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Show I Dorothy Dix Talks I By DOROTHY UIX. the World's Highest Paid Woman Writer POOR LITTLE EVE In former days, mothers laid awake at nights trying to devise ways to protect their innocent little daughters daugh-ters against the wiles of bold, bad. wicked men Nowaday!". the IhlnK that gives mothajnl insomnia is .attempting .at-tempting to dope out some method of safeguarding their unsophlstlcat od sons against the amp!ng of flappers. At least that w15 the consensus of the opinion of several mothers clubs which have recently held sessions, and which turned In an almost unanimous verdict Indicting the modern young girl ajj the villain of society Thy declared that she was responsible tor the present day immodest dress, for the prevalence of "petting parties," and that she incited the boys to joy rides and cxt ta aga nr e, and all matter mat-ter of foolishness, and that no mother's moth-er's little male lamb was safe with her. That's right, blame all the boys' fnu'ts on the girls! Teach your boys to hide behind the nearest skirt, and put up the old Adamite exeue. "The woman thou gavest me She did it But how slIH, and how unjust, to lay all tho follies of the youth of today to-day at the girl's door, for there is no mature woman, who has seen anything any-thing of life, who does rml know that women aro what men make them, and that every girl spends her life trying to look, and dress, and uct so as to please men Women accept men as they are, because they have to. for men are literally the lords of creation. A man dots not have to adapt himself lo women He Is nol compelled to dross to pleaae their tastes. He does not have .-hape his manners according' to their Ideal- He does not have to feign an Interest in their pursuits. He does not have to put up with re-male re-male bores, nor dan e with fat la- dies who step all over his fect, and muss up his clothes Because if one woman doesn't like his looks, and his manners, he can hunt up another one who is less critical crit-ical Ho can pick and choose nnion I women, and make his own selection I Instead of having to lake what Is Of-I j fered lo him. He doe .n't have to! attract all the women he meets on the J off chance that the one he will really I care for will be In the crowd I But a girl who wants to have at- tentlon from men who desires to I have a good time, nnd eventually to j marry, has to conform to the mas-, i cullne ideal. She has got to be and fto do the things that catch the masculine mas-culine fancy at the time being. If she doesn't the men turn their thumbs down for her, and she had as well hie her to a nunnery, or get a good self-supporting job for tho balance bal-ance of her life. In all history there is nothing els, more interesting than the way Inj which women have changed to meet tho demands and tastes of men . In I the times when man used to go off on crusades, and be absent from , home for years at n time and when they wanted to know that their wives! were kept at home, a woman would spend her lifetime, happy and -con- . - tented, spinning and embroidering among her maidens behind her castle cas-tle doors. Now when men want women companions com-panions on the golf links, or huntlnt expeditions, we have tho athletic wo-! wo-! man who can tramp miles without 1 turning a hair, and shoulder her gun ! with the best sportsman. When man admired delicacy and I tragi! t) In ri woman, we had women ! who fainted at the sight of a mousi. I and who made a cult of invalidism. 1 rsow. when men will have nothing to do with sickly women, you never i -ee a woman swoon, or hpar one ad-! ad-! mit 10 being sick. At the beginning of the war w, 'had butterfly women who, when men ' needed women to help them, turned ' Into heroic nurses, and ranteen-workers. ranteen-workers. who never flinched und.-: fire Thee things never -hange Women ilways live up to mens blue china ;irls are Just as nearly what men want them to be as the an possibly possi-bly make themselves. Adam does his own apple eating. nnd If hi mother is honest she will blame hlni and not poor little Eve for it. Mothei doesn't approve of the wnv i Eve dresses Well. I would Just like I to s-e her get her precious lltUo Adam to Kp wit hsome k r 1 tnfno dr sses as mother did when she was a girl. Why there are no such critics of feminine clothes in the world as jellybean jelly-bean youths, whose own raiment Is a matter Of prayerful concern A gill might have every virtue and charm In the world, but If she didn't have the latest bob to her hair, or her skirt was an Inch too long or too short or she didn't dross so as to at tract the attention or the other coys, no youthful Romeo could be hired to go near her Mother doesn't approve of girls going go-ing out without a chaperons Bve would have Just one beau, her first and her last if Adam had lo drag her mother along with him to placi g of amusement. Mother doesn't approve of the giddy gid-dy way in which tp flappers con-dut con-dut t jLhemselves Dei mother attempt to make her Innocent little Adam pav atti ntion to some nice, quiet, sedate girl. Wild horses couldn't drag hlni to see her more than once, and he expresses in no uncertain terms his .iniiion of the lemons molhei picks out Mother doesn't approve of Ihe free and easy companionship between the. sexes. Their familiarities horrify her. She thinks it indecent for a girl to let a boy kiss her, and she asks if there are no more modest girls left. To which little Eve cynically replies that If there are. they haven't any beaux, and that men won t stand for prunes and prisms In these times. And Eve knows her business now, as she has always known It throughout through-out the ages, because she has always adapted hetelf to man So if anybody any-body is to blame for modern conditions condi-tions it is the men Not the poor llt-tlo llt-tlo flappers. |