Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-28
Thousands Witch Fall
Women Urge Manners
of the OIden Days
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we'll and the very few who misbchavc
are noticeable, because they are differ
ent from the rest"
The women who are actively inter.
ested in the movement are optimistic.
They believe that the much talked of
fashions in dress and dance are going
to disappear soon, for they have al
ready run their course.
They cannot be stylish any longer.
says Mrs. Large, because We have had
them too long.
II is because the fashion must soon
change that these women are interested
in helping TO create a public opinion
that will result in a saner style.
The disregard for chapcronage in re
come back disappointed and disgusted
at the change that has taken place since
they left. The customs are Oriental.
unGraccful and unwholoSomp. and what
we want TO do is to return TO the cour-
tcSy Of Washington and the gcnteel
grace of the early American manners.
In the re establishment of standards,
the Colonial Danes have invited the CO.
operation of individual women, and of
organizations of women, of dancing
teachers OF recognized reputation. and
manual of good manners is being pre-
puTFl DN InP Ne" 1pTh ' nhItfT OF tue
Colonial Danes for instruction in simple
manners in the schools
That is the sort Of AmericanizatiOn
work that is really valuable. says Mrs.
George Dallas Dixon who believes that
real progress in courtesy is to be eX-
pected from the early training of chill
dren in school.
I'VE have supported beautiful or
chcstra in Philadelphia, says Mrs.
Dixon, 'and just a. we want the people
to be uplifted by the higher standards
in music, so we want higher standard
Of dancing and of good manners to pre-
vail.
Thinks Jazz Is Passing
I'VE think that Jazz music is pass
ing 1t has, perhaps, increased the un-
rest, but it is 20 longer fashionable aud
never was of the first fashion.
The criticism of misbehavior is not
for the majority. The majority behave
cent social gatherings has caused un-
favorable comment. Youth wants TO
usurp the whole stage nowadays" said
one Of the women interested. THE
young people no longer like to have the
older OueS around. They seem to for
get that j, is the presence of the older
people which lends dignity to the func-
tion and turns it from Childrcn's
dancing IluSS lutO u Dali.
"Thr very OutCry against the ap-
parent dccadence of American ideals
seems to me sign of sOciul health
whirh is cheering" is the view taken
by Mrs. George Mason Chichester. who
hcadS the committee on American social
Ideals for the Colonial Danes.
'Our piping times OF peace have pro
ducrd special problems, and even if
these problems seem 10 some persons too
small and silly for serious consideration,
none the less they are problems, and if
We can help in any way toward their
solution we shall not be wasting time. ="
Mrs. Chichester has great faith in
the womanhoOd that did such great
work in the war.
THE relaxation of the strain and the
backward swing of the pendulum have
brought into prominence follips which
disgust and dsheartcn many OBJ.
servers, she said, but we have every
reason to hope that If they can be made
10 stop, look and listen long enough to
realize the value to their country Of
safe and sane social standards, thpv
| will rally 10 those standards with the
same allegiance they showed in the
war.
The defense Of the younger member.
of sOcicty--and the word was used in
its broad senS"-Wa7 always apparent
In fact, criticism usually fell upon the
heads Of mothers who had permitted
their control to weaken aud standards
10 be- submerged in the rush for ind-
yiduaI attention and individual popu-
arity.
IF the mothers would get together
and make it the fashion to dance grace
fully there would be no cheek to cheek
dancing and the unEaemlv Cnnfnrtion
dancing that has caused the criticism
recently" says Miss Marguerite Walz
(Mrs. Charles A. Townsend), one of