Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1913-07-18
Significant Conduct of Young Women.

significant (OnOuCL OF young WOn1eIl.
For several years we have had our opinions
concerning the inevitable results of the new
woman" as the term first began to be applied
number of years since. about the time the
agitation for change in dress began to be heard
from few club women 1t was within period
of few yeras that several innovations for
women were introduced and whose adoption
quickly followed their practice by society lead
ers, among them, riding astride, departure
from the custom of generations, a little later the
introduction of articles of wearing apparel of the
masculine Sort and following in quick success
sion, the demand for boomers" then trousers
(Which have not yet been adopted, however),
then the short skirt then the hobbe skirt, the slit
skirt, and so on, each change showing plain
appeal to the sensual instincts.
Although these various changes and innova-
tions have been brought about by women, men,
that is hubsands and fathers. have relied upon
their wives and mothers to keep proper restric-
tion on such things as the dress and conduct of
of the members of their own sex, and conse-
quently have attempted no supervision over these
matters.
However, conditions have reached such a
stage that the leading papers of the country are
taking up the question and urging that men take
a hand in correcting some Of the evils which
spring up to the injury and detriment of the
race 1t is alleged that the modest thinking and
acting woman of the good old days. is no longer
anything but memory, hence men must take III
these questions which should be the concern of
the feminine portion of the race. TIE August
Pictorial Review. an influential paper that claims
million readers. has the follw Ding to say re-
specting this question::
''What of your daughters musical taste?
She's in the parlor now, entertaining caller
with the very latest songs. And you are beating
time with your foot as you read, There's a
strange lift to that ragtime stuff, Ell? But forget
the tune and catch the words
'Honey-man sigh for you
With my lips to yours, | could die for YOU -
Or:
wait till get you alone in the dark
In nice little, shady, little, corner of the
park
Yes; that's your daughter the little girl who
such short while back sat on your knee Juggling
at your mustache searching your pockets for
chocolates. How much of that sensual doggerel
does she understand? Perhaps she is only
charmed by the lift of the rollicking tune that
has set even YOUR feet going. You are not sure,
but you know that when she has gone to bed
you'll confscate the song and burn it.
No GOO, Mr.. Father Her music cabinet is
hled with more OF the same sort, and If you burn
the lot, she'll hear the songs wherever she goes
along that sheltered path you are strewing with
roses for her.
By'thiS time you have worked yourself up to
a fine moral frenzy You are just waiting for
your wife to come home. You mean to tell her
what you think of the way she has brought up
her daughter. Don't! Just stop and realize that
the girl is your daughter, too. You are halfway
responsible for her bringing up as well as her
existence. And particularly are you responsible
for what she knows does not know of that
phase of life which was probably an open book to
you before you ever met and knew her mother
Your wife, thanks to her parents and to you, has
led the sheltered life You have proudly felt that
you have screened her from lot of know ledge
that would do her no good. Blind. adoring mother
that she is, she honestly believes that times are
changing and that her daughter must change
with it Sometimes she is bit shocked at what
her daughter says, but she is assured by glib
speakers before her club that the modern girl