Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-01-15
FLIPPANCY IN GIRLS
ry BARBARA BOYD.

IT'S all very well,T the quiet girl
was saying to the little group ~ In
innate friends. for mother ana aunt
and grandmother TO insist on glrl's
being ladylike and retiring and mod
est and all that. But If she does. she
gets left"
whats the trouble. Phoeber
chorused the group.
mo particular trouble blitheiy re-
turned Phoebe. ~But I was just think
ing such advice Is out OF date II 8
girl takes It nowadays. itll make her
wallaower 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.
Noi@ calculated the others. who
to-"
Kenneth Leaverett"
You don't mean it,"
Yes. do And that's what set me
70 thinking upon old-ume 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
divorce. And now in less than year
she IS married again And here are
an .of us. quiet. ladylike, wellbred
girls. hanging yet on the parental
stem"
"Huh, said one Indignantly. 4
wouldn't want 10 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 CLEAN in the other girls eye.
I'm just drawing deductions As
you know, | was invited to a house
party last week, out at Whitneys 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 focked
around her. They lowered over her like
bees over a flower And the rest Of
rs sat OF in well-bred and ludylike
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
"oh, they were good enough, as men
go, replied Phoebe. You have to
take them as they are. You cant
make them to order"
1T seems to me, them" said a
fourth. that the men are to blame
for all the forwardness and fippaRcy
in girls, and the way they dress and
all the other things they do that they
shouldn't 1t would be sort of com
Portable to blame the men for it all
wouldn't it?"
They won't care" quoth Phoebe.
Z NAtA IL BO AlEMI OtA EAAONE AAea GIL
their attentions on the girl with the
most false hair and the biggest hats
and the tightest 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. Ii !
prefer refinement and good breeding
and good taste, or think they are
right and their opposites wrong, | am
not going to throw them over merely
30 win masculine favor. think we
ought,to get down TO the bedrock fact
of what is right and worth while, not
merely to whether our conduct viii
win heeting popular favor We want
those things in our character that are
going to give US lasting satisfaction.
And, believe me, none Of US here
would find lasting satisfaction in the
regard Of men who like vulgarity in
dress and manner And. believe me.
too. the incest men don't. And even
If they seem to for a little while, 1t is
either out Of idle curiosity. or to put
in time, or a mere passing fancy
III stick TO the advices Of mothers and
aunts and grandmothers They have
been observing human nature much
longer time than we have, and they
know how it wears.
Well. said Phoebe. 81 suppose the
girl with nigh standards of conduct
Is Of more value to society than the
girl without them. And ] suppose it
is worth while to be of some value
somewhere" "
And I'D rather have my self
respect said another, than the atten.
tion Of a dozen men for doing some
hing fhaf I fhouphf heneafh NC.