| Show NTH REALM OF WOMAN DOES nOES COMRADESHIP I It t SPOIL SENTIMENT j t. t I If f BY Dr TEL E EVELYN PLUMMER I Have ave ve you noticed the tho growing comradeship com corn between the tho boys boyc and nd i f. f tb the way they share the same Hame pleasures the tho to same samo sports the sports the same name asked aked white-haired white a matron of a a. a rather rath rath- er faced sovere-faced man mon at a recent I recep- recep Uon tion i iYe Ye Yea I have and I dont don't like liko it wa was the quick retort I I Oh On I think if Its It's f perfectly lovel lovely expostulated ex ox- postulated his companion compani When I was wasa f a girl I was hemmed in b by a thousand and one one- conventionalities con My ly mother I was 1 constantly begging of me mo to remember re- re j member that I w was 8 a lady ady and must e abo everything else olse be l o genteel Wo We 0 bowed cd bo and and said MId thank and I 1 you 01 beg your pardon and blushed and looked eyed baby d' d and giggled and In general gonera acted as a If It wo we were perfect In infants Infanta Indeed It all I i al too loo often oCen seemed as if it we wo had to bo I granted rante permits from our fathers and moth mothers mother and aunts and uncles and end grandparents before wo could even oen open our mouths In the tho presence of so 60 august a 0 creature as A a man Ha Ho Ha How different It Is now Tho boys 10 and girls go every place together and treat I uch happenings c as a merely marel common common- place To the theater to parties to I week-end week jollifications tons to automobile excursions to amateur theatricals to I outdoor sports sport they wend their ways I In twos and threes and even dozens way i talking and laughing and telling funn funny fun fun- funI I n ny fly stories indeed even flirting and falling fall fallI falI fal- I I ing lag In love with each other Yot Yet no nomo none mo ne seems to think a thing tIming of ot it Its it-It's It-I's It it s I maid mad merely tho to way of or tho the man mon and nd the nemI said sold the tho te rather severe severe- faced mauI man mau manI I see you rou do not altogether approve I of or this turn of or affairs continued tho the white haired matron a man manfor for foi you ou Your sex are so sot sot in their I ways ways such such fearful creatures of ot habit that that you ou never nevor do countenance a 0 radical change oven avon if It It I Is for tho I bettor betor Not very lon long lonc ago agro I was asked od to chaperone a a weak end party at a fashionable hotel There 14 young peo people 10 In the crowd and neverin never neverin in 1 my whore whole life Ufo have I witnessed such sucha suchIL a IL f jolly wholesome bunch of at humanity I The rho boys boya were good talkers and full rul of ot college pranks and fairly bubbling over with lh harmless fun lUl and tho girls most moat assuredly could coul keep up their side of or the levity le They danced and boated and rode rodo and played golf goI and wandered wondered over or tho the fields felds until well until well really realy I al almost almost al al- I most cried because I wasn't young youn and carefree and best bost of ot all al a a twentieth century maiden maiden I Oh I 1 admit admi the tho young people do I have good times Umes re responded re- re the rather severe looking manThey manThey monThey man mon They do go O off on tho the wildest kind of larks Inks they danco and caper and sing sinS and frolic and d lo glSs-lo and talk entirely too much much The Tho boys and ond girl Irlo know each other B a f great deal dea better than they did when you and I were Cre I their age But Dut I 1 wonder if It it I really realy counts for tor more moro happiness I l I won Bon wonder onder on Bonder der der- der I Laws I Laws Interposed his com corn panion Youre Touro going s to deliver delver ono of ot those horrid moro moral lectures I see seo it in your eyo and sho she picked up UI her ber Ion long I dress s skirt as os if I to fleeNo fee flee I I No o 1 I am not noto came the reply I J Iwas was wa merely about to say soy that this comradeship la is killing lillIng sentiment Poor I little foll follow w Ho 10 IB In fairly mopping his hie brow and falling poll mall mel pol-mel to oven get s-et I tho smallest of or places plaes It I is 19 stopping old time old Its gallantry lt's its it's fairly riding I over and trampling upon adorable courtesy Its courtesy Its It's its it's making maIng tho tIm modern youth scoff at waving plumes and ad fair ladles in distress and oud even en compelling compelling- him to lose lOBO a lot of ot his bis time one one delightful instinct I 1 hava havo seen Been crowds of t bo boys sn and riC girls and andu from the crowl best families too plan to moot meet each other at dancing dancing- CI classes and theaters and a er J rinks l Time o boys carelessly c Iy b be bethere there wont won't you OUt Peggy Peg Peg- gy And d Peggy answers CB as t If she she- expected ex ex- g no better better treatment Why of ot course Now when I was 3 young It t I had bad wanted w Pi Peggy la at a 8 social o or a sleigh ride rido or so some mo pleasant gathering 1 I would have havo called at her homo home for her I see BOO ea young matono escorting themselves to evening e concerts concert an and evening receptions there receptions there are a 0 lot such hero here this evening and andl alas I 1 ponder uton where their husbands chanco chance to be bo Crowds of at girls all al alone alono como come COIO from night entertainments maybo maybo maybo may- may bo meeting familiar masculine faces upon the street cars care and welcoming them with as a much muc sang sang froid as if It tho they were smiling at a a kind-faced kind Newfoundland Newfoundland New Now dog dOl I 1 dont don't like like- this social code and I dont don't care caro cro who knows it I. I The haired gray womans woman's face fae looked a a trifle thoughtful There hero mo may bo ho some somo truth In la your side of at tho the argument ment she assented I 1 hadn't thou thought though ht mento of or it In that light ls-ht ls before But I must be going My son eon Is waiting to escort mo rae homo homna homo an and ho he bolon belongs s to tho the twentieth century too |
