El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-03-01
In1itativeneSS Is Common Fault of
Young Girls of the Present Day
Follow Examples Not Always Good Of Others In Or
der To Be Like Others and Avoid Appearance Of
Being Eccentric or 0ld-Fashioned

she uses in speaking. indeed her voice
Itself. are borrowed IN the same tasn-
You win no doubt admit that all
this tends to make q girl less inter-
estinE- But you may portest that Il
shouldn't Ne taken too seriously. that
it's a mere passing folly OF a period
OF life when, after all folly Is priv
LEGGED
So III press my point further. The
initiative tendency isn't purely
harmless one.
For one thing It leads young girls
who aren't under pretty close parent
al control into unwise habits OF dress
Tou have seen Il happen one girl
wears skirts that are too short and
too highland 50 DO the same. One
girl curls her hair until Il IL tangle
OF untidiness-and a small multitude
follow her example. One girl adopts
lace hlouses for winter or FUR neck
pieces for summer and she becomes
the pattern for an admiring horde.
Powder and Paint.
Worse still-there's the matter OF
powder and paint Haven't you seen
groups OF young girls fall into the
way. first OF delicately busting their
noses at intervals. then Of rubbing
powder into their faces every half
hour because they've acquired pow
dering contrivances that they can
Then IL is discovered that powder,
at least part OF Il, ultimately ruos
Off So they apply a liquid white mix
ture 20 their uo6eS-and II stays
Chins and foreheads are subjected TO
the same treatment They see that
the effect OF this isn't wholly good.
50 they learn how 70 relieve the PAL
Tor by an application OF liquid pink to
their cheeks and o. scarlet saiye TO
their lips.
So that after their eyelashes and
eyebrows are darEened. as well as the
region about their eyes. there's real
" not a natural square inch left in
their poor little faces. Beauty. fresh
ness. youth. are gone. They look at
least i've years older and uglier and
yes, we know it's true-wickeder
But u would be most unfair to as
sumo that they are what they look.
They're Just Initiative they're lust
followers OF the silly fashions OF
their time and group. Don't misjudge
them But u you do by any chance
gain the confidence OF one OF them try
to convince her. not too preachily.
that she Is rapidly susotherinE a prec-
ious self somewhere beneath those
layers OF artificlality. and that she'd
better bring Il TO the surface and let
in It.
I know that there are girls who.
II they we're honest. would say: Yes.
We know the things you speak Of are
FOOLISH. But they make US pleasing 70
boys And Isn't that after all our
main object?"
hope that not all girls are not so
eager to please as this would i'm
ply. And I do not believe they are.
But even II every girl regulated her
every action with this solely in view.
she would be greatly mistaken IN sup
POSING that boys would Ike her better
for being a button on a card.
ITS the girl who's an Individual. a
genuine person. the girl who has
originality. whose ideas and emotions
are her own, not eimulated-it's this
kind OF girl who attracts boys as she
attracts grown ups, and the world at
large
It's the kind Of n girl that I wish
all Is year ol6s would let themselves
become.