Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-11
FuPPANCY INT GIRLS
Ry BARBARA s BOYD.


innate friends, "for mother and aunt
and grandmother to insist or 2 girls
being ladylike and retiring and mod.
est and all that. But il she does, she
gets left"
whats the trouble, Phocbe?"
chorused the group.
mo particular trouble" blithely re.
turned Phoebe But was just thiak-
ing such advice is out Of date. II :
girl takes it nowadays, it'll make heE
3 wallflower and eventually ali ole
maid, or, suppose should say, bach
elor girl"
Something has gone wrong sail
one of the girls sagely.
Did you know Sue Dickinson il
married again?" asked Phoebe
mol" calculated the others. "Wht
to-"
Kenneth Leaverett."
"You don't mean it,"
Eyes. I do: And that's what set nc
to thinking upon old-tiIne advice. r.
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
divorce. And now in less than a yeaE
she is married again. And here ars
all of Us, quiet, ladylike, wcll-bre6
girls, hanging yet on the parental
STEM"
"Huh!" said one Indignantly. .
wouldn't want to marry either Ned
Willoughby or Kenneth Leaverett."
THAT may be" replied Phoebe
But even if you had, you wouldn't
have had the chance. You're not for
ward enough. don't want to set into
personalities" she said hastily, az she
saw CLEAN in the other girls eye.
I'm just drawing deductions. AS
YOU know, was invited to a house
party last week, out at Whitney's per-
fecsly superb home. And who dc you
think was the most popular girl there,
quiet, well-bred little me or charming
Alice Markham? Not cit Of it. II
was q loud, giggiing individual who
talked constantly laughed constantly.
played jokes on the men, kept herself
in every way possible in the center
Of the stage. The men simply fGc.:en
around her. They iioYere1 eve: her like
bees over flower And the rest Of
us sat eff il well-breG and ladyl!ke
Quiet and talked to each other"
THAT sort CT thing doesn't last
observed one.
she had a good time while it dc
last, though. And that's more than
the rest OF us did
~ wouldn't care for the attentions
CT men like that said another.
ooh, they were good enough, as ne.
TO-" replied Phoebe. You have to
take them as they are. YOU cani
make them to order
1T seems to me, then" said 8
fourth. that the rlen are 70 blame
for ali the forwardness and hippGncy
in girls, and the way they dress ana
all the other things they do that they
shouldn't. It would be sort Of com
Portable to blame the men fci it a.!
wouldn't it?'
They wont care qToth Phoebe.
They'll go right OF showcring al
their attentions on the girl with tic
most false hair and tie biggest Eat:
and the tightcst skirts and The
rea6iest laugh. whether there is any
thing 20 laugh at or not
Let thern," Interrupted anoti!cr
There's something more &c iii
tkan merely pleasing the men. #
prefer refinement and good breeding
and coed taste. Or tliink tie? ar.
right and their opposites wrong, al
not going TO throw them over mcrei.
to win masculine favor. | think "
ought to get down &c the bedrock fac
CT what is right and wcTti! while, nc
merely to whether our conduct wiz
win fleeting popular favor. We wan.
those things IL cur character tEat are
going to give lis lasting SatlsE2GtloE.
and, believe me. none of Us Ger.
would fsld lasting satisfaction in the
regard Of men who like vU!g2rity in
dress ard manner. And. belic"c nc,
too. the incest men icG't. And ever
il they seem 20 for little while, it i
either out CT Idle curiosity, Or 10 prs
in time, or a mere passing Fancy.
I'll stick 20 tho adric2s Of mothers ans
aunts ana gTandmoIherG. They have
been observing human nature a much
longer time than VIC have, and ticy
Know how il wears"
Well" said Phoebe. az suppose The
girl with high standards OF conGuc:
is OF more value TO society than the
gil without them. and Suppose i
is worth while TO be Of some value
somewhere"
And Id rather hare ny SELF.
respect" said another, than the at:cI-
ton OF dozen men for doing some.
thing that I thought beneath me-
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