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Show i YOUNG PEOPLE NOW AND THEN Addressing an Audience In Utah, the famous novelist and story writer, Joseph Jo-seph Hergesheinuer, said tho women of the cast are more interesting than j the men, but the men of the west are more interesting than the women of the west, "becauit they are more evident. evi-dent. In the east tho life is strangled by the daring petticoat ' Fifth ave nue is a procession of feminine domi 1 nance." He said that this is his first I trip to me west, and that he finds j the west finer than novels of the west picture it It is difficult to understand why men and women, moving in (he same circles and influenced by the same en- Ivironment should ditrer in ihe mat ter of being interesting. It may be the critic who sees obliquely and that his Judgment Is warped by his moods. Of course the men of the west will accept the compliment and invite the novelist to repeat. Dealing with the young people of to day, he says they "know everything and feci nothing." He defined the modern "flapper" as a girl who wears her skirts at uncertain lengths, doesn't buy her own soda water, and makes a date with five boys at 12:16 and then forgets to shew up. However, How-ever, he declared that "the modern flappers, if by this la meant the flip pant girls, are no different from those of the past, but they know a lot more than they feel " There are as many kinds of young people as there are differences in home. Some of our boys and girls may be frivolous, but the great major ity of them are as good as the genera tions of the past. They may laugh more, find more amusement, see more in life than did the young people of long ago, and at the same time be possessed of as much sentiment and sympathy. |