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Show FINDS HER POSITION CHANGED Mother of Young .Girl Expla'n, H She Is Being "Mothered" by Her Daughter. In an article In the Woman's Horn. Companion on "The Girl of Sev teen" this mother says: eD" "She is just past seventeen years or age, is sweetly pretty, Innocent rl fined, intelligent, talented and i, blessed with an open mind, particular ly receptive, just now, to all up-t, fla," Ideas in the way of dress fads, mh, stunts, ragtime melodies, jazz band new dances and late coiffures. She is! in two words, my daughter, a lovely child of the period just arrived at thi 'know it all' age, and represents the average daughter of this day, a replica of the daughters of other mothers. "As for me, I am her mother, necessary neces-sary to her as a housekeeper ani pursekeeper, also an admiring audi-ence audi-ence of one for this very independent young person. A few years ago I added add-ed to these titles those of mentor guide, teacher and comforter, but, to be a bit slangy, within the past rear I have lost my job and have fallen from my high estate as leader and manager to the second in command. In fact, the tables have swung completely com-pletely around and where, only a short time ago, I mothered my baby girl, it is I who am now being daughtercd, who am being trained to look npon life not as a sedate mother person twice and a little more the years of my daughter, but with the eyes of youthful youth-ful seventeen, who am being skillfully and tactfully imbued, by my very own child, with the latest ideas in regard to living. I am being lovingly required, re-quired, nay, sweetly compelled, to change by ideas and opinions so that they may conform to hers." |