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Show GIRL OF TODAY INDEPENDENT Modern Young Woman Has No Need of Chaperon, Says Kathleen Norrls, tho Novelist. "Kvcn In my memory girls never were allowed to enter restaurants without a initio escort of their own family or u maid, nor did one dream of tho theater unless similarly guarded; guard-ed; on boats and trains tho watchful watch-ful elder woman wns never absent. And still, In Latin countries, schoolgirls school-girls nro. accompanied to and fro with scrupulous care. "lint our young women go tholr enormously varied and constantly bi-r-naslng ways In casual freedom nnd solitude," wrllcs Kathleen Norrls In McCall's. "Only n few weeks ago I noticed, In tho colossal dining room of a big department store that tho bills of faro were actually planned to please the delicate sex. "Everywhere tho world Is changing to meet her, as sho changes to meet tho world, nnd as It would be palpably pal-pably absurd to have her traveling downtown In tho public cars, earning her living In some big oillce, lunching alone amid a thousand men and th'.'n requiring the services of n chaperon for any other occasion she Is hcglm nlng to dispense with the chaperon H altogether. The present stnto of of fairs would not shock the retiring; guardian of maidenly modesty ami ! morals, because sho would bo simply, nnd utterly unable to grasp. It." H |