Show W WOULD REFORM THE MEN MUNCIE IND GIRLS WILL DE fiand ft faan AND DG GREATER R EATER DEFERENCE 5 at 1 t X at ArMen must stand with bared heads when talking to them in tbt the at street ree under penalty of 1 r 6 octaf ostra ostracism cism v muncie ind inda haying having reached the canci conclusion slon that fafe he young men of to day have becci become me too lax la in showing deference to the weaker sex the leap year yea r club lu com composed p of a number of girls of the tha younger society here have declared for a reform in mens meas manners nel rs and have established a set of rules which they require them to live up to the penalty being social ostracism the first rule is that every young man on meeting a girl acquaintance in the street or a public place shall lift his hat removing it entirely from his head the perfunctory salute as it if the young men were privates la in the army recognizing an officer will not go with members of the leap year c club ab hereafter but they still go fur n 1 I I 1 11 1 1 1 thor ther when a young man meets one of 0 tho the young women of the club and stops to talk with her ho he alist remove his hat entirely from hla his head and hold it in his hand while the conversation continues continue the only exception to be made to hid rule Is in case the young man to la III when he may bo be allowed to replace the hat on head fiend after ho he has once doffed coffed it there are other rules rulea such as re quiring young men man friends to give up tip seats in street cars to any woman who may be standing and removing their pats hats in ill public elevators hut but tile tha young women ray cay these customs are commonly observed now tile tha indications are that the average young man Is losing the old time respect for a woman merely because she Is a woman said one of the members of the leap year club the cus cua torn in the small towns of doing away with chaperons chaperones chape rons the educational coeducational co institutions and the camaraderie that exists between american boys and girls and young men and women have had a tendency to break down the na tural barriers that should be kept up when the average young man meets in tho the street a girl that he knows pretty well for instance he raises his hand to hla his hat but that Is about all it if he stops to talk to her tile chances aro are that ho he does not even do that but merely says hello margy and lets it go ga at that what the girls of this club desire to t 0 do to Is to get back in some small smal measure to the customs of chi of course we dont expect a modern young man in pressed trousers patent leather shoes and high collar to buckle on a suit of armor and fight somebody for us but we do believe bol love and aid we think that every woman thinks the same way that he should treat us ua with a little more deference than he does doea his young men friends but even so 60 the boys are not altogether to blame in being anxious to bo be regarded as I 1 good fellows some of the young women have rather encouraged these liberties and so BO the young men have baa fallen into ungallant ways do you think your plan will work was asked it will have to work with the boys we know or well have to hunt other young men friends was the firm reply of the pretty miss of 20 years who was the speaker but you must excuse me for im going to have company tonight to night probably a modern knight errant was remarked well it if he hell learn to be |