Show Dorothy Dix AND KEEN EFFICIENT THE MODERN GIRL IS MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD AND COURAGEOUS BUT SUT SHE LACKS UNSELFISHNESS MISS 1927 HER SWEETNESS AND IS NOT WISE ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT THAT ONLY THOSE WOMEN ACHIEVE HAPPINESS WHO GIVE IT OUT WITH BOTH HANDS A CORRESPONDENT wants to know what I think about the girl irl girlA A of o today as compared with the girl sirl of o yesterday Well I think that the modern girl is like a great many other mod r i em ern Improvements She has hn ha her advantages ad- ad advantages Ei li vantages but she isn't altogether to 1 the good nor an unmixed blessing I She Is it like radio which is il a great Is and wonderful thing but hut It certainly Is II awful and wearing nerve af at affliction an zt to those who like a quiet life to have to live in if the house houle with i one THE HE girl of oC today is not In reality as di dif dif t- t ferent from the girl ot of yesterday esterday as we thInk It It Is only her methods and her man man- manners manners ners that have changed Evelyn is II still sUIl Eve r e and has just about the same complexes and andr r reactions that her greatest grandmother had A She still wants what she wants when she h DOROTHY DIX wants It and has the same old hankering after forbidden fruit and she still Is ready to lend an ear to any serpent In the grass with a glib tongue and A smooth line of ot chatter and the main business in life with her is s still getting married and babies Fundamentally the flapper and grandma are the same with the same desires and hopes and aims alms Its It's just In the way she goes goell abo t achieving these that marks the difference between them And AndIn Andin AndIn In some respects the flapper Is a better woman than grandma ever wu was and In other ways was grandma reached a height la tg which her grand granddaughter daughter will ill never climb The girl of today I is far more efficient than her grand grand- grandmother grand mother was w She She may not be able to execute as neat a darn in the heel of a sock but she can go out and earn enough money to buy socks by the gross You can hardly find a girl of 20 nowadays who hasn't been trained to some gainful pation by which she can cn support herself AND ND when llen It 11 comes to spending money these little addle addie AND A C haired bobbed-haired she bas can come nearer to getting cents cents- out of every dollar than Mr Mellon can fliey They are the great original bargain hounds and antI the way ay the they can trace a rate cut-rate sale to its lair and secure leCUre the one good thing In a pile ol of o junk leaves lea grandma panting with awe and amazement Furthermore the modern girl Is a sort of Jack all trades all trades and mistress of all accomplishments She can do any sort of work to she he sets her hand from being steeple jack down She can be a sturdy oak or a clinging vine de- de depending de to pending on whether there there Is a man around to hang on to or whether she has to support her family She can dance swim wlm play tennis tenni and golf trim a hat and drive a car apparently apparently by instinct There are no more helpless dependent young girls who can only wring their hands and weep beca because se that thatIs thatis Is II all that they know know- to do Jn In an emergency as there were In grandmas grandma's time Vl the modern guI gill h I is less modest than her grandmother W Vy Yg Is lg a question nobody can settle Certainly grandmother wore more clothes and longer loner skirts skirt and didn't roll her stockings bu but modesty In dress Is merely a matter of custom Knees are IntrInsically Intrinsically intrinsic- intrinsic intrinsically ally as decent as elbows elbo's and as a matter of oC fact act since legs hive have openly gone on display men dont don't look at them or notice them but they used to leer at grandmas grandma's ankles Probably just as much petting went on in the back par parlor lor br as ever takes take place J In parked automobiles And if young men and young women women OW now freely discuss subjects that were taboo in the past It is not because they are prurient mInded prurient in the truths about but because they find nothing obscene life And anyway th the modern girl Is in her rights when she asks the man who wants to marry her about the sort of life he has hn led and it I is only honest of her to tell the man sho Is about to marry if she cant can't or wont won't have children JOR In spite of or all that Is said to the contrary was as the percentage NOR N NIn it ft is of oC virtue higher among women In grandmothers grandmother's time than today Perhaps there are arc more snore girls now who defy the conventions and who live lI what they are pleased to call their own lives than thEre were ere In the past But in the past palt there were multitudes of women who married men they did not love In order to get support course the excuse Is to be made for grandfather that if it a girl didn't have a home or money the only way she could get get them was by marrying them She Sh had to sell herself for a living Not so 10 o the modern girl She seldom marries for any any- any anything anything thing except love She prefers to earn her own bread and butter Every girl standing behind a counter or sitting be- be before be before fore a typewriter a-typewriter or bending over a manicure table Is a liv liv- liv living mD in example of the decency and the honor of the modern girl IN E EFFICIENCY In courage In frankness and honesty and In corn com common cornI com com-A IN I mon roon sense In a sense 01 ot humor In justice and the ability to look life squarely In the face lace I find the girl ot of today superior to her grandmother but she lacks the sweetness the patience th fortitude the sense ense ot or duty and the unselfishness that her grandmother did The chief fault 1 1 find with the he modern girl Is I th-at th that she sho is hard boiled as the slang phrase goes She is out for her her- herself herself self and determined to have the most mott that she he can snatch with her greedy hands handl without regard to the feelings of any anyone anyone anyone one else HE has bas little mile consideration for hel lie Her parents and no Bensn ot or duty SHE S 3 toward them They are conveniences she the uses when she needs them and then casts aside as ruthlessly as ns an old shoe Even In her love lo she Is fierce and demanding taking Instead ot or giving She marries with one eye on the altar and the other on the tho th divorce court and breaks break her marriage vows with al a little compunction a as she would a dinner dinnel engagement She don does donnot not honestly try to make a success of matrimony and is a poor sport who takes her doll rags and goes home when the tho game goes against he heiS her hei CUE HE does not bring bring- to life the tenderness that softens It nor por the th S patience that enabled a woman to endure until she often orten wrested victory out of or defeat She does not rile rise to the sublime heights of sacrifice that puts another's well-being well above her own She It is not ot wIse wl enough to know that only those women achieve happiness who give It out with both hands hand And these things thing our eur grand grandmothers mothers did and were a A AD AND NIl D so th they y stand L nd the girl ol of today and the girl of ot yesterday Each a a product of o her tilDe tine time and each tach meeting the need ot of her time DOROTHY DIX CopyrIght by Public L Ledger |