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Show : PREACHER SAYS MODERN GIRL IS "01" Even Though She Calls Her Dad "Old Bean." It's Nothing Noth-ing Against Her. Says Maude Royden By EARLE C REEVE8, Intrnat onal News Service Staff Correspondent LONDON Oct u. The modern girl is strictly and most completely all right, even if she doe? all her dad "old bean." M- Maude Royden, famous woman preacher, know ihem bj unnumbered thousands and she says so. Rev, David Scotcher, a bold man of courage, raised a question and a Storm when he accused Ihe modern girl of sitting on the edge of the 1 table, crossing her legs, smoking cigarettes ami addressing her father gs ''some k inri of vegetable . VEGCTftB'.E NAMES The bold levercnd. who vis mod-1 i ei n enough to refer to the modern ciri brazenly as a biped she crossed her 'A balked al mentioning the I ; exact nature of the vegetable," but be n ferrod to the maidenly habit of , llllng di d "old bean." 'Evrn if they do those thing-, wh ' Bhouldn'l they?" aks Miss Royden. "1 have a ery large proportion of! young grb :n mj congregation and I have si en lot of girls connected With the student movement, nd they Impress hip a: an exceeding! fine set 1 of people. I al.-o met thousands of factory girls during ihe war. "They are full of new ideas, of course. But I have always been struck by then loyalty to their par-cnts. par-cnts. HOLD CRITICISM "It is a new world we are living in and we certainly are up aeains' great problems. But surely it is the duty of elder people (o help the girls so far as they can instead of unload ing condemnation on them all the i Mme. "Girls of all kinds are on -o much better terms with their parents than ' iney used to be. They treat them more like friends. "The young girl of today Is not expected to be the finished woman of the world her mother was ;,t seventeen sev-enteen She is much less self-cou-BCiouS I think Ihe best way ol summing -'p the matter is that al though she may have less 'manner' she has more 'manners.' " |