Show Dorothy Dix IX o J- J T I ITHE alks THE IDEAL OF THE MODERN GIRL IS TO LOOK AND ACT AS AJ A MANNISH AS POSSIBLE TO BE HARD BOILED AND EXPERIENCED EXPERIENCED AND FREE FREE BUT BUT WILL THE NEW WOMAN OMAN BE DE ANY HAPPIER WITH HER NEW CODE OF CONDUCT IF IF THERE Is one individual who has my profound sympathy s it Is s. s tho thoI I modern girl who has not courageously not to say foolhardily foolhardily under under under- taken aken tho the task of or making the world accept a D. new now type of or woman And that s ts some Home Job believe me v grI To begin with Uh she Is 19 trying to change chano the ideal ot or feminine pulchritude that has obtained since the beginning of oC time Tho beauty that dIL artists have painted and that men have wor worshiped worshiped since the man cave days has been a woo evo wooman wo woman man with softly rounded contour and 3 4 curves cunes with a wealth of glorious hair In which a man could tangle his heart and with a com complexion come e- e that was as fresh and fair and natural as the petal of oC a rose The Th modern girl derides that derides that type typo of beauty She starves herself to ema emaciation so that she Is o Q mere bag ba of bones banes She plucks out her eyebrows until there are are only a few scattering 5 hairs left She shears her head like a convict She calcimines her face DOROTHY DIX and daubs her paint p on her lips until they present the appearance of a cut of butchers' butchers meat and then she looks Into the mirror of her hep vanity case and calls c upon the world to Join In her admiration of herself TWENTY TWE TY years ago the tho scrawny bob haired bob haired painted up up little lilUe flapper dapper I of ot today would have been considered a caricature We should have laughed at her and wondered why hy any any girl would be willing to disfigure herself that way But Bat wo are being taught to accept her as belonging to the tho Impressionistic school of or art and perhaps we shall shaH even come some day to admiring her when our education has progressed a little farther l In the past pact we have held to the theory that when male mal maland and female He created cr them there God knew what He was about and that If He hadn't Intended men and women to be different and ard to look different He wouldn't have bothered to make both bothof of them The modern girl Is d doln lna her utmost to try to prove what a foolish blunder title t was on the part pout of the th AlmiGhty and Is en en- endeavoring endeavoring to the best of her ability to wipe out the sex line She has achieved an outward triumph to the extent that you yeu youcan youcan can only tell a girl and a boy apart at first sight by the th fact that the boy has two legs lees In his trousers while the girl general general- generally ly has hs only one Also Alo that the girls girl's trouser leg Is h cut off off- above her knees s while the boys boy's comes down to the th Ground BUT UT tho the ideal of oC every girl is to look as much like a boy as possible I. I She has a boyish bob She shaves tho the back of her neck Mck Sho strives to attain a boyish figure She smokes es like a D. boy and curses like a boy bo and drinks out ot of a flask fias with tho the boys bos and the highest compliment you can pay her is to say that she plays golf gol like a men man or has bas a virile style stylo in writing I It used to be he thought that what attracted men to v omen women was the essentially feminine qualities that qualities that men liked women who were gentle Jentle and sweet in manner who were and lacy and fru-fru fru as to clothes and who wh had dainty little soft hands Perhaps the re n of the decline in matrimony 13 Is became men men ve vc Ie not yet been educated ed up to the th where they can EC St see anything alluring in a girl air who looks like an understudy of their little brother nor do do they find any ar thrill in irs holding big bia hand that has corns on it from playing golf gaIt Indeed old die hard especially among amono men who whore are re really more mors conventional than women and I often vo wor wo r rif if any men man ever popped the question to a woman in pants THE THC modern girl has cast all of or the old traditional virtues of or her sex sexI I into the discard Time was when we of ot the tho purity and Inno inno- Innocence innocence innocence cence of a young joung girl We made male her ignorance of or the world a merit and we compared her he- heto to n a lily iiI or 01 a rose with l tl dew upon it H. And we spoke of ot women's tenderness and their theIr- th r sympathy and their patience and steadfastness Tho modern erD young girl prides prides' herself hersel on being hard boned and of or knowing all there li it to co to tell and few things more She is a wise Jane that nobody can take in with any an tale talc of or sorrow or suffering and she hasn't a tear In her whole system Her heart Is Just a useful blood pump not a mountain overflowing with pity for tor the woes oes of tho the trou troubled troubled bled and afflicted She has not eliminated d love and marriage and home as yet because b e they are all Interesting experiences and she doesn't want tant to miss anything but she has made love an experiment marriage a temporary expedient and horns homo a transient hotel where there you check out If you dont don't like the service or the com corn pany For the modern girls girl's philosophy is that we get Jet out of life only what we grab off and It remains tr t be seen whether she che chewill will get more than those thoe older women who who- wh perhaps had more heart than head who loved greatly who tto had the sacred gift of tears and who were Invincible jut just through their gentleness and anti softness and womanliness womanliness' THE THE modern girl is exploiting a now new code ot of conduct for women Why I should men have hare a monopoly on the sowing of or wild oats she asks 7 What is the justice in a double standard of or morals Why should a girl keep herself herse pure in order to marry a man who has perhaps a hec bee hectic tic lie past And co so she snaps her fingers in Mrs Grundys Grundy's face and goes on wild parties and gets drunk and pets and kisses every Tom Dick and Harry who takes her to the movies or buys bus her an ice Ico cream soda And Justifies her escapades by saying that men have haye always done that way Cray and and that what Is sauce for the goose is sauce sauco for the gandor gander And one wonders If men will accept this new code If they will jio po longer demand that the girls they marry be no better than they are cre and If women themselves will bs be b happier h when they have no longer lon r any Ideal of and modesty to live up to But at any rate the t e most Interesting thing In this Inter Inter- Interesting Interesting esting old world of ours Is the modern girl and the things she Is trying to do to us DOROTHY DOl OTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |