The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-18

adays. Not all women, you know. Very
few, thank heaven. Still, the thing is grow
ing.
4 don't believe golf is responsible for il.
1t seems TO me the thing is only a part of
the mania for mannishness, the jolly good
fellow idea.
"WOmanly standards have been turned
tOpsy-turvy in late years. Girls haven't he
old ideals of the proper thing and there
isn't any definite well-defned new model.
so there's a lot Of experimenting going on.
Liberty Is so likely TO mean license, you
know.
Women think II is knowing and wagg
TO be emancipated, and some of them
don't have the discretion TO see where good
taste draws the line in the Emancipation.
The fast young woman has had a certain
vogue.
Her brusque ofenses against conven-
tiOnalty have been called originality. She
amused men. Other girls thought her clever
and saw that she seemed popular, so they
picked up her mannerismS.
I've an idea the swearing began among
a certain set of young married women. 1t
isn't altogether American. I've heard quite
as much Of il in London as l ever heard
here.
'It's really a very inferior order of pro-
family. you know. 1t shows a pitiful lack
OF both experience and imagination. Damn
and hell seem TO be the Alpha and Omega
Of feminine profanity.
i don't know whether the women don't
know anything worse, or are merely afraid
TO go IL for anything stronger. l suppose
there's nothing remarkably sinful about
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Il fancy the thing began in a mistaken
idea OF humor. Women thought there was
something amusing IN saying damn In
stead of gracious, when they burned
themselves on their curling irons or toozied
a drive. The ~incOngruity OF the thing on
the lips of a charming woman made the
average man smile, even II he disapproved.
when 1 first began 10 notice the swear
ing only the very exceptional glrI or woman
perpetrated il. but the thing has spread.
and / know any number OF women VINO are
a very nice sort in most ways. but who
damn quite freely. It's atrocloGsIy pad
form. It's vulgar. something ought 10 DC
done to stop it
New York man with a record as squire
OF DANES echoed the verdict.
yes. damn does seem TO be coming into
fashion among young women. 1 don't know
that golf ; responsible. Just judging from
personal Experience. l don't see how 4
golfer can get along without occasional
cuss words, or an explosion, but l suppose
IL can be done
i've heard more girls use forcible Ian
guage on the links than anywhere else. but
perhaps that's just a happen so. \ fellow
doesn't like IT, Your athletic girl IS all right
/ don't insist upon your dropping lily type,
but I'm not strong on the girl who talks
college SLAMS, and when she begins golng IN
for 1angwidge' YOU can just count me out
Il went out with a girl in her auto last
week and up on Riverside the machine
baked. The girl looked tired. She was aw-
fully pretty and feminine and attractive.
You'd have expected her 70 say. on. dear!
What can be wrongg n she did say
was.
Now. what in hell is the matter with
that battery
"She said IL quite calmly, quite specu-
latively. ~I-gasped.
Then the other night / was going into
the theater with a tremendously swell
Young matron who was chaperOning a
PARTY. She tripped and walked up the front
Of her skirt. Something went Zip.
Oh, damn it, said the cnaperon, cheer
fully.
Nobody seemed 10 notice IL. / don't know
why they do IL. Think IL fetching and