The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
M 0 D ER N GIRL IS A REAL
 PAL
Woman Playwright Gives Her Clean Bill of Health, As Sensible, Intelligent, Nor al and Human.
And so we'll hear them Ger and o'er-
 The generation gone before Our modern decadence deplore!

Der and o'er-
 The generation gone before
 Our modern decadence dep1ore!
 New York, Dec. 13.-The modern girl stands acquitted.
 No less an authority than Rachel Brothers, playwright and author, ex- tends her a clean ba1 of health as person of good sense. a bully pal and the very highest type of femilinity.
 The modern girl, according to Miss feminine attribute, to her sisters of bygone days. Her advice to the girl of today is uphold the best standards of 1921 young womanhood If you not give her unqualified approval to the ''happer," this eminent woman author includes this much-abused young girl in her general designation of the modern girl.
 '"The girl of today deserves the cen Ire of the stage from the standpoint of both progress and human interest" sad Miss Crothers. 'She is so honest, stands what you are talking about. She has valuable opinions of her own on important subjects. If she does not understand you can explain, and she will grasp your meaning with certain ty and speed.
 There were so many things the old-fashioned girl did not dare fath- om. Nicety forbade her being hu- iiidu SuS IIllSSoO IQaC freedom of living and of expression the characteristic charm of the girl of today. There is nothing quite as mag netic as naturalness in a girl.
 Mine times out of ten the natural young girl is abundantly popular The tenth time happens to be a n1isfit. in which the unhappy possessor of a splendid courage of self-expressfon is handicapped by wrong instinct. Pro- pensity for doing and saying the thing OhViOIS iS n inheritance with some of us.
 There are happier birthrights, however: For example. that strange intangible, yet very real something positively innate. We either have it Or we do not. It can never be acquired in the seed, though possession of the leed of it admits of propasation.-We cising and developing our gift.
 ''The old fashioned girl had this 1b1rth1fght of magnetism. There was the most popular girl in the crowd in hoop-skirt days there is in short skirt days. There was always the toast of the town--the belle of the ball.
 "The difference is old-fashioned girls were compelled, by constructing bonds of convention, to suppress their effervescence, to subdue their origin ality and personality. They were pop ular as playmates, as sweethearts, as wives.
 Today's Girl Different
 'The miss of today is all of these and rnore-she is a companion. She may not show all the conventional deference once - the prerogative of age. but she gives i1nmea surab bly, m ore -cameraderie. the contagion of youth. Instead of shutting her elders out from the magic circle of her rainbow world she accepts them as a part of it. Her mother is her big sister. Her father is her escort sharing her fun and frolic'' The lady who came into the spot light of public favor via Bloomington, H., chatted a moment of the Big l Sticks-advantage of the small town as a background to breadth of under standing and analysis. Then, quite suddenly, she returned to her girl subject.
 tJust think" she ,enthused, "of the material with which the modern miss can work. She may have all the sweetness, the daintiness, the whole | someness of her old-fashioned sister | but with the addition of the freedo orn | of thinking, acting and being herself. | She begins where the other stood half l way along life's journey. | ''To those addicted to paSts Miss | Modern Ma2d may appear a bit crass | at times. But better crass than | cringing."