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Show requiring the services of a chaperon for nny other occasion she is begim ning to dispense with the chaperon altogether. The present state of nf fairs would not shock the retiring guardian of maidenly modesty and morals, because she would be simply and utterly unable to grasp it." GIRL OF TODAY INDEPENDENT Modern Young Woman Has No Need of Chaperon, Says Kathleen Norris, the Novelist. "Even in my memory girls never were allowed to enter restaurants without a male escort of their own family or a maid, nor did one dream of the theater unless similarly guarded guard-ed ; on boats and trains the watchful watch-ful elder woman was never absent. And still, in Latin countries, schoolgirls school-girls are accompanied to and fro with scrupulous care. "But our young women go their enormously varied and constantly in-r-nasing ways in casual freedom and solitude," writes Kathleen Norris in McCall's. "Only a few weeks ago I noticed, in the colossal dining room of a big department store that the bills of fare were actually planned to please the delicate sex.- "Everywhere the world is changing to meet her, as she changes to meet the world, and as it would be palpably pal-pably absurd to have her traveling downtown in the public cars, earning her living in some big office, lunching alone amid a thousand men and then |