Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Every Generation Has Dangers ABOUT my teen-age women from Maine to Monterey have been asking during the last puzzling about and night and going what's happened to the demands India Roberts of the in your town talking beaux and dates and who is going with My husband and I are nearly the letter goes Phyllis is Frances two years They are lovely good helpful at and they are all our But ever since school started last fall we have been flooded with girl-boy long-legged young creatures infest our downstairs and every week end presents a has with a boy for little Phil is rapidly following They only want to do the other girls mothers let them but isn't that a lot more than girls so young ought to be allowed to in parties of four or school house And they all pair off as naturally as if they had been married for Dangers and Advantages isn't this very Doesn't it stimulate desires and emotions that belong to much later Doesn't It take the bloom off our You've been asked this question thousands of what is your in the first this situation isn't all Like every other custom of every other It has its and its There are good things in this sudden leap from childhood into understanding understanding on this question of if back of the girl and the boy there is a affectionate family as a rock of se- ill girl-boy talk to which they may anchor their dancing Girls years ago were romantic so so so kept in the dark that marriage to them was often a serious disillusionment and a Managing mammas inveigled the groom Into and pompous papas arranged the Without that dowry European girls could not hope for marriage at We who were school girls 50 years ago didn't have the managing and dots and were never American But we did have all the ignorance that made social events agonies for youngsters of both And believe we took just as poignant and obsessive an interest in the subject of sex as do girls of only we knew nothing about and were not allowed to For us it was all surmise and Dances were mis' uncertainties until one's card was I recommend Rosamund Lehman's delightful novel To The as a perfect picture of what a dance meant then to a unpopular strangely today's teen-agers have accomplished what chaperons and mothers and patronesses have vainly tried to achieve for whole merely in the life of a dignified small that she has a sure partner for movie at school on all-day She likes him with all the honesty she shows her girl they save each other endless endless chances to establish an inferiority an unpopularity for all the years of their Victorian girls never talked to men at except when in the presence of their Girls of my generation confined themselves to endless friendships with their own but became muscle affected and nervous when men came Today's custom does away with both these unnatural But like all other new things we have to see in it a challenge to a new Like the rules we make for our children concerning we have met this juvenile development with an increase of |