The sun., 1919-05-15
NINE VILLAGE GIRLS
PLAN OWN MAGAZINE
"Judy,, So Called Because It
Has Punch, Out About
June 1.
ORGAN OF THEIR THINKS
Mary Carolyn Davies, Anne
Herendeen, Freda Kirchwey
and Others in Group.

Male cynics no doubt will arise and
stite in bitter tones that this 10 Just one
more example OF that overpowerine fem
mist conceit that v bursting out every
where now that women have got the vote
in most places and are pulled up by be-
Ing told that the war couldn't have been
won without them, and so forth.
But the simple truth Is that the nine
brilliant members of the Bodied Hair
Brigade OF Greenwich Village who
horned the buxom young magazine yclept
Judy that will burst upon a startled
world June 1 or Observation-Disclosures to
delays consequent upon possible compli-
cations with printers, incorporating the
new company and the difnculty Of filling
the first number when there are nine
editors to pass on all contributions-the
simple truth, then, Is that those blessed
girls are doing II just out OF compassion
for the sex to which they have the good
fortune not to belong.
OF course they don't admit II What
Freds Kirchwey and Phyllis Duganne
and Margaretta SchuyleS and Brenda
LELAND and Mary Carolyn Davies and
Miriam Gerstle and Anne Herendeen and
Betty Shannon and Margaret Sangster
said in chorus when interviewed by a
SuS reporter in their orange and black
ONCE. which they painted themselves, on
the ground floor OF one story delight
fully tumbledown building at 1853 West
Eleventh street. was that their heads
wero so absolutely bursting with the
thinks they cannot help thinking, being
people although women, that they have
got TO have an organ. q means of express
sion, mouthpiece to tell the world, un-
censored and unblus penoilled. what said
thinks are.
IT, Just YsLe Ths.
You see." explained Phyllis, who is
1nez Haynes Irwins niece and an active
young lady. as may be gathered from
the fact that she worked on a mission
cry magazine, got a serial in the Lode s.
Home Journal, got her hair bobbed.
married An aviator and set up house
keeping all in one brief year. and she
not yet 20 and small and childish to
look at; you see, business men and pol
iticians have the newspapers to tell the
world what they think about every
thing"
And there are journels to tell what
the masculine highbrows think" broke
in Anne Herendeen, who was herself In
terrupted by Freda Kirchwey, who re-
marked sloomily that there were wom-
ems magazine to tell women what they
ought to think. and was going on to en-.
upOu lIllS bOTe toplC WHcu ZIG Wha
cut short by Brenda LELAND, who had
finished painting the name Judy in
black letters, artistically crooked. on the
door and came in, wiping her hands on
her orange smock and sinking upon the
orange covered canopy bed which .occu-
pies one side of the Office because 1t was
contributed by a friend, and furniture is
not to be lightly rejected by a company
Just offering its first blocks Of stock fol
sale.
Persons who think women do no,
think" remarked Brenda, have another
think coming. Judy is to tell what
women think. About everything. When
anything happens--and things are likely
TO keep happening right along. the Way
life is acting now-we shall think about
Il, and then we'll put what we think in
Judy"
But It won't be too serious and
prosy." hastily said Anne Herendeen,
patting the pocket Of her purple smock
from which protruded two manuscript
which looked suspiciously like love
poems Reason I'm glad we've go'
suffrage Is that We now can stop talking
causes and be feminine, we women, II
we want. and IL we think about love we
can write about love-"
There will be everything in Judi
that reflects from the many faceted girl
mind" interpellated Margaret Sangster
who writes poetry like her grandmother
.cr whom she is named. "and we are
1ather expecting a large number OF male
subscribers. because in our pages they
will find an answer to the riddle which
has been occupying them since that day
when Eve gave Adam that look he never
could fathom Immediately after he said
The woman did It."
Their Eden Not AdapaIess.
But aren't YOU laying your cards OF
the table face upT' demanded the re.
porter. who had been trying ever since
he interview opened TO get in question
but with nine editors what can mere
reporter do? Aren't you taking Othello's
occupst ton from him? What will mer