| Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS Hf B DOROTHY niX mx nix the World paid fid Worn Woman Write MISS SIXTEEN IS ADVENTUROUS ROMANTIC TRUSTING O STRANGERS DISSATISFIED WITH PARENTAL CONTROL EAGER FOR STRANGE NEW THRILLS THRILLS-IS THRILLS IS IT ANY WONDER SWEET SIXTEEN IS THE DAN DANGEROUS AGE FOR GIRLS SIXTEEN SIXTEEN Is 1 the dangerous ago go for tor girls according to 1 lIes Maud S Miner secretary ot of tho the girls club ot of AmerIca Eleven thousand thou nd girls SU-IB In the rutted Stats Tan ran away from frou homo home 4 1 I last ear er oar and ind by tar far the th greater number of ot these thes aB were sweet sweat sixteen Nor need aD anY ny one be surprised at this Sixten I II th the ay age of adventure with a girl Sin It I Is the time when she he Is it re y K and discontented tired d of all th the old ld things U r B and eager for fr something new nw and strange 4 J H and full of thrills thrill It I Is II tho the time when her hT mind I is s with half formulated LJ B th thoughts thought and nd desires and when she he has a 4 morbid curiosity about abot tit life 4 1 j CUB iu has bas no DO idea hat she Ibe he desires ot of tate late Only SHE 3 It ft must be b something om totally unlike the th safe Bate H f quiet Main street she he has h s knoll kno n all alt her life and andr Ij r she Is i so JO engi for tor a change that she be In la ready to throw her cap cop over the tha windmill and nd follow tallow the tho 11 nix liFt forbidden path without Ever M-cr en e asking where It leads Sixteen with gIrls airl Is I the th romantic age Their head hud are r lull full of dreams dreamt that they fit on anything th that wear trousers They Th ysee see the Fairy Prince In every varnished haired little Jellybean of a youth They worship wor at the shrine of film stars and they to f become becom lit lifo Ifo saving elation f for r all th the drunkards and old Id rounder they me meet t bestow their affection Indiscriminately on the tir fit and the un unfit un- un unfit T lu in effect to every fit tit and like the heroine ot of Floradora they say sa man I I must mint love som some one and It might as aa sell ell b be yoi yo They are boy crazy as BE th the saying ro goes s and without knowing what they do they do not hesitate to sell ell their birthright o of maidenlY modestY and purity s for the mess meat of potta o o or of popularity For th the sake kc of automobile rider riMs rides Nor d d d gai ga parties and alnaR having plenty of ot dates dalee they the take risk risks at memory they shudder the ot or their Hies It Iles It thE escape destruction destruct At sixteen girl girls are Just jutt beginning to t realize sex tex attraction and they are drunk on It THE E realization that a mans mane man kiss kl can thrill them goes so s to their heads BE TI 1 like nine lne Ine The Tho kno that they thoy can play upon the emotions ot of men and make men desire them turns turn them Into Bacchante So we have havo tho sad ad and terrible daily dally spectacle cl of o little young girls tirl halt half dad clad tho the old game earn ot of sex ex Ith an openness that would shame a hardened woman ot or the Iho streets Sixteen I Is the CredulouS sg age with girl girls Th They y will believe anything because they have hav no knowledge knowledg of lit life with which tote to test t truth and falsehood Still less lee do they ever vr apply the acid test to any love vows vow vow Th They y have hav absolute faith Inthe In Inthe Inthe the honor of th the man who beg begs th them m to elope with him without with out about going through th the archaic marriage cere ceremony mony They never doubt that th the married men who make love loveto loveto to them will be faithful to them although they have hav been falth faIth less to their own wives and their own flesh fluh and blood hEY belle believe all the th wicked lie lies lIeR that are am written about th the beautiful THEY RUBY girls who ho ran avny ay from home homo and ent ent to Hollywood and became movie stars star the th net nel n day with sith million-dollar million contract contracts and limousines and pearls pearl or v ho went nt to some som city here they met a ft millionaire millionaires son eon on as a the were coming ou o i ot of the station tation who fell tell in love with them at sight Ight and nd married thim and took them ott off to Europe on a solid gold cold acht i f I i C At sIxteen they have hav never been bun hungry they have hav never n r been cold they have never lacked any comfort or T known any about ab ut providing for themselves They Th y have been b n shield ed from the rough tide side of life lite and the they know no more of f the thereal thereal thereal real world than a babe in Its Ita cradle CO 0 THEY THE believe in white whito magic They believe that nothing can ca hurt burt SO S J them and they wreck reck reck their lives line by eloping with strangers and running away to follow rollow Impossible careers career through the foolhardiness that 1 Is born of or Ignorance I At sixteen girl gIrls are nearly always at horn home and resentful of parental control THIS HIS is ls inevitable s the tho parents r are wi wise wlee enough nouh to use the ironI Iron THIS nd hand in the et glove clove In dealing with their children and few patents have hae the or are to take the trouble to 10 do this At sixteen n a girl feels feel older than she he ih will at eighty and she he sh shIt Is It more sure ure that she the know knows It all than she ahe he will ever vr be b again for there th re us a i no n wisdom and cocksureness c enes equal to f that of youth I i rIU THE other hand mother regards the th sixteen earold old ear girl as 88 a a amere amere av O mere child chUd who vho Is I treated a a d child and made to obey as M a child I Hence there la Is perpetual conflict between the two and sixteen is ready to fO do almost almott anything to get let away from what she he considers the grind grindIng lug Ing tyranny of or mother moth r and the jail ait o ot of a horn home I Writ Worst of all Sixteen 1 Is th the ag age when a girl think thinks every every- everything vry thing 11 us final You cannot convince h her r that she ahe h I Is In a stage tig i t of evolution and that sIx years year hence she h will not b be th the same ume amY person she h ii I today SHE S HE feel feels that her ller fancy tancy tor for some lome boy ii is th the eternal passion and so soshe soshe I ah she marries him and I Is miserable ever after Or ah she he makes some lome lomeI I other wrone rang and foolish decision that blasts her happiness Yet Yu Ve sixteen n i is the dangerous age Happy and f fortunate t are ar artho I these thole tho e girl girls who have wise wile wr and loving living mothers m th r to f watch them th mand and guide them through that perilous passage between child child- childhood childhood hood hod and womanhood DOROTHY DIX I CopyrIght 1 1924 24 by Ledger Company |
