The Washington times., 1915-10-28
Modern Girl
Deaf To Old
Time Praises
She Wants Admiration Rath-
er For What She Knows
Than For What She
Cannot Help!
BY WINIFRED BLACK.


copyright 1918. Newspaper Feature serice.)
~ HE old-fashioned man went to a
concert given by tho new-fash-
Toned woman the other day. Tho
old-fashioned man IL q music
lover and tho new-fashioned woman 10 a
really great musician.
She plays the piano-she doesn't play
with II.
At this particular concert the new
woman fairly outdid herself
She played the new composers, whom
so few Of us understand. and the old
composers. whom SO few Of us have
ever really learned to appreciate.
Strauss-the new Strauss, of course
Debussy. Wagner. Beethoven. and she
ended by brilliant rendition OF L!szt's
Hungarian Rhapsody" Brilliantly she
played the rhapsody. too-and at the
end OF the concert the old-fashioned
man begged for an Introduction to the
new-fashioned woman.
l had watched him as he sat enrap-
tured. and l wondered what phrase he
would find to express his appreciation
of the new womans great genius.
The old-fashioned man was introduced.
bowed. recovered. and said-without any
prelude whatsoever: What delicious
little hands you have. How in the
world do you manage to reach an oc-
tave?"
The old-fashioned man Is wondering
yet why the new-fashioned woman
turned her back and did not even an
swer.
Yet the old-fashioned man is not old
at all. he's in the very prime OF life
and he IL a man Of really great intelli-
8ence-but he comes from a part of the
country where II is the fashion to fat
ter Women by talking down to them
besides, this particular old-fa shioncd
man rather fanCies himself among the
ladies.
hear That he Is considered quite a
heart-breaker at home
They say there's widow down there,
and a rich widow, too-who really
And, as for the girls-he's been en-
gagged TO half a dozen of them-some
times. two at time. Oh. he's a charm
ioned man.
He's sorry about II. of course. He
wishes he wasn't quite SO fascinating
but what can he do?
The Knell Sounded
Thirty years ago girl might spend
years and money. and energy and hone
and her hearts blood in learning to
blaV the piano-and then be satisfied to
have some one tell her that she had
such pretty little hands that she would
never be able to strike an octave.
That sort OF girl does not exist in this
country today.
The woman who really wants pretty
hands more than she wants anything
else on earth does not spend her time
pretending to play the piano.
She uses up her spare time and her
spare money at the manicures-and she
Is usually found sitting for the figure
In some artists studio. and not In a
drawing room affected by people of
brains and ability.
A pretty woman is a pretty woman
she's pretty and she likes to feel that
other people know it-but the man who
tells her OF her beauty when she's try
Inc TO convince him OF her sense does
not please her any more.
The modern Laura does not want
Petrarch to write a sonnet to her eye
brow.
She wants him to buy an automobile
her perfectly good book Of poems
and act as II he thought she under
stood what they were about when she
The girl who has her own way to
make in the world doesn't want any
man to take up her time telling her
What What pretty little "tootse wootsies"
II he really admires her feet. she
wants him to marry her and arrange
matters so that she won't have to go
out In the wet. or to give her a good
lob so that she can dress the aforesa i'd
tootsies' In the sort Of shoes she
really likes to wear.
The first day the first woman went
down town to work In the first Office
then rang the knell Of the old-fa sh loned
man who persisted In trying to pretend
That no woman could possibly under
stand what he meant-if he tried to
talk common sense to her.
How queer they do seem-the old
fashioned men-when we run across n
specimen OF one OF them now and then
All compliments and evasions and
soft nothings and subtle hatterio.-and
always the veiled insult OF condcsccn-
Gion
How r"n they live and not see that
the world they live in Is changing like
the nicturcs on n screen rnd that moth
ing In the world Is changing SO fast as
th" woman who lives in II.
Old md Young. nretty and ugly clever
a"h stupid. tn" modern woman has be.
Iun 10 ask 10 be admired. rot for what