The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-02-13

woman in the nursery rhyme! dare
say you'll pretend you can't remember
anything % absurdly infant.,e ~ that
% I'll Just remind you Of what she d!d
with her numerous children:
She gave them some cruel without
any bread.
Then spanked them all soundly ana put
them 70 bed!"
There-thAt's what I would have your
parents do! wonder how many enc
mics have made now! am sure l
don't want to. though. But then you
are a.! so sweet. under your absurd
nonsense. that you can't really be cross.
can you! Besides. it's Just q game you
tending to be grown UP. The only trou.
Bile 10 that II you pretend all the time.
a. you do. one fins morning you'll sud.
denly wake UP to the fact that II isn't
pretense any longer and thcn you'll cry
your pretty eyes out because you won't
really like being srown-up when you've
got to be.
PretInse 10 fun. but sober earnest 10
horridi
Dear Miss New York wherever you
are and II It applies 10 you. for. Of
courss. ! am sure lots o; you are not
a. silly a. your s'sters). did you look
at yourself to-day as you walked down
Fifth avenue? ! wish you had taken
one peep at your face In the little
mirror that goes with the powder pun
IN your vanity bag! You would have
seen that your pretense was making
you look very foolish. The bitterly cold
wind had made your cheeks naturally
rosy and the messy, artificial stun that
was plastered on your skin didn't match
the real roses at all You looked 50
ridiculous. you really did, with your
p.ebald cheeksI then, too, your saucy,
tip-t!lted nose showed up all pink from
Jack Frost's kiss under the pear! pow
der that was SO very white. Dc you
realize that you pretend very badly7
NEW Yonk GIRLS MAKE UP 90
CLUMslLY.
You make up - clumsiiy, my poos
little lady, that YOU look like a bur-
lesqua actress made up for the foot
lights would look II she suddenly ap-
peared In broad daylight without re-
moving her paint. But there--perhaps
It's ali the better you should be clumsy.
1t shows what an ignorant little baby
you ara really, although you pretend
to know suoi q lot about It all! II 1t
wasn't almost piuful 1t would be
scrsamingly funny to watch you, Miss
New York. a. you strut down tbs street.
for all the world az II you owned the
ethyl Your poor little knees, under
that grotssqusly tight skirt, are knock
ing together with the cold, bsca use the
money you ought to have spent on .
sood wasm coat You vent and wasted
on q rabbits cared hat and q SGT Of
cats skins IN disguise, In order to carry
out q pretense game Of helms Gaby
Dsslys, wearing priceless Sabiss,
When Pretenss makes YOU play the
idiot like that irs asarlv time 10 Stvs
II the ooiA shouldss, isn't W By pre-
tsDAiuG to b Grown Up sad BY wearing
siumsily copied Ssrmsnu men on the
stage yen ~ throwlnS yeuy present
chaaSss await IN tell vou Wy. vyoehs
fos voung Stsis we're mover pssttisy
than they sss ut present Every one
must agree TO that SlRcs you ere, OF
would be " emily pen 10, yourself, an
exquisite young giri, Miss Neg Iae.;,
WON'T be able to In three years tiae,
NOW " rsur chance to wssS thsm, vsu
for by then you viii have 10 De q
sober, earnest, Grown Up aad ssas tho
garments veur drsssuasksr decrsesl
Wen, don't We all, women and slrls
~ over the 'sssth, say every year,
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