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Show We, the Women Unless It Suits Your Style Don't Go in for Cuteness By RUTH MILLETT 'Cuteneu" ii quality girla have hard time dropping. In fact, It Is a pretty hard thing for them to manage, anyhow. Many a big, overstuffed girl goei In for cuteness when she should try for something more in keeping with her size, And many a business-like woman wom-an can't resist the temptation to be cute when there Is a man round she wants to Impress. The truth about cuteness Is that It la a quality few persons can handle, and that It belongs exclusively ex-clusively to the young. That may be the reason why women cling to It so tenaciously. But even the girl who Is little and gay and bright ought to give up outeness before her twenty-fifth twenty-fifth birthday rolls around. By then It la time for her to cultivate some quality that Is suitable for a woman. No woman steeds to have her eute act pointed out to her. She knows when she Is being cute. But oddly enough she doesn't know when cuteness Isn't becoming. becom-ing. That Is why she ought not to try It If she's past the age l limit. If she's large, or If she la j definitely some other type. There are so many things the j girl with college behind- her can ' be that she's foolish when she tries j to compete with 17-year-olds for S cuteness. They have her there . every time. But she doesn't enter competition competi-tion with them if she picks a more ! grown-up quality. She can be . clever. She can be charming. She can be sophisticated. She ran be musing. She can be friendly. Or she can be glamorous. All those re consistent with her age. None 1 of them will make her look plain ! silly. So, If she Is smart, a girl drops cuteness before her cuteness starts falling flat. |