Show o ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRAIL By THOMAS A. A CLARK CLARKton of University Imn ienn t-on t of Men Q 1924 1921 Western Newspaper Union CHANGING CUSTOMS rIA HAVE VE seen a n good many statements statement I within the last few months to the effect et ef feet that drat our young people are degenerating degenerating degen degen- that the moral standards of they girls especially are arc lower than were Mere and that youth Is going to the dogs dog's generally I have seen as many young oung people as ns the time next man and I dont don't believe e It It Is simply that lint girls url are more frank trunk than they were a generation ago they are ore more open they conceal less less less- the they In la fact conceal vcr very little either cither physical or emotional The Time older generatIon generation generation gen gen- of ot women may have had a good goodman man many questionable things go o through their minds but they were discreet they thought under the cover of ot darkness darkness dark dark- ness thC they seldom gave anything away awny I In our grandmothers grandmothers' day the mysteries mysteries mysteries mys mys- teries of life were never discussed they were sot not nice The privacies of ot the feminine toilet were Inviolate and beyond the knowledge and the experience experience ence of man Things are different now i In a public restaurant early one morning not long Jong ago while waiting for a train I sat sut near a 0 young girl an and her fiance flance as I gathered from Crom the conversation con that drifted to me Ine She was wasa wasn a n pretty girl tastefully gowned tier Her voice was soft and her speech correct and ond refined It was early morning as asI asI asI I have said and she was to take a atrain atrain atrain train as os I was She hind had hu had none aone too much time I presume for arraying herself properly The male member of the time combination tion true to t type pe acl addressed himself pretty tty completely to his Iris bacon hacon and the morning paper The young woman attention to her toilet with as little embarrassment as ns a careful ful chauffeur starting on n a Journey might have gone over oyer his car to see that the time battery had water In It It that there was oil In the tho differential gas In time the tank the carpet brushed and the time body of the car properly properly properly prop prop- erly polished From a bug of ot tools which all nil careful careful careful care care- ful young women now carry with v them wherever they go o she got out the paraphernalia paraphernalia para para- ter f t r putting her hem nails mIlls Into condition There Is nothing more Irrl- Irrl h tating than Ulan a P dangling hang hangnail Then the stick lip a vas as as generously applied and the time ed edges el of If the rou rouge e blotch on her powdered cheek softened a little I r should not have hac been surprised or shocked shocked nor nor ed-nor nor would her companion I think think think-if If she had given her teeth the time once over and screwed on a n pair of or earrings or adjusted a n transformation dragged from f m the recesses of her tool box bor Bl Buther i her frI friend had finished his breakfast st at lit t this stage of the proceedings pro pro- s and she had no time for further further further fur fur- ther details As I said I dont don't believe belle tha that young oun people Innately are particularly larJ lady different from what they were In our grandmothers' grandmothers time It Is la Just that customs are changing |