The evening world., 1921-01-19

ATTACKS on the manners and morals,
fnRsdress and the didoes, of the mod
or6 maiden, uttered publicly by four
APOSTLES of Princeton. They include
.Itbn Grier Hfbben. President OF the
fversity: Mrs. Katharine Fullerton
Garould, short story writer essuyist
Snd wife OF the Professor of Eng
liah, Gordon Hall Gerould; +. Scott
Fitzgerald, recent graduate and most
promising OF our younger novel sts:
and, latest critic of all, MIS- Augustus
TrOwbridge, wife Of the Professor OF
physics.
WI Mrs Trowbridge only the other day
warned Wellesley girls against such
sins as all-night dances, lack OF
a chaperons, Hp-sticks and rouged
cheeks, jazzy music, the vulgar.ty
and revolving badness OF petting
parties'' and between dance automO-
bile riders.
"Dresses with backs which allow no
decent place for the mans hand were
originated for those Of low caste; then
they we're copied by ladies'" she scold-
= ed MANY mothers allow smoking and
p drinking and all-night dancing with no
discreet chaperons for fear OF making
n their daughters unpopular"
a. Another one Of the faculty wives,
me brilliant and incisive Mrs Gerould.
voiced similar criticism in an article
Atlantic Monthly.
.,-t when a nice girl behaves as il her
e.. own morals were MI she is to blame"
) declared the author OF Modes and
Manners and Vain Obaauons" And
she intimates that only the most care
rm mothers perhaps can make rea-
sonably sure that their girls win be
decently dressed. will not kiss their
partners on the ballroom floor, will not
carry TASKS Of whisiiey in their bags,
will not spend the hours from l to
A NJ. alone with some youth in a road
ster jaunting about the country with
radius from home OF fifty miles" she
quotes girls as saying that 'men won't
dance with you II you wear a corset"
and she quotes the boys as PLAYING
ott4ue TO Adams form and putting all
n The blame on the girls since they
want you to make love to them"
DR.. Hibben is more gallant. But
Young men are only human" he
~ pointed out 70 me in an interview,
-and when American mothers send
their daughters half dressed to eve
ming functions anything may happen.
Modern laxity has its beginning in
= the dress of the girls Of to-day.
what is a young man to think
when he asks a girl TO dance with
him and she Immediately takes one
Of the attitudes prescribed by the
ballroom fashion Of to-day? She is
the first TO assume this position; he
would not assume it toward her.
I'm what she wears. in the subjects
ahe discusses with men. in the very
language she uses there is no reserve,
there Is no illusion. The respect Of
young men for girls who thus dress
and dance and talk is not merely les
sening II Is lost; it is gone"
And these diatribes are cquAted
and surpassed by the picture vt the
Popular Daughter drawn by Scott
Fitzgerald, representative Of the
younger generation at Princeton,
Amory, hero of his first novel,
This Side OF Paradise" is handy
confident that ''any popular girl he
met before s he might quite possib y
kiss before L." He saw girls doing
things that even in his memory
would have been impossible eating
! O'Clock after dance supperS in inn
possible cafes, talking of every side
Of Life with an air half OF earnest
ness, half OF mOckery yet with a fur
tive excitement that Amory cOnsid o.
cred stood for a real moral let-dOwn.
But he never realized how widespread
u was until he saw the cities be
tween New York and Chicago as one
vast iuVeInlR intrigue AmOry
~came into consss n contact with
that great current American phenom-
Snon, the 'petting party" He nick
named the hand knitted, sleeveless
jerseys "petting shirts"
Princeton has nothing kind 10 say
about the girl OF to-day! Absolutely
.,Eothing! It's very sad
F.. But do you remember Elbcrt Hub
baFd's explanation OF ST. Paul's opn-
ion OF women? Said Fra Elbortus
There must have been some woman
p, who didn't do a thing 10 little Paul"
Can II be that the Princeton man
IS too frail an affair 10 be- trusted
.s IN this world Of Tavaging girls Has
his imagination the Impress ionahility
Of plotting paper, his heart the com
H"gtib lity of celluloid flm9 L. II
impossible FOR him 10 say, "Gct thee
bshind me-, DClnah,"9 Is m, rdvorito
indoor sport AT Princeton the game
of. Temptation, temptation, who's
got a temptation -
Far be II from a girl--a modern
Rird-to hint these things. But I shall
suggest TO my friends who happen
tn be invited 10 dances at Princeton
this winter that they go choste'v
snpa~cTcd IN moth p huhhn r1 p..
tics and voils .vo arc etr.n' '.'
us he mercVul and l0t ms rN ..
dear Princeton a chance 10 'nN brgt
something else besides petticoats and
petting parhoA