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Show m i I SOCIAL CAMPAIGN l War and politics have their complex-I complex-I Biles. Both are spoken of as awful ne j( ct.v-. ' i h p,,u there i s another cam-I cam-I pilcn ihat is quite as intricate as Itb S with heart's blood In it though it never called sanguinary and to Lh Amr-rican girl li transcends in interest all t hf- no!s strategies of a quarrel-f quarrel-f liome world This is the social ca-1 ca-1 Alien that begins at various tlmi in wious, latitudes but known conven-I conven-I llonally as belonging to winter, ihouli It begins in the autumn and trails Into ' jthe domain of sprmr People who I Dink the world is full of trouble, who earf.,rrv.r, l.mv. - .mil look .isk.nir. I at pood cheer, may wonder how hearts and hands can turn with so much en Itbusiasm to the taffeta and tiaras and the tea caddies of romance Nevertheless, Never-theless, romance has outlived revolu lions. Who shall say Ihat it is not an elementary necessity of life? Who shall question its aspirations for beauty beau-ty and music and love? Who shall deny that those who live happiness are not as well occupied as those who talk about it? The machinery of life oc eupies so much attention that actual li vin: seems often to be overlooked, and Miss America is pre eminently one who desires to live. If there is to be life, we must pair, and if we must pairj there must be the arena of courtship. Those who study such matters do-' i.i i e thai the winter season now open- o ha 1 B social brillianc.v eclipsing eclips-ing .'ii. winter ol recent years. This I , Indeed, the first season since t bat oj 1913-14, in which society has been able wholl) lo shake itself free of war; for lasl season had no chance to adjust it self to its sudden freedom shadow hunp too close What is described as an orgy of dress in France i- not likely to find a reflection In America here French women seem content to create human pictures, the American pirl seems to prefer activ ii The American winter will be ac tive rather than merely gorgeous if be lievera in the good sense of the American Amer-ican "irl aie not to be disappointed And so, on With the dance Dancing will be a roreraosi medium nr purely social campaigning as femininity fem-ininity sees it. Yet the devices for social entertainment were never more varied than at this hour. Fnquestion-,,bl Fnquestion-,,bl war time experiences hae given ,i new "slant" to the activities i ihe Lime In drawing rooms as well as out ol iluin Charities and "movements" are BO diverse that no one can doubt the picturesqueness of the situations ihey will create. Men who have seen r o will play a part in 1 his season's gatherings to a degree ihat must Bure-ly Bure-ly influence iheir character These men have been "fed up" on war. But ihey have also been brought under liv spell of new personalities. They have aeen another side of the American fdrl Xo one can predict what her experl enci D war hours, and his experience in France are going lo do to their social so-cial life. This will she a no e cast to the social interval now opening, r-ven if it shall be discovered that no ipheaval of the world can manage to change human nature very much. I in ih .,,:.!. r i in i in- ujiuri ui v-itl lUVD WBUB j busj With war receding into the past romance must have its new day rr |