Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-05-27
FllppANcY IN GIRLS
sy BARBARA BOYD.

tits all very WELL, the quiet giri
vas saving to the little group OF IN.
innate friends, "for mother and aunt
and qrandmother to insist On a girls
being ladylike and retiring and mod.
,st and all that. But if she does, she
gets left"
whats the trouble, PhoebeT
,horused the group.
mo particular trouble" blthely re-
turned Phoebe. But was just think
ing .such advice is out Of date. If
girl takes it nowadays, it'll make hei
waIlfower and eventually an old
maid, or, 1 suppose l should say, bach
alor girl"
Something has gone wrong" sale
enc of the girls sageiy
did you know Sue Dickinson is
married again." asked Phoebe.
mol" calculated the others. WHO
.o?"
Kenneth Leaverett.
You don't mean IT.!
Eyes I do. And that's what set me
10 thinking upon old-time advice. IL
spite of everything her parents said,
she ran away, you remember, and mar
ried Ned Willoughby. Then she quar-
relied with him and finally got 9
divorce. And now In less than year
she is married again. And here arc
ill of us, quiet, ladylike, well-brec
girls, hanging yet Oh the parental
STEM" 49,
HUH" said one Indignantly. y
wouldn't want to marry either Ned
Willoughby or Kenneth Leayerett."
THAT may be-" replied Phoebe,
"But even ii you had, you wouldn't
have had the chance You're not for
ward enough. don't want to get Into
personalities, she said hastily, as she
saw a CLEAN in the other girls eye
I'm just drawing deductions. AS
sou know, l was invited to a house
party last week, out at Whitr:ay's per-
tectly supe!b home. And WHO do you
think was the most popular girl there
quist, well-bred little me or charming
Alice Markham? Not bit Of it. II
.as a loud, giggling individual who
talked constantly, laughed constantly
oiavcd Jokes on the men, kept herself
IN every way possible in the center
Of the stage. The men simply hockco
around her. They lowered over her like
ices over a flower. And the rest OF
us sat off in well-bred and ladylike
nviet and talked to each other
"rhat sort Of thing doesn't last
observed one.
"She had q good time willis 1t die
last, though. And that's more thar
the rest of us did"
II wouldn't care for the attentions
of men like that said another.
ooh, they were good enough, as mol
TO-" replied Phoebe. You have t
take them as they are. You CAM
make them to order"
III seems to me, then" said
fourth. that the men are to blame
for all the forwardness and fippanc1
n girls, and the way they dress ant
-: the other things they do that the!
houdn't. It would be sort of com
:crtable to blame the men for 1t all
wouldn't it,
They won't care quoth Phoebe
They'll 20 right on showerinS al
their attentions on the girl with The
;; most false hair and the biggest hat'
and the highest skirts and TIT
readiest laugh. whether there is any
thing to laugh at or not"
Let Them" interrupted another
There's something more to liz
than merely pleasing the men. II
prefer refinement and good breedin:
and good taste, or think they 81:
right and their opposites wrong, l an
not going to throw them over merel!
TO win masculine favor. I think w
ought to get down to the bedrock fac
of what is right and worth while. no
merely 70 whether our conduct vii
win fieeting popular favor. We wan
those things in our character that arr
going to give us lasting satisfaction
And, believe ME, none of us her'
woulS fLpd lasting satisfaction in thu
regard Of men who like vulgarity II
dress and manner. And, believe ME
foo. the incest men don't. And ever
II they seem to for little while. 1t i:
either cut OF idle curiosity, or to pri
in time, or mere passing fancy
III stick 20 the adviccs Of mothers alt
aunts and grandmotlevs. They have
been observing human nature much
longer time than we have, and they
know how it wears
Well" said Phoebe. "I suppose the
girl with high standards OF conduc'
is CT more value to society than the
girl without them. And l suppose II
Is worth while to be OF some value
somewhere
And Id rather haze my self
Iesrcct," said another. than the a, en-
;icn Of dozen men for doing some
thing that l thought beneath NC"
Sergeant Didn't "Sabuy."