OCR Text |
Show FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By Clar D. Smith Teenagers Are Full of Definite Ideas SHE MUST fL . BE TWENTY- T ,(( f NE orolpER ! Women have always been proud of their small waists. So if you have a nice figure why hide It?" Only one of the teenage girls said she Would like to have a chemise-style dress. "But mother won't let me have one," she added. "She thinks young girls shouldn't try to be sophisticated. She says teenagers look much nicer in skirts, blouses and sweaters." The answer that floored me, however, was the one from another an-other of the girls. "I don't like the chemise," she said. "But I suppose sup-pose it's all right for old women." "What do you mean by old," the announcer asked? "Oh, twenty-five or twenty-six," she said in that matter-of-fact teenage manner that stops adults cold. If you have a teenage problem you want to discuss, or an observation to make, address your letter to I (111 AND ABOl'T TKRNAGFRS, NATIONAL WrFKlY NKHSHAt'ER SMIVU 'K, FUANKKORT, KV. - I Teenagers can be shockingly matter-of-fact at times. This was never so well illustrated, to me at least, as it was recently during a teenage discussion on a local radio ra-dio program. The subject; the chemise. che-mise. Or, if you prefer, the sack. The panel consisted of four girls and one teenage boy. What did they think of the chemise? The young man was emphatic. "I don't like it," he said. "It might be all right for a girl who doesn't have It, but I think boys like to look at girls and there's nothing to look at if they're In a sack." One of the young ladies observed: ob-served: "I think a girl who has a good figure wants to show it off. |