The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-07-17
FLIPPANCY IN GIRLS
By BARBARA BOYD.


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"
What's the trouble, Phoebe?'
chorused the group.
NO particular trouble" blitheIy re-
turned Phoebe. But was just think
ing such advice is out of date. If a
girl takes it nowadays, it'll make her
a wallhower 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.
MOI" 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. q
wouldn't want to marry either Ned
Willoughby or Kenneth Leaverett"
THAT may be- replied Phoebe
But even if you had, you wouldn't
nave had the chance You're not for
ward enough. I don't want to get into
personalities" she said hastily, as she
saw CLEAN in the other girls eye.
I'm just drawing deductions. AS
you know, l was invited to 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 bit of it, 1t
was 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 off 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 it did
last, though. And that's more than
the rest of us did"
Il wouldn't care for the attentions
of men like that" said another.
ooh, they were good enough, as men
60" replied Phoebe. you have to
take them as they are. You can't
make them to order
at seems to me, them said a
fourth, that the men are to blame
for all the forwardness and hippancy
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,
it?'
"They won't CARE quoth Phoebe.
They'll go right on showering all
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
hing to laugh at or not"
Let them" interrupted another.
There's something more to life
han merely pleasing the men. If
prefer refinement and good breeding }
md good taste, or think they are
light and their opposites wrong, l am
lot going to throw them over merely
o win masculine favor | think we
ought to get down to the bedrock fact t
# what is right and worth while, not {
merely to whether our conduct will
vim tleeting popular favor We want !
hose things in our character that are {
,oing to give us lasting satisfaction. :
md, believe me, none of us here
would fndA Tasting satisfaction in the
egard of zen who like vulgarity in
ress and manner. And, believe me, /
90, the incest men don't. And even {
they seem to for little while, it is d
i.her out of idle curiosity or to put +
4 time, or mere passing fancy
II stick to the advices of mothers and
UNITS and grandmothers They have :
cen observing human nature a much :
'nger time than we have, and they :
now how it wears" .
well" said Phoebe, 81 suppose the n
irl with high standards of conduct
of more value to society than the n
irl without them. And I suppose it a
worth while to be of some value
And I'd rather have my self T
spect," said another, than the atten-
on of dozen men for doing some
ing. that l thought beneath me-"