Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-08
GIRL 5 FAULT rs
AND VIRTUES.

The faults and virtues OF that new
product of society, the good fellow
girl. were discussed very emphaticallyI
in the New York World Of Sunday, and
faults were the more conspicuous feat
iures.
The girl was held up to scornS and de-
rision and was set down as sad sort
of commentary on this age and what 1t |
does for the Trailer sex.
Former Senator Ingalls, and Mrs.
Russell Sage were the most bitter as
sailants OF the young lady who is
known as a good fellow" and they at
tack her and her methods in no uncer-
tain tones.
Mrs. d. j. Hill, wife OF the first as
5sistant secretary OF state. and Mrs. W.
p. Frye, wife OF the senator, also said
unkind things OF the girl who does odd
things in the belief that in acting re-
markedly she will be labeled good
fellow
These old fashioned persons admit
that they are old fashioned, and they
say very bluntly that the girl who is a
good fellow has to take very good
care lest she becomes bad fellow
and lose respect while she is gaining
a certain kind OF admiration.
To the rescue Of the good fellow"
girl, however, came Miss Jeanette L.
Glider and Mrs. George L. Shrady.
These two think that the wild, odd,
freaky and uncertain acting young
lady who earns the title of good fell
low is all right, and that she means
Well and does nothing that is reallyl
bad. There are some saving clauses,
however. in the praise Mrs. Shrady
and Miss Glider give to the person un-
der discussion, and they don't go to the
extreme in praise Of her as her foes do 4
in giving her blame.
The good fellow girl is a product
OF modern society" said Mrs. Sage.
There could not possibly be any con-
geniality or even sympathetic interest
between me and this fin de steele
creature.
Twas not a good fellow when was
young. Yet had q good time. / was
bridesmaid nine times, which shows
that I was neither friendless nor neg
lected. and I entered into all the So
ciety pleasures of the other 5oung peo-
pie. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
but there wasn't a good fellow girl
among us.
Since that time this new kind of a
girl has come upon the social horizon
She plays tennis and golf. She talks
about horses like fjockey she is
proud of her slang Vocabulary. She
isn't easily shocked She rides wheel
in abbreviated skirts. She smokes al
|scigaret if she feels like IT..
In truth, she has lost the sweetness
|reansment and dignity that makes
womanhood beautiful.
Some men Will like her free manners
and speech. She will doubtless get
married, because she will have no l1esi-
tation in helping the man along If he
seems at all backward. She is not
hampered by any traditions of the past.
She boasts that she has cast aside the
shackles that bound her sex. She be-
lieyes that she revels in a newly found
and delicious freedom. She does not
know that many of the men who find
her companionable do not admire her.
Nor do 1 think they would call her
\ their ideal of what a wife and mother
should be. Too often she loses their
Prospect and wins thing in return
AS one man once said Of girl OF
this type:
She is good comrade, but I
gwouldn' want her for Wife
To my way of thinking, the old
fashioned girl can never be improved
upon. She was gentle, home loving
and home making and she was very;
sweet and lorabie. She could not tool
coach. She did not know any slang
She wouldn't have ridden wheel un-
der any circumstances, and she would
have scorned to be thought one Of the
1 boys. Aud she won measure of re-
lspect, admiration. love and homage of
which, any woman might we'll be proud.
/ 4 am glad to say that there are still
many girls like her May the good fell
low girls, reign be short
| Mr.. ingalls,, as usual, was bitter. He
4 looked at the very darkest side of the
picture, saying
The doctrines of female suffrage
and the equality of the sexes are un-
4 dermining the foundations of our so
4 cial structure. Their advocates call II
reform.
1T seems more like REVOLUTIONS They
are substituting the hotel and the club
A for the home comradeship for. marriage
\ and bohemianism for domestic life.
With wealth. leisure and luxury. they
are establishing a social code that de-
mands fidelity only to those who are
faithless and that forgives everything
in a woman except old fashioned good
ness.
i "A fatalscontagion infects our society
land portends individual degeneration
ard national decay. No nation can long
survive a loss of moral integrity or the
4 sanctity Of the home. No one can OBJ
a service without alarm the Invasion OF
.sour country by this foreign pestilenct
Il and the amazing changes that are go
4 ing on in the social condition.
Il "A delIge of French and English sew.
s(sge is polluting literature. art ana thu
4 stage. Plays clarifying inf6elity, max.
l,ing marriage a jest and sneering at vir-
d tue as rustic pruderr are supplemented
Isby numberless sex and problem novels
il that treat natures hottest mysteries
u With the brutal candor of the clinic an6
u the iissectirg table. Eager, throngine
i m,iltitudes listen to sucn plays as The
4 Degenerates and 'Sapho' and The Tur.
4 ;le.' 1t is a prodigious task to lift a
man, community from barbarism int
4 enlightenment and civilizations, and {
Z. still greater task to keep him or it there
i Their tendency Is to relapse. The gravi
tation is to the gutter. 1t requires tn,
consta1t, active operation of the con
4 sservative forces Of religion education
!, laws, habits and customs 20 maintain