The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-01-24
FLIPPANCY IN GIRLS
BY BARBARA BOYD.

ITS all very well,' the quiet girl
was saying to the little group Of in.
innate friends, for mother and aunt
and grandmother to insist on a girls
being ladylike and retiring and mod
est and all that. But If she does, she
! gets left"
Whats the trouble, Phoebe?"
chorused the group.
mo particular trouble" bllthely re.
turned Phoebe. But was just think
ing such advice 10 out of date. If a
girl takes II nowadays, it'll make her
wallfower and eventually an old
maid, or, suppose should say, bach.
elor girl"
Something has gone wrong said
one of the girls sagely.
did you know Sue Dickinson is
married AGAIN." asked Phoebe.
mol" calculated the others. who
tor.
Kenneth Leaverett."
you don't mean it,"
yes, ! do. And that's what set me
to thinking upon old-time advice. In
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 a
divorce. And now in less than year
she Is married again. And here are
all Of us, quiet, ladylike, well-bred
girls, hanging yet on the parental
stem"
HUH" said one Indignantly. Il
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 get into
personalities" she said hastily, as she
saw a CLEAN in the other girls eye.
I'm just drawing deductions. As
you know, l was invited to a house
party last week, out at Whitney's per-
fectly superb home. And who do you
think was the most popular girl there,
quiet, well-bred little me or charming
Alice Markham? Not a bit of it. 1t
was a loud. giggling 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 flocked
around her. They lowered over her like
bees over a flower. And the rest of
US sat of in well-bred and ladylike
quiet and talked to each other"
THAT sort of thing doesn't last,
observed one.
she had a good time while 1t did
last, though. And that's more than
the rest of us did,
81 wouldn't care for the attentions
of men like that" said another.
ooh, they we're good enough, as men
co." replied Phoebe. You have to
take them as they are. You can't
make them to order"
1T seems to me, them" said q
fourth, that the men are to blame
for all the forwardness and flippancy
in girls, and the way they dress and
all the other things they do that they
shouldn't. It would be sort of com
Portable to blame the men for it all
wouldn't it?"
They won't care" quoth Phoebe
They'll go right on showering al
their attentions on the girl with the
most false hair and the biggest hats
and the highest skirts and the
readiest laugh, whether there is any
thing to laugh at or not"
Let them" interrupted another
There's something more to life
than merely pleasing the men. If
prefer refinement and good breeding
and good taste, or think they are
right and their opposites wrong, l an
not going to throw them over merel,
to win masculine favor. l think We
ought to get down to the bedrock fac
of what is right and worth while, no
merely to whether our conduct viii
win fleeing popular favor. We wan
those things in our character that arr
going to give us lasting satisfaction
And, believe me, none OF us here
would find lasting satisfaction in thu
regard of men who like vulgarity il
dress and manner. And, believe me
too, the incest men don't. And ever
| IL they seem to for little while, 1t il
either out of idle curiosity, or to pu
in time, or a mere passing fancy
I'll stick to the advices of mothers ant
aunts and grandmothers. They hav'
been observing human nature a muci
longer time than We have, and the!
| know how 1t wears"
WELL" said Phoebe, "I suppose thu
girl with high standards of conduc
is of more value to society than thu
girl without them. And ! suppose 4
is worth while to be of some value
somewhere"
And I'd rather have my self
respect" said another, than the atten