The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-18
Lillian G. Perkins
Signs of the Times

Outdoor affairs that are the hey
dey of fashion these quiet days of
summer. enjoyed to the fullest by the
young society set and older folk too,
for that matter. fill the society col
umns as far as affairs are concerned.
The most important feature of the
dances, picnics and camping parties
are the chaperons. II must be
chronicled as TO who are the digni-
fled and unrelaxing duennas attend
ant at these carefree, informal at
fairs. And here. the matter OF chap
erons brings on more talk as there
Is a variance OF opinion. Some ono
writing recently has much to say OF
interest along this line and says as
far as the word chaperon in Its
former definition Is concerned. Is OBJ
solete and goes still farther and an
nounces that there are no chaper-
ons needed these days. OF independ-
ent, self-reliant and altogether So
phisticated young women.
Someone recently received letter
signed, worried Mother tho letter
asking TO say something about the
present fashion of girls going about
all hours from mornig until mid
night and--later. just by themselves
or with companions There is much
TO say about this important matter,
There are some who say mothers Of
girls OF today have no control what
ever over the actions. the speech,
the every day lives OF their daugh-
ters. There are no laws TO be strict
To- =
ters: authorities maintain and right
ly that the supervising of the daily
life OF daughters in a home Is the
mother.
The mothers who have taken strict
charge OF her daughters from in
fancy, keeping a close charge of
them. encouraging the real spirit of
comraderie that should exist be-
tween them, need never feel the
slightest fear OF anything but correct
conduct on their part, whether
there be chaperon near or not,
but there is another consideration,
and that Is the assurance Of the pub
lie as to the correct conduct Of
these daughters and for this there
should be the watchful supervision
or at least the presence OF some dig
nified matron or married couple who
stands between public expression and
the young girls in the party.
1t is said that as far as etiquette
these days Is concerned In matters
OF chaperons there Ii no require
rpent In these days of absolute free
dom, and Il seems that things have
gone far away from the days Of
mothers and grandmothers when
even parents did not retire when a
young man was just calling In the
homo, when an elder sister went
along when the fine horse and trap
came to the door to take daughter
for a ride. 1t is q question with
sober minds II there should not be a
halt In these lax ideas. II they exist
and are to be termed thus, and a
clinging to tho law and order of cor
rect living that made the mothers OF
the past such women that are looked
on now as ideal and whose life was
a beautiful example to emulate
Attractiveness in women Is the
subject OF a somewhat striking arti-
Gle by Edith L. Moriarty In LAS a
Woman Thinks" Her observations
are as follows:
An interesting bundle OF figures
has been compiled by Chicago
newspaper woman. A young girl
Wrote her asking in what proportion
brains, personality. beauty of face
and form. and clothes count In max
ing a woman beautiful and attrac-
tive. The newspaper woman asked
70 women and Is men whom she
picked at random to help her deter
mine the correct proportion. The re-
ports OF each individual were inter-
esting particularly In the light OF the
profession OF each one. but the total
percentages were sull more inter-
esting.
According to the women person
ality headed the list as most impor-
tant with 37.7. Next came clothes
at 24,3. then beauty gao. and last in
the list was brains, 1915. The men
however, demanded 43.9 per cent
beauty, ait per cent personality,
17.9 per cent brains and only 40
per cent clothes.
II is strange TO note that women
value brains less highly than men
in the woman beautiful, but the
strangest thing OF all Is the place
awarded clothes in both lists. While
Mt Is considerably higher in the wo-
Hnan's percentages II is not very high
comparison with the other items.
In the mans list II is n very differ
ent matter, Clothes got the lowest
vote. This is surely blow TO the
women who have spent hours and
dollars keeping fashionable. Accord
Ing TO this table OF percentages wo-
men 10 be attractive and beautiful
and in order to appeal TO man will
have 10 spend time and dollars on
her face ana form and next on de-
veloping her personality. Then II
there Is any time or money left she
must develop her brain and lastly
her clothes
THIS surely ought TO be good news
10 the women who are trembling
az the high cost OF clothing and that
Is why we are passing II on.
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