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Show I PETTING PARTIES AND CIGARET6. Are southern girls more modest than ; the girls of the north? Dr. Valeria II. Parker answers that they an- The doctor, by the way. is a woman. She declares the girls of Dixie smoke lew er eigarets. wear longer skirts, drink less liquor and hold fewer "pitting j parties," than girls in other sections. Wo challenge the enrreetness of the statement. The doctor bases her judgment judg-ment on the records of delinquencies cath'-r-'d by th- T " n I ' 1 ;.:. - int.-r department of social and hygiene' board. There is no record of which we I have knowledge of the comparative length of girls' dresses in dlfferenl parLs of this country , or of the num B ber of eigarets smoked or the amount B of liquor consuno B "Petting parties" Is a term quite H new to us the definition of which R should have been presented by Dr. H Parker. Where did Dr, Paiker gel her i close-up view of the "petting partk'"' B The doctor herself must have a fund H 'A information denied to the great ma- H We venture the guess, without any H facts at band, that a greater proper- Bf ion of the girls of New Orleans, where B Dr. Parker was speaking, use clga- H rets than do the girls of Ogdcn or B There is bootlegging In Ogden and jH in Utah, but the Juvenile and other courts do not Rive evidence of the dis- H slpation reaching any great percentage H of the girls of the community Ooca olonally at the dance or in the parks, H liquor finds its way to dissolute young IB women but the average home is not jlH invaded and there Is no sign of a H moral break down In that direction jH Long skirts are no longer a sign H of modesty. Whatever is generally HB accopted and adopted as correct 9H style neither attracts unusual alten- H! Lion or excites improper commenl. |