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Show by Thelma Barsy Last melodrama at week we had an our house. My daughter Anne was the fair maiden. Jim, her beau, was the hero. Needless to say, I was the villain. Briefly, the plot involved a girl and boy caught in a major crisis created by her mother, who said, I honestly believe that girls shouldnt go steady! s, let me tell In case your children are not you, thems fightin words! And they certainly created in our home. a verbal too-faith- ful The mother of a ld teen-ager- girl free-for-- all "But Mother, Anne protested, ou'll never underI know all about you stand. Youre too and Daddy, and how you dated dozens of otheis before you went steady. But times are different now. This happens to be 1958' Anne is right. Things were different then, for teenage fashions do change in dating as well as in clothes But people children and their parents stay prettj much the same despite the calendar. Im as concerned about Anne's happiness and her future this year as my mother was about mine 20 years ago. Thats w by Ive given a lot of thought to this subject, but I still f 2 I takes a long, hard look at dating by young people and says: 6$ leee- I - t i r I I t I Having a "steady" makes life more comfortable for Neither has to worry about dates or face problems of adjusting to series of friends. But parents wonder, "Are they ready for it?" teen-ager- s. t I |