The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-09
WHAT HAS BECOME
OF MISS SIXTEEN?

|
out OF lucky real estate ventures,
/ franchises or inventions. Fathers
absorbed in new ventures; mothers
+ learning the trick OF spending what
fathers earn-and in the hands Of
! Miss Sweet Sixteen the lilies dying.
What does your daughter wear?
! Clothes that inculcate modesty? Hard
ly!
A member of the Pictorial Review
staff was sent to find out what young
rls are wearing. She did not go
to the shops supported by the social
ly exclusive, but to stores patronized
by middle class, prosperous mothers.
Here Is what she found most popular
for girls in their teens, bound for
mountain and shore: Small editions
or limitations of what smart" and
dashing matrons and widows are
choosing-split skirts to be worn ov-
err spider web silk stockings and no
petticoats; waists of lace and net
so thin as scarcely to veil the
shadow lace lingerie worn beneath;
pumps cut low in the vamp. with
dazzling buckles and even sparkling
heels sporting coats in garish colors
and blatant stripes instead Of simple
sweaters; evening frocks so tight OF
skirt as to make even the Bunny Hug
a dangerous dance, and bathing suits
not OF modest, line enveloping fan
mel and serge. but of silk which clings
when wet, the very quintessence OF
suggestiveness All the sartorial wea-
pons of the Oriental siren .offered to
Miss Sixteen! Small wonder she is
woman among men before her
hCur!
A brilliant woman Of the world,
who recently sailed from America,
remarked with regret, 81 saw young
girls only among your very rich and
exclusive old families. They alone
dress their girl children simply and
properly, as the aristocrats of Europe
still dress theirs. Your Ameican girl
of moderate circumstances initiates
in dress the music hall singer who
haunts her intrigues and her extreme
costumes on the same stage. Tell
this girl that she should not dress
in this outrageous fashion, and she
says you might as we'll be dead as
behind the times. She is not even
of the times, but ahead of them
poor, ignorant, absurd little crea
ture!"
There is something very sweet and
appealing about the slim indefinite
figure of a girl, even in the awkward
age, with the hint of slowly develop
ing lines. But deck 1t out in the
trappings of the wanton, in the gar
ish semi precious stones of the har-
EN-, yes the powder and rouge splash
of the beauty parlor, and the poor,
distorted little creature becomes a
caricature of tender budding seXhood
over which her own parents may
we'll weep in shame.
What are your daughters reading?
Ask the public librarians who, If they
be thinking women, woulG gladly cen
sor the books they must distribute
to young girls.
Recollect how you used to laugh
when you found your sisters crying
over the Elsie Books, St. Elmo The
Wide Wide World, Dora Thorn and
East Lynne? You wouldn't laugh to-
day If you would come home uneXpec.
teddy some afternoon and find your
seventeen year old daughter reading
wde.eyed, such books as The Yoke,
Three Weeks, and The House of Bon
dage. Doubtless you would snatch the
book from her hand set match to
it; but the five cent circulating lib
rary at the corner drug store Will
supply another copy or her chum Will
lend her one.
During the past theatrical season
a splendid and artistic production of
Little Women has been touring the
country A woman friena OF mine
who laid the foundations of her lit
erary taste in Louisa Alcott's books
happened to stop in a small Pennsyl-
vania city during the run of Little
Women. She dropped in to the Sat
| urday matinee and found the theater
crowded with women-women Of her
own generation, grand mothers, mo-
| theirs and aunts, laughing and crying
with Meg, 10, Beth and Amy. The
grandchildren, children and nieces of
these women were sitting dry eyed
and bored. At rival theater a
cheap dramatization of The Common
| Law was being played, That house