The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-06-15

ditions do not hold the girls pri-
marily to blame. In the broadcast
sense, the blame rests on society as
a whole, but II any one group is to
be singled out, It Is certainly Ameri-
can mothers who have allowed their
daughters to grow up and to go out
in the world 80 lost to a sense of,re-
sponsibility, or the fitness of thlngs."
Then DR.. Hibben made the state
ment 1 have quoted at the beginning
of this story.
But when you complain" l said.
"of the loss OF the aura of mystery
about the young woman Of to-day.
are you not criticising a condition
made inevitable by woman's entrance
into business and into public affairs?
And are you opposed to these interests
Of the modern woman7
IL am not referring" DR.. Hibben
said quickly. ito the responsible self
supporting woman who Is holding her
own so splendidly in the business or
professional world. Nobody has a
more profound respect for her than 1.
THE type have in mind, who has
lost the mystery which was at once
her defense and her glory. is the
young girl at home, the daughter who
has not even been trained for self
support or for anything else-the So
ciety butterfly"
Although he didn't say so for publ
cation, the type in DIR. Hibben's black
books is that which Is known COL
loquially as the baby vamp." She
had better keep her hands and eyes
off his Princeton boys.
she is not" continued Princeton's
President, fitted to be noble wife
or "a noble mother for the next gem
Grafton. There are those who argue
that she will change when these re-
probabilities are placed upon her,
that she will meet them adequately
l nope she will. But suppose there
are many Of her who do not change?
II she fails in her wifehood and
motherhood, the decadence OF the
American home may be traced to her
In what she wears, in the subjects
she discusses with men, in the very
language she uses, there is no re-
serve, there is no Illusion. And I
believe in illusions, especially about
young girls; there should be around
them something of glamour, of ro-
nance. l want to see the modern
girl recapture these things. Their
disappearance seems to me a mart
of the general lowering of standards
indicated by our dress, dances and
divorces"
yet are we not more strict than
ever, in some ways2" | suggested
winston Churchill calls us 'pioua
America and we have Prohibition /"
II don't think Winston Churchill
has seen us for some time" smiled
President Hibben. "As for Prohibl-
ton, one OF the first signs OF n deca
lent society is that 1t tries to make
itself moral by law instead of bv the
force of a healthy and vigorous pub
lie opinion"
You were quoted as advocating a
return to the ideals Of the Pilgrim
Fathers. Do you really want us 10
initiate them to-dayr l asked
finally.
81 only said we might accent soma
what of the austerity of their morals
without their austerty of manner"
replied Dr. Hibben. Our present
seltishness, extravaganza and reck-
lessness may be due in no small
measure to our reaction from the war.
But having admitted that, there ia no
reason why we should not fight
against 1t and strive to raise the tone
of our society. l do not mean we
should abolish dancing or anything
like that. l am not an extremist.
But / should like" finished President
Hibben with his kind, wise and pa
tient smile, "to see little decency.
1t is getting hard to find"