Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
LOVEMAKIVG IN
PUBLIC SCORED
Noted Woman Writer Declares
"Spooning" in Front of
Folks Is All Wrong

"It's all right in the summertime.
was the refrain of song popular few
years ago. 1t is almost the refrain OF
summer Stiffness itself.
| Nothing. is all right in the summer
time that would be all wrong in the
| Fall.
"Spooning" in the parks; flirting at the
beaches; relaxing standards of clothes
and manners everywhere seem to be a
/ part of the cult of summer. They are
a most unbecoming part.
| a girl who pulls down her dress when
she is conscious that her crossed knees
are showing a bit too much stocking
/ runs merrily out on the beach in a
scant little bathing suit cut well above
her knees and clinging where its few
brief inches of material do exist
Summer relaxation has deadened her
| common sense and her powers of OBJ
servation. worthwhile people pity her
for her evident lack of modes, ana the
wrong sort of men and women classify
her as one of their own ilk and treat
her accordingly.
Later, her own modesty and decency
may be shocked at things that are said
to her or little indignities that are OF
fered to her. And it never occurs To
her to trace her unpleasant experiences
right back to her shocking little bath
ing suit
The summer spirit brings out a
whole crop of young lovers. You see
them on benches in the park, in the
cross seats of street cars. on excur-
sion boats and scattered about on the
beaches.
Public Love Making
UnreStrained public love-making is a
menace to the community as well as to
the individual At it's best 1t is cheap,
and at its worst it is morally danger
Gus. Real love is a fine, self-respectfnS
thing which does not carry on it's
manifestations in public.
L beg of all my boys and girls to re-
and to resist them If they are cheaply
emotional. Don't exploit your love in
public for every passer-by to laugh at
Learn little fine self-restraint. Don't
spoon" on park benches or anywhere
out in the big world just because its
summer and you think anything goes
Anything goes in the sense that 1t
passes and ceases to be. The sort of
emotion that exploits itself cheaply is
worth nothing and ends cheaply. Your
from public love-making.
The third ill of the summertime
clothes and immodest iove-making is
taken more lightly but has equally
grave Dangers in its train. 1t is mr.
gar parlance, picking up compan-
ion.
Don't do it. Well tailored blue serge
SUITS may be the proNefDlal Sneep =
clothing that hide a wolf. No girl can
be sure that a man is a gentleman be-
cause he looks like one. And no man
is likely to believe that a girl is a lazy
or that he is called on to act like a
gentleman if she lets him scrape ac-
quaintance with her.
The girl who wouldn't dream of let
ting a stranger come to her table in
public restaurant in the winter season
and pay for her luncheon sometimes
relaXes her standards in the summer
q ina Nferln 20 t-f o.
alton to arise when she goes down TO
the beach for days outing.
There is a spirit of informality and
youth and gayety and desire for "a
good time" in summer. But it is so
likely to lead to a bad time, either in
damaged reputation for modesty and
good behavior, or in unpleasant eXper-
fences with dangerous people that no
sane boy or girl wants to risk it.