Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-21
MODERN GIRL
is REAL PAL
Rachel CrOthers, Playwright,
Praises Her Sisters.
And so we'll hear them
Ger and DER
The generation gone before
Our modern decadence deplore!


NEW YORK. Dec. 21-The modern
girl stands acquitted
No less an authority than Rachel
Crothers. playwright and author, extends
her a clean bill of health as person
of good sense. bully pal and the very
highest type of famininity.
The modern girl, according to Miss
Crothers, is far superior, in every femi-
nine attribute. 10 her sisters Of bygone
days. Her advice to the girl of today
is uphold the best standards of 1921
young womanhoOd If you would be pop
ular." While she does not give her I'M
qualified approval to the "fiapper,' this
eminent woman author includes this
much abused young girl in her general
designation of the modern girl
The girl Of today deserves the center
Of the stage from the standpoint OF both
progress and human interest" said Miss
Crothers. she Is so honest, so sensible,
so sane and she understands what you
are talking about. She has valuable
opinions Of her own on important sub
Jects. If she does not understand you
can explain, and she will grasp your
meaning with certainty and speed.
There were so many things the old
fashioned girl did not dare fathom.
Nicely forbade her being human. She
missed that beautiful freedom of living
and Of expression-the characteristic
charm Of the girl of today. There is
nothing quite as magnetic as natural
ness in a girl.
Mine times out Of ten the natural
young girl is abundantly popular. The
tenth time happens to be misit, in
which the unhappy pOssesser of a SPLEEN
did courage Of self-expression is handi-
capped by wrong instinct Propensity
for doing and saying the wrong thing
in an obvious way is an inheritance with
some Of US.
There are happier birthrights, how
ever. For example, that strange, intangi-
BILE. Yet very real something which we
call personal magnetism is positively in
nate. We either have it or we do not.
1t can never be acquired in the seed,
though possession of the seed Of it ad r.
mits Of propagation. We can become
more magnetic by exercising and devel-
oping our gift.
The old-fashiOned girl had this birth
right Of magnetism. There was the most
skirt days as there is In short skirt days.
the belle Of the ball.
The difference Is old -fa shioned girls
were compelled by constructing bonds OF
convention, TO suppress their efferves-
cence, to subdue their originality and
personality. They were popular as play
mates, as sweet hearts, as wives.
The miss of today is all OF these and
moTe-she is a companion. She may
not show all the conventional Difference
once he prerOgative of age. but she gives
immeasurably mOre-eameraderie, the
c0ntagiOn 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 sis
ter. Her father is her escort, sharing
her fun and frolic."
The lady who came into the spotlight
via Bloomington, Ill, chatted a moment
Of the Big Stieks-advantage Of the
small town as a background to breadth
Of understanding and analysis. Then,
quite suddenly, she returned TO her girl
subject.
Just think" she enthused, "of the ma
terial with which the modern miss can
work. She may have all the sweetness,
the daintiness, the whOlesomeness of her
old fashiOnd sister, but with the addition
of the freedom of thinking, acting and
being herself. She begins where the 9th
er stood half way along life's journey.
ITO those addicted TO pasts Miss Mod
ern Maid may appear a bit Grass at times
But better Grass than cringing."