El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-25
The Modern Girls IDEAS
She Is Up to Date any Many OF Hef
BeIfefs Would shock Her
By Dorothy Di1

AVE Won ever considered LAe Lllo-
~ ern girl and how she dlLIeFs
II from the maidens Of the pastE
-.,,e.s new .specfes Of the feminine sex,
80 M more like her grandlnoLIe %
oveu her mother than IL sA9 ~ - -
waited down from the pLa-59- - - 30
stead OF having just stroued OUT Oh ---S
me other day / overheard two young
girls talking --s-. CHI,
said one: when a girl marries, sne
should he very. very careful IN cLloos---5
- husband and after she is married
she should do the best she can 20 Illt1-S
d GOOD wife and a happy home ouI u
She finds out that she pas maue d ----9
take. and is miserabla thank heaven
she doesn't have to stand H. one ian
always get a divorce
sid the other girl "Oh, Of course
chars the only thing TO do under such
circumstances. 1t Won pe my te-.--- ~
my marriage turns out nadlg' DeG1-sS
I'm going TO do everything i can ana
bring every particle Of Intelligence ~
got to making IL a success, put none OF
that suffer aud-be-strOng business IN
r0fuel III my husband isn't what ne
shouId be. or treats me badly, OF ]
find I've made an error of Judgment,
I'm going to correct it just as would
any other mistake
An Unusual Remark.
7 casped with surprise These girls
royv-minded families. and they them
selves are sweet modest, lnlelllgenl,
wen educated Young women who haven z
the faintest idea of being revolutionary
or anything of that sort What they
said simply voiced the viewpoint of the
new. generation
They didn't argue about the ethics Of
divorce at ALL They simply accepted
divorce as a fact, a modern convenience
something that tended 10 make life
III. rrH H=H 3D.
in apartment buildings, or electric
lights. or running hot and cold water in
bathrooms
If you had made q, mistake in mar
riage and your life was being ruined
by it. YOU corrected it and took fresh
start. just as you would do if YOU found
out that YOU had engaged in a business
that was bankruping you
You can't argue the divorce question
with the modern young girl. because
she simply doesn't recognize the ancient
view of the matter, that there is any
thing noble, or plOus, or VlrtuOuS IN
living with an individual that brings
out all the worst that is I'm YOU, or in
keeping together n family that is en-
gagged in perpetual drawn battles at
home.
And here's another viewpoint of the
1913 model Of girl. If you viii recall,
the heroes Of all Old-fashiOned novels
used TO be men who had been sad razes-
They were men with dark pasts, such
as Rochester. who fascinated innocent
little Jane Eyre. and even as late as a
generation or so ago man lost mo-
prestige in q girls eyes from having
been wild and having had romantic adj
ventures. Recently an opponent 60 the
bin for requiring all candidates for
marriage TO produce a health certifi-
cate brought up this former attitude
of women on this subject I'm objecting
TO the passage of the law He didn't
know the modern young girl. i said
something of this to one, and she de-
fined the modern girls position on the
question i'm one phrase
We've read Damaged Goods, she
said. and we know what that sort of
romance means-insane asyIums, sur
geons' tables death"
In former times, when a young girl
came TO an older woman to co1fide i'm
her, she asked for advice about some
love affair Nowadays when a girl has
a heart-tO-heart talk with YOU. she con-
suits you about her life work The
young girls are no longer looking for
ward to matrimOny as the one only de-
sirable career i'm life. They are think
iRg of business. of settlement work. of
q thousand avocatiOns outside of the
home circle. Love is no longer the
whole of their existence. 1t is a tbipar