Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-02 | Page 8 | In Plain English

1 n Plain English Engli h h l n. n She was as much to blame as I Js is the plea of Will IVill Yh ho hoof St of th the murder of the unfortunate e Marl Marian Lambert r 11 ler the tle girl who was found foun dead in in the at Lake 1 opS c st t t. t near Chicago ri a a few weeks ago committed suicide or vas was 1 ui e d has caused hard hardly less less' discussion Oll than th this s r remark ma k of f her herr l' l f t r She ir She was as much to blame e as db 1 I 1 i 15 i. i the modern substitute for f Adi Alini's defense And the new form has las two advantages over the c j il j nt it com comes s near neater r the the and it has the backing of s science i pc f dl uch i fuch sentimentality is is S ordinarily wasted on any two persons persons' persons y ho A vh rb mal make an excursion away from conventional paths In tile f J sent moralizing Sn n n the Lambert case there are the usual L. L I s to girls ghIs with c explanations s of why it happened 1 Idleness which pe permits flirtations n is is s cited among the tho causes by t J jj o less ess an auth authority rity on sex problems than Gertrude Atherton the j eis Mrs Mis Atherton l b blames me modern life for or an abnormal amount I. I But science says all aU flirting is normal even even the birds birds' flirt Ignorance of things her mother should have taught her is freit ire fre- rel re- re l rint it among comments on cases cases cases' of this kind But But- every girl who is is old enough to think herself in love knows f ry y uell that she has a t l' l instinct which works for her own i j And she knows that hat is she is as much to bla blame e as s t the e man when lets her propensIty to flirt overcome her instinctive prud prudence nce There is is undoubtedly an increasing ing amount of familiarity inthe c in the conduct of boys and girls today In the mixing of many peoples in in national melting pot pol a great geat d arof s scum um must rise rise and a great d t. t cal al of sediment ha has s got to sink 7 In this purifying if standard process a high a-high high of morals and manis manis man man- rs is is to survive survive we must have done with hypocrisy and prudish- prudish and pretense in in fl the education of of boys and girls j We Ve must stop deceiving ourselves about the ways of nature nesses Each Dach sex se must assume its own responsibility for its own weaknesses weak I