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Show JENNIE'S GREAT PROBLEM Yet Probably It Was Her Parents Who Suffered Suf-fered More From the Same Cause. BY EDNA EGAN. nT3 Y folks never want to let me go iy out and havo a good time," liyj said Jennie. "They seem to think that a girl can go to business all day, then come homo and help got supper and go to bed at 9 ocloclc, perfectly contented, without having any fun or going out with any young folks, I can't stand it, so I think I'll leavo home." Of course, if Jennie is a sensible girl, she hardly needs mo to tell her that she must not leave home but a little review of the conditions oC tho whys and wherefores of the conditions she meets at home may help all the little Jennies to a happier understanding understand-ing of and with the older generation, i -,u mcs Parents are, in all probability, proba-bility, hard-working people. who either come from a country where freedom is practically unknown or who still hold to the ideas of forebears fore-bears who came from such an environment environ-ment Suppose Jennie's parents camo to America when she was a little girl. In whatever land they dwelt, freedom for girls was an unknown thing. The twenty-year-old German or French or Italian or Russian girl who chances not to be married is shut in and protected and guarded just as sho was when sho was fifteen and approaching ap-proaching tho marriageable ago of her laud. Hor marriage was an arranged affair in which the paronls selected her husband for her. She was supposed sup-posed to havo no experience or knowledge knowl-edge of tho world on, which to base any judgment of her own in regard to the arrangement of her life. Under those circumstances It Is -scarcely amazing that Jennie's parents : should fall to assimilate the stand- ards of liberty and independence for young womanhood prevalent in our own country. : Suppose Jennie's parents aro Araer- lean born and come from hard-working stock to which pleasure was hardly hard-ly known, and through whose thrift and frugality Jennie Is able to enjoy a good home and some of Ub comforts They live in their own youth, and cannot can-not understand tho pleasure-loving, : butterfly living standards of today. 3 Perhaps Jennlo's mother and father : are country folk, to whom city ways i are new; perhaps they are poverty 3trlcken souls, who want Jennie to do- i vote herself to work so that she may c rise out of tho tenement environment c where they have to keep her. Any of t hesc suppositions Is far moro likely c :o bo true than the one that lurks In c he back ot Jennie's mind. t What docs Jennie think? She lmag- v itics.that she Is cursed ith tyrannical eiders who hate to see her have a good time and who enjoy bobslng her around and showing their authority. Or sho imagines they are stupid old fogies who can't understand the worjd of to- Perhaps they cannot quite understand under-stand todav. tnJrst for pqlea8eunrd too t6!?!6?11 ,they understand all too well today's dangerous longing for Pleasure at any cost They see Jennie Jen-nie a friend Rose sacrificing all her IZ ua?d, inn.ocent sweetness for a httlo brief gaiety, and they Ion- to protect Jennie and assuro her of fast- Jov bSP nefB inatead of momentary Joj. Their love makes them inartic-uae- They hardly know hV to explain ex-plain themselves to Jennie. They tako it for granted that tho fifth commandment command-ment must mean something to her. And Jennie, with her superior education edu-cation and with tho better chance than had the older generation, judges them Impatiently and thinks they begrydge her youth and joy. Trust your parents, Jennie. Try to convince yourself that it is just aa important im-portant for you to understand them as for them to understand you. Have a little faith in the love that brought you into the world and protected your youth. Respect the experience of your parents pa-rents rather than tho worldly wlBdom of tawdry little Rosle. Don't toBB your head and take the dangerous "youth will havo its fling I am only going to be young once" attitude toward life. The oldor generation has the wisdom wis-dom of Its age and suffering and experience. ex-perience. Convince It that the Joys you seek aro innocent joys. vMako it realize that you do tiko life with a : certain amount of seriousness. And livo at homo where tho conservatism Df tho older generation may guide you i rather than tho dangerous flightiness 3f tho untried new generation. a . i rj APER drinking cup and crepo 4 I HI PaPcr can be made into dainty . IH favor baskets for parties, i First tako tho drinking cup md cut it off from tho top aa deep as i -ou want your basket. Next make ! 'our handle by covering a thin wiro I fflth crepe paper. Sew this onto tho :up. Then tako a piece of crepe pa- )or largo enough to gather around tho I :up and allow for a heading at the top f tho cup. Gather this paper at the l ottom and sew onto tho bottom of tho up. Next sew tho paper onto tha top if tho cup and you havo a very pret- c y basket These baskets are filled, ( rlth salted nut or little candiea, e |