Evening star., 1912-11-03

the accomplishments of the young dancing
and Society men one meets these times.
Any young man can get into New York
Society who has college affiliations and
"coin, and he need not have SO much OF the
latter commodity. Males from the age OF
sixteen up must be supplied by the dozen
for dances. Many of these youths have had
"money to burn" since they were infants
They were under little or no restraint. Dur
ing their nursery days they were little saw
ages, and they are not yet completely civil
lied. In the ultrawealthy set, strange to
say, precautions are taken, and the scions of
these houses are early trained and made to
realize that grave responsibilities will be
theirs at maturity.
There has been some criticism concerning
the bringing up OF young girls IN this set,
especially at Aiken, ut Newport, and on Long
Island. They seem too "horsy in their riding
to hounds, hurdle jumping, and mounting
astride. But their interest in sports IN the
open, in racing, in polo, in Horse Shows, in
golf, and in tennis, is healthy, they are
carefully watched, and they are much more
unsophisticated than those of the more re-
cent recruits and aspirants. Perhaps of late
a number of the Newport and Long Island
set men have taken wives out of their class,
because this freer manner fascinated them
AND the girlsl They have been brought
up in the most expensive and fashion
able finishing schools, with the same am
bitions as the boys. They must make their
friendships stepping stones to social ad
vancement. These schools are only luxuri-
Gus homes, and many of them promote the
spirit of snobbery to even a greater degree
than the college societies. The young women
are allowed much liberty, and the chaperons
provided for them can often be induced to
close their eyes. 1t is quite different from
other eras, when the young women were
obliged to pay much attention to serious
studies and to pretty accomplishments, but
to be simple and unaffected. Now many OF
these schools have yearly entertainments in
the big bathrooms of hotels. Ballet and fancy
dancing and burlesque of mild quality are
given. The girls are advertised like mem
bers of a Broadway troupe, the graduates,
it must be acknowledged, having the prefer
ence, their photographs are taken in varl
Gus poses and published in the newspapers.
A Southern woman. the mother OF three
young daughters, said to the writer last
autumn, when returning t. Ter own city
after a Newport summer, 81 cannot have my
girls here next year. Why, | caught two of
them making up their lips and their faces.
rubbing rouge and lip paint over skin that
mas the natural TINT OF tnc rose. ana Wnen
| demonstrated they replied that all the girls
did it, and that one could not be in the
fashion unless she painted.
This is a little thing, but it is significant.
The girls as well as the boys are quite up to
the latest fads of Broadway. In fact, the
Turkey Trot and dances Of that kind were
done by everybody in society two years ago,
and their final adoption was only by process
of actual growth. All the girls learned the
Balkan Princess, Madame Sherry, Merry
Widow style of dancing, as well as the
Apache and the Moulin Rouge, and their
parents thought it clever and all right SO long
as the excuse was made in the words of the
vulgar popular song of the day, Every
bodys Doing It,, everybody in this case
meaning all those in Society.
THUS New York has come into the Chill
dren's Century. 1t is a revolution; for
the absolute rulers are as they have been in
the nursery, on the playground, on the col
lege campus, in the fashionable Young ladies'
school, at the resorts, watering places, and
at home, since they were able to take notice
Naturally they are wilful, spoiled, absolutely
without manners, rude, and with no rever-
ence for older persons. How could this be
otherwise when their very literary pap has
been the colored supplement "where a boy
has to hit his grandfather on the head with
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