with interest today an address given before the San Diego club yesterday by Mrs. Clark W. McKee of the high chool faculty, in which Mrs. McKee scored the "modern giri' and gave her views on the things that have "made her what she is." "The g i rl of today," she sa i d. "is not the innocent, shielded, pink cotton cot-ton type of thirty years ago. She no longer blushes or drops her eyes at mention of sex relations and problems, prob-lems, but, on the contrary, discusses them freely with her friends, male as well as female. The old-faehioned girl who taboos such subjects is the exception, "What has brought sbout the change? Many things, but to my mind three are especially responsible: Moving pictures, the war and woman suffrage." Mrs. McKe charged that the girls learne! to "vamp" from the pictures, th it -1 hey had iet down" in actions and morals during the war and that suffrage has "put the women on the level with men." "ncernmg j.izz. the speaker said : "The j.-4J!X music, the dress nf the day, ha e emphasized the physical in our girls, exposed as far up from the feet arid as far down from the throat as the laws of the l.tnd will permit, delight to shiver and shake to the mtiMC of janirling strings. l LlaJICing la no longer lhft 'poetry nf : motion.' nor music a 'concord of sweet I sounds.' |