Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-12

touches OF what is called the ultra styles
in women's clothes. corseted to the hour
glass point: caught In. straightforward.
hainessed. hobbled.
And womens hats. Hats that fall so
far over their faces-a charity. come TO
think OF IT. considering their makeup
70 conceal every restige uisp OF
hair. or else towering crazy hats, feath-
er-peaked. that are bad enough on women
grown. but young girls are merely
saddering.
SILK -stockinGed. nearly al Of them.
What bills the fathers of young girls IN
New York. fathers snagging out merely
average incomes, most of them must
be, must have to pay for silk stockings
And. almost to a girl. high heels. upon
which they walk and wabbe precarious-
~. Figures. as | have writ. sk.mpy.
nearly emaciate: showing that the mad
ness OF the elders OF their sex 10 keep
the natural flesh within absurd iimita-
fions has also trapped the girls. Hardly
ever a hearty. buxom. literally fieshed
girl in sight. Their hair tucked up under
their lud crous headgear. braid, rarely.
Their eyes calm. keen. searching. sophis-
ticate with an inquiring wisdom that
would learn more and more always: little
or no laughter but condolences whisper
cd between them. and no girlish chatter:
that would be In no conformity with
their imitation OF the grown women.
Addressed by their elders. they speak
with hard precision: nothing sponta-
neous.. flowing. ripping from the center
Of unbrulsed. happy natures, just grown
up talk. proceeding not alone patty but
dogmaiically from the lips of young girls
with their dresses at or above their shoe
tops.
Now. these children must depart from
and return To their homes looking that
way They can't fix themselves so hor-
ribly on the street
Where. then. are their parents? 1t is
the natural question, one not suggested
by the least sense OF mere smugness, but
by the plainest sense OF near wholesome
ness. Where. for example. are their
mothers? Even If the. mothers them
selves. SO pitifully often is the case.
are bedaubers and smearers of their
countenances indulgers in veritable
alterations of phantasmic and general
investiture. can Ii be reasonably sup
willing that their young daughters shall
front the world so disrnally of the pat
tern from every human. natural concep-
ton of what young girls. to their ex-
teriors. should be? There is nothing else
for II: II simply must be so supposed.
The girls couldn't so bedight themselves
without the permission OF the mothers
+. S.-Where are the fathers? Very
often, even when the mother is fooled or
wheedled. or merely careless. It's no
simple matter to fool the dad. The dad
knows what's what as to the way the
young daughter should look: he does not
brush elbows with the world up to the
marry ng point without having picked up
that elemental knowledge. Where is the
New York father of young daughters?
i. =. Sand, when 1t come to that.
where are the brothers? Brothers, in this
country. are not OF the bullying sort over
their sisters, as they are In some other
countries that might be named-England,
for example. But the elder brothers In
this country. all the same. do keep sort
of a wise and wary eye on the general
ensemble. TO speak. OF their sisters;
the brothers also knowing what Is what