Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-30

the next. The play would be definite
~ over.
The final purpose Of the working
girl in setting to work and keeping
at work is, after she has provided for
necessaries,- to increase her luxuries,
which chiefly means to make herself
more attractive and ~ lay BY a reia-
lively modest sum for emergencies
and caiamities. II cannot be doubted
that she looks forward To the day
when she viii not have 10 work or
win have to work legs. and win be
able To enjoy herself more
Further. do girls who take their
share in the worlds hard labor show
the slightest sign Cf distaste Tor the
society Of men in circumstances favor
able to roma ance2 DO they, when six
o'clock, or whatever the hour tor leay-
ing-off may be. chimes in. the office
clock or the church clock. mlirnur to
one another:
What pity that the delightful day
LOT toll il finished and that We arc COM
eIled by convention 20 minsIe with
men and give ourselves UP To diver
sIonl How much more pleasant ii
would be If we could shut out men and
their desires and give ourselves 70
the discussion and contemplation Of
matters more earnest and nobier than
The sentimental dalliance of the sex
est''
/ ask-Do they? To answer that
they do not is to understate the case.
Does a man find in actual practice
that the modern independent cr SEMI
independent girl is less disposed than
any other sort Of girl 70 explore with
him the charming regions of senti-
nent?
II he adnlires her, does she frown
on him2
II ne suggests the restaurant. the
theatre, the cinema, the ballroom,
does she reply:
You ought to know that : have
eutgrown these baubles.
Are the twilight and the moonlight
any less popular today than they
were fifty years ago?
Does the youth Of the two sexes
eance less or does il dance more?
Are old maids multiplying - the
land?
Have twilight and moonlight and
the n1anoeuvres Of the dance and the
enlacing Of arms ceased TO have the
usual fine healthy crop Of GJnjugal
consequences
Is it untrue today that the sums
which girl spends in heightening
her attractiyeness are a pretty sure
index to her financial rescurces2
Lastly, have modern girls decided
that deliberately and consciously to
exercise charm when man comes
1long is an old-fasnioned AMI undig-
aified proceeding
/ need not answer any OF these
queries. The answers are known to
everybody.
The truth is. nature still exists.
I certainly 90 no count myself
nature never alters. l am convinced
that it does alter. and almost always
for the better. But it alters so slowly
that no man lives long enough to
witness in his lifetime such a funda-
mental change as is popularity at
tributed 10 the modern girl in her re-
lations with the modern man a coral
reef is built up in some thousands or
some tens OF thousands Of years, and
l gravely doubt whether the develop
ment of human nature-at any rate
in its more important manifestations
lis as rapid as that OF a coral reeft
Natures secret.
The great secret purposes OF ma
zure are principally assisted by the
desire cf the modren imam to run after
the modern girl and by the desire Of
the modern girl TO do all she properly
can TO make him run after her. Are
the great secret purposes Of nature
TO be defeated or checked because the
modern girl works in an Office and
gets wages Nature is quite clever
enough TO use those wages for the fur