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Show WRONG VIEWPOINT OF LIFE . t Foolish "Modern Girls" Who Get the Idea That They Know Better , Than Their Mothers. Scene The dressing -room of a Broadway restaurant at. the dinner hour. Two of the prettiest girls imaginable, both in frocks that suggested sug-gested not the city shops, but the careful care-ful fashioning of mothers' hands, were smoking and laying on rouge, with, lavish hand. And both ' were excited, for evidently tilings had been happening happen-ing at home. . - Said Rose and -' Black : -"Those -chumps told ma that I hadn't been working there for six weeks. There was an awful row at home when she found out." . Her companion sneered complacently complacent-ly : "Well, I never tell my mother anything. My job's my own business, Wliaf's tbe use? They don't seem to understand that times have changed: You can't, live in New York like they did in the backwoods when they were young. If they think I'm going to . . slave' in an office at twelve a week and never go out at night and then marry someone who means, the Bronx and . . three rooms they have another guess coining. Not for me." Two - pretty faces, hardened into -lines that ill became them, turned toward the corridor and their waiting - escorts. New York Sun. ., |