Show MODESTY AND MODERN GIRLS few years ago public speaking by young women and athletics would have been tabooed addressing an audience of 0 girls at the charities conference miss beulah kennard made this declaration twentieth century girls are less lesa modest than any since the days ot of louis louia XVI not many years ago the ot of the shrinking violet which vas a as associated with nith timidity and expressed by demurely downcast eyes mas aaa a model followed b young women omen of that period they were expected to taint faint at moments ot of stress and it Is to be presumed that they did dd r tinting has g gi i it dt ot of fa ailon the telephone girl in the austin flood who mho stuck to her a s Itch board sending out warnings to the people ot of the town while she herself faced death was mas no exception to the rule ot of these times the level gaze of the unafraid h his is displaced downward glances of timid modesty A few ears ago public by girls at public gatherings and the sort of athletics now common in colleges tor for yemen women would have been thought immodest it may be as miss kennard says that girls show less modesty than their sisters of other times but who is there who says that I 1 tn twentieth century girls and their standards are less admired and less worthy of ad mi ration 9 cleveland plain dealer |