Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-02-20 | Page 11 | Youth Will be Served

I o III I Youth Will Be Served 1 I 4 By CYNTHIA GREY Is ra your home home an Internment camp q t I Or a base of supplies supplies' Or Is It really a home I The These Thes are not polite oute olite questions And yet many a mother must be asking them of oZ herself night after atter night wh when n half th the youngsters rs in n this country are spending their time In movies or dance palaces or In p parked autor automobiles In a dozen forms Jazz the modern Pled Piper has hits lured them all aU from home The boys bors' and girls are escaping from it as if it it were Libby prison instead d of the place that Home Home Sweet Home was written about I As a place to sleep and eat ii IQ home still exists I of oJ course And Its It's convenient as a a. base of supplies I for such things as clean clothes lip sticks sUcks golf stIcks sticks and pocket money mone from dad even even now nosy I But as a a. social center its It's the young joung crowds crowd's 1 idea of zero In entertainment t these thee too peppy days das I 1 know the head of ot a family w who o bought the finest radio he lie afford fn n an effort to l keep ee Marger his willed self young joung daughter at home I nights with her beaus I But dad Margery cheerfully pointed out a I Week later all the best music comes in after aCter I midnight anyway So If I get home then I can I still hear it and not miss my nay evenings evening's fun I C e i I Margery Is 16 and a schoolgirl Ten or fifteen years ears ago a child chUd of her ago age would have ha spent the I evenings studying or playing checkers checker or making fudge with her bo boy friend in the kitchen At 10 I o'clock the bo boy friend would have gone home and Margery would have h been sent to bed for tor her nine hours' hours sleep Today she snaps her fingers at all this and smartly remarks that Three o'Clock In the Morning Morn Morn- 1 ing Is her own national The flapper and her bo boy friend are the J problem I of the hour All AH the latest books from Flaming naming I Youth to West of the Water Yater Tower have been written about them thena and their pl playing ying with fire The terrible things things the tho degrading things things that that happen In them couldn't happen to young joung people who were taken taleen care of at home instead of being left to themselves But these things truly are happening happening happening hap hap- pening every day The novel has always been a a. mirror held to life liCe It seems to me that the home must bo modernIzed modernized modernized mod mod- as the church has been modernized It Is no longer the solemn formal thing it was twenty years ago The church today is more alive and progressive since the time of the Great Schism C C a I The mother who turns her house over to herson herson her son and daughter for a dance two or 01 three times a I month Is is doing a fine tine thing foi them For Tor all oung ung things love gaiety and 1 If the they find It at home they the wont won't go outside for tor It 11 I It Is not expensive to bake a a. couple of hundred cookies and provide a few gallons of cider elder and a dozen up to the minute dance records for a party part I Having done that the wise mother will disappear I from the scene to some vantage point where she I Ican can chaperone the guests without having them i j know it For young folks are like little children they children they can I have a better time when they think no one Is Ig watching them than they can when an older person Is in charge And suppose the polished floors do get scratched and the mantel clock broken Its It's better to turn tura I your Our home into a clubhouse a meeting place for the whole neighborhood than it Is to sit In an orderly room room waiting up until Son John comes home or worrying because Daughter Mary Is Is' Is out so late In search of that cheer that It Is the duty of f the home to provide For youth will be served And its it's up to the home and the maker of the home to serve It The mother who does will have caught up with the Jazz Age and robbed It of all Its danger