Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-04-05
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Has Sweet Sirteen
Vanished?
~ BEApRIcE rAmFA1.

Where Is sweet sixteen ahs seems
10 have departed from tbs hearts N
men She was very lovable littie thing.
who wore simple modest clothes and had
manner 70 match. and she grew Up
into very lovable woman whom "sll
men delighted 10 honor" Where IN shsY
Doesn't some group of sensible tittis
girls want 10 bring little girdom back
Into fashion, II will be very welcome.
I suggest that some OF my girls start
sweet sixteen clubs with tho idea N pro.
noting childhood
'Es oiebt Refine Kinder Mshr.' says
tho old German proverb. Ana II IL pa,
thetleaiiy true that there aren't any
children more ON The avenue, IN thu
theators. ~ dances, wherever groups N
people are gathered, ons observes pn-
theHa little ifayeaties NJ womanhood whd
look al first glance like dwaffs and who
turn ont 10 ne poor, foolish little girls
aplnR the worst folics ~ tho grown.up
women ~ today
a few evenings ago ! stood IN Tho
Hinety-siSih street (Now York; subway
station waiting for much-delsyed train.
before ma came two strange figures AMI
my instructive reflection was, "iIow mn
fortunate that two llitis dwhffs sh0uld
make themselves chsapiy conspicuous
with those absurd hlgh boots and short
skirts and pertiy cooked little hats and ali
that makeup"
They looked iika traKie figures from
. distance. Faces enamelad 10 staring
shltsnese, ehoeks rouged pink and lips
painted crimson, eyes baekensd and
Swallowed IN an absurd makeup and
flashy clothes made all eyes focus on
than.
Al last thsy came Nuts. quite near
me ami ! found from their conversation
ana their rather pathetic little old young
faces that they we're fresh from high
school and that ono Of them had osle~
bratsd her thirteenth birthday the year
before.
II hurt me IN the msrs observing And
how sadly u IL goiEs 70 hurt These
youngsters who pratsd one moment of
their difficulties with their studies and
the next about they boys they had
n crush on" and tho third about hoy
stingy the folks we're not 10 buy them
more than two pretty dresses n season
What are the mothers and fathers
thinking about 10 prenit this traveaty.
this uDholy parody Of womanbood7 N
they have Lost control Of their children,
both they and tho children will pay a
bitter reckoning some day. II won't
do. Someone must call halt.
Wa have 10 have children. appeal
10 tho little girls and boys Themselves
Why not no on quest for YOUTH u
IL the most beautiful thing in tho world.
You ran never have II sgain,. eoms
day you may actually be driven 10
Initiating n Just M cheapiy and aa dca-
parately NJ now YOU initiate maturity
appeal 10 tho parents. Surely yon
know how vainly you long today for
tho youthful lightheartednsss and ire
sponslbility and simplicity of Viewpoint
you once possessed. Surely you cherish
every reminder OF youth. every suggos-
ton Of youth In your own nature,
In fairness 10 your children won't you
conserve thsir YOUTH n won't last. ~
IA the most fieetiDg and this most beau-
tifni thing in tho world. II Ia dew on
the grass In the sunlight glow. Midday
and night come soon enough, Why hasten
thsm7
Let ~ have renwakeulng 10 tho
beauty Of youth--h movement for the
of childhood, sentiment
that shall mako us band ourselves into
n league Of and for youth