| Show DOROTHY DIX TALKS C n DOROTHY DIX lie Uie Worlds World's t J Woman Writer GRANDMOTHERS GRANDMOTHER'S DRESS AND ACTIONS WEREN'T SENSIBLE AT ATAL Al AALL AL ALL COMPARED WITH THOSE OF HER FLAPPER GRANDDAUGHTER A A HIGH school debating society is going to discuss the 18 t I-t A question Whether Grandmother Dressed More Moro Sensibly Than thi the day le day Present Girl Girt Does Docs and ond Whether Grandmother Was Vas a More Sensible e Individual than Her Granddaughter Grand aughter Is And ono one ot of tho orators of the Slon t nl ft nuts me to help out on th the negative negative- I i le cf 44 of the th proposition and assist her to pro prop pro p g how vcr cr ver very much superior grandmother iX- iX c was to her degenerate degenerates flapper TI fc tEr k- k kt kI Ht P t t I I cant can't The world do move iSsi r r and i women have havo moved with it st and t-Mi t with mth all of her faults and they are many thick her bobbed hair tc I think the girl of tody IS mIles S rit S S and miles beyond the woman of wiS fifty y or r y years ago and s y out of sight of or the mincing simper v Ing ladles of sIxty Y or seventy years te ago It is tho the con Q Of OC course this Ibis Is herEsy hereby DOROTHY DIX thing to maintain that our Ki grinI mothers were the embodiment o of every vii vii vii- tue lue Fashions F ft ere cre sensible in rn their dav da da All women TV were ere and home loving losing 10 Ing All girls ere ere demure and proper and md preferred at home and darning to going to parties Every as thrifty and an and fitted to malee maico a good wife W Wo 0 know that all these things are arc truo true because we have been told them b by grandmother s herself Unfortunately history doesn't bear grandmother out When discourses about granddaughters granddaughter's short skirts ad a grows eloquent about how iniquitous they are and how sensibly she dressed you have only to draw out an old Godey book orsome or orsome orsome some other fashion magazine to prove her words untrue THEY show grandmother In a hoopskirt that took up as al much roonA room I a as a 0 circus tent and that made anything but the most sedate I loco ben locc- locc T motion mo on Impossible Grandmother couldn't have sprinted for a tI sineT cai Indeed rol-Indeed indeed only two tiro of ot three of oC ot her ber could have ridden on a II street streetcar car ebe was so she ahe voluminous she couldn't have done any of ot tho thousands thou thou- thousands sands of things that girls do every day because she was bound an and hobbled by her ber clothes Observe also grandmothers grandmother's waist Eighteen Inches was considered a proper belt measure which means that she as laced lac until she squeezed the tha ery cry ery life Hie out of her ller Indeed when whon grandmother Is off oft the lecture platform she will tell you how bow she wet her corsets comets and was laced into them by a strong armed maid reald i II b bas l as IlS to get the greatest amount of o compression out o of them Mother also tells how sensibly che ohe dressed yet mother wore pounds of false hair on her head and a bustle on herback herback her herback back and skirts that swept the st cots and sleeves sleeve so big that she had to go through a door sideways CHE also was Ia laced ed to the limit of ot human buman endurance Surely no nc SHE S Salso 3 woman who remembers how her ber back baek used to ache acho from the tho wro contraptions strapped upon It It and how bow tired she used to get packing around the ten or fifteen pounds of ot haircloth and papier mache used to make mako her ber starts and sleeves stand out and who retails bow how her arm ached from Crom holding up her skirt every time tilDe sho abo walked can argue 9 that there was anything sensible about the v nay a ay she ho used to dress j Perhaps girls wear their skirts too short now Perhaps they dont don't wear ear enough petticoats Perhaps their Ices bodices aro BrO too scant But Dut I their clothes are sanity itself compared with those o ot of their mothers mother l and grandmothers In her wildest moments the flapper never neTer does l anything so silly as wearing w aring hoop skirts and microbe catchers bier mo mo are aro unhampered and she has has- parked has parked her corsets corset In het he liei bureau drawer where here they will nIl do the least beast harm barm Girls are more sensible in every way now then they used to be Why if we were confronted with a girl arl of grandmother's grandmother's ers er's time now wed we'd consider her a moron She would be as helpless as a 3 baby She wouldn't know now how to do anyone any one of the million and one things that every modern girl knows s how to do and that we think nothing of because it is such a matter of course THERE are hundreds of ot thousands of ot girls seventeen and eighteen TRInI T and nineteen years ears ild ld who are arc not only earning their own but are helping to support their families And It takes a lot o of Intel Intelligence to hold down any sort rt ot of a job and do the bind tind Ind of ot work for Cor which employers are willing to pay Furthermore just the common or garden arden variety of girl Is a capable little muo creature TV nho ho can get a hundred cents out of ot every dollar dolIar and rush the tho bargain counter and nho ho at twenty Is as shrewd and worldly wise as grandmother is at sixty sixty Likewise she can play golf and tennis and sail a boat boat and drive a car and trim a hat hat and give a luncheon and organize a charity drive and do a thousand other things that require what New Now England coup try folks call faculty and that It took grandmother half halt her lifetime I to acquire Ire The modem girl I 18 more sensible le in her relationship tomen to tomen tomen men than grandmother was Grandmother used to Sit ail around on the anxious seat and wait walt on the off chance that the man she wanted would come by and notice her and If he didn't she died of a broken heart Granddaughter Is a getter go-getter and if she sho doesn't achieve her hearts heart's desire she takes the tho next Vi best beat chance Which Is sound common sense discusses dl topics ViUl men that were taboo even GRANDDAUGHTER G twenty years ago It ft shocks us older ones but we wo cant can't deny that Ignorance never has been Innocence and no good ever came of ot blinking the truths troths of life I Also Alao it Is certainly better for tor any young couple to know each others other's views on vital matters before marriage Instead of waiting to find them out afterward No The flapper is neither a saint nor a Solomon In petti petticoats coats but she's fool AND ND she Is the embodiment r of all wisdom as compared with her hei AND grandmother at her age DOROTHY DIX Cop right 1823 1923 by Public Ledger Company |
