The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-10
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She was gowned in q smart tailored
suit and most becoming hat, and she
was as dainty and lovely to look upon as
a flower. And then she ran her hand
into her coat pocket. crew out = cigar
cite, crossed her legs SO rnat her silken
stockings were much in evidence, and as
she languid1y talked to the young man
vis-a-vas. blew smoke wreaths into the
air.
1t was a shock to those who had
watched her with so much pleasure
She had looked such a charming person.
No doubt she was. But, somehow. IL
was impossible not to reel that she would
have been more charming without the
cigarette.
EashIon and Breeding.
Another girl entered rne room as the
young woman, sans cigarette, went our.
She also was young and pretty. Her
blue suit was natty and expensive look
ing. She impressed one as being a quite
prosperous young person, possibly pro-
fessional woman, and then she spoke.
and this is what she said.
Take IL from me, mes the limit He
hasn't got sense enough to pound sand
in rat hole" She laughed when she
said it, and so did her auditors. But
their opinion of her then and there took
a decided drop.
A few minutes later another attractive
looking girl came in with friend. Both
and she was a very pleasing young per-
son indeed. Her eyes were dark and
long dashed, her nose straight, her
cheeks round and naturally rosy, her
hps-but ner lips were disappointink
For she was assidiously chewing gum.
TWO women who had been sitting at
luncheon Watching the girls as they
came and went talked it over somewhat
dclefully as they went out.
They are so good looking" one of
them said" and so well dressed. and SO
altogether capable looking. 1t does seem
such q pity that they should commit
such crimes against good breeding
breeding my dear" said her friend.
has gone out CT fashion,
II don't know the other stoutly main
tanned. II do not believe II has. But the
trouble is that those girls think it has
1t Is very evident that all three have am
billions They are successful looking
Well groomed and well gowned L
wouldn't wonder il each of the three is
anxious to be considered
correct of department as well as in dress
Yet 1t does not occur to them that they
are detracting from their charm by COM
hitting such solecisms as smoking in
public tea room, using slang and chew
ing gum.
For in spite of all that one may say
Of the present fashions IN manners for
women, good breeding has not gone out
" any iuedIlS- but Jnere Is q thing that
one wishes one could impress upon wom-
en- who are in public life. and that is that
Z is impossible to be too careful in man
her as well as dress. Tnere is a certain
type OF young woman who is trying to
limb the ladder of success, and who
wants. more than anything else. to be |
considered smart. If only this type
could know and understand that the
women who really are smart never do /
-hlngs which are so hopelessly ill bred /
Il believe that no more important work
les before the women of America than
nat OF raising the standards of women.
they will. do that, they may leave it
o men to raise the standards of men.
sot the least thing that women in publ.
lie have already accomplished is the
hooking over of a number of false theo-
les In regard to the rich and the IA
nous
curse, think that women in what we
-ould call good society chew gum or use
UGH evecrable slang. but these things
land for something in their Iives-a GER
ain reckless freedom of manner and
peech which they consider fashionable
nd which are really not fashionable at
H. Ii
"One of the most interesting and per- !
APPS one of the most enlightening things
bout the woman movement is that those
no are leading it-and certainly the | Z,
aders are recruited from the most ex-
usive as well as the most fashionable
rcles-are not loud in cress or manner
hey are, for the most part, a hard I,
orking lot. with less thought for smart | Il
othes or smart appearance than the s
tile shopgirl who waits upon them. 4
Imitabe Examples.
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