The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23
NOT GIRLS BUT BOYS
 GOING TO THE DOCS
English Authority Comes to the Defense of the Mod ern Young Man.

London. Sept. 23. - The modern young thing who uses a Hp-stick and smokes smokes in the most public of public may now slip silently into a corner and pursue her modern reflections | undiSutrbed.
 Literary tastes among the critics have changed.
 target of much comment, the subject of much type-setting. Criticism of the 1921 flapper was quite the mode of the hour.
 But it seems that the male of the species is equally deadly, which is to say that he is going to the dogs, and l taking the future of the nation with him, willy-nilly.
 Many people are saying so. public ly, in bold type. The Times printed many letters on the subject, all start male youth of the day in many ways most of which boiled down to i'm pertinent young puppy" One gath CTS that the youth of 1921 had little of There were several of the latter writ ing the papers from the writing rooms of their silent clubs before the | crusade ended
 'The Mother of One of Them" takes | up their defense. She admits her son Is some, even many of the things Old ! Etonian charges, but the war did it 'If he is independent, casual. un- conventional Gas he undoubtedly is)," she writes, ''he is also straight, honorable and clean minded a young man who can be trusted and respect ed, and his many friends seem all very much of the same type. After all these are the things that really mat ter, and fail to find the intolerance of authority that most of your corres- pondentS complain of.'
 To the Defense of Youth. l Sir Sidney Low, himself of the old school, and a critic and publicist of high standing, comes to the defense of Today. He says that "eIder1y gen. tlemen" have been erupting into the newspapers that it is very sad about the manners, behavior and character of the young folk about them.'
 For my part he says, "I think some of the differences are not symptoms of decadence but improve ment.
 Youthful manners are a little rough and 'casual-a1 modern man. ners are. When they meet a young lady they say: 'Cheerio, old thing in stead of Madam, your most obedient, or something of that kind. They cigarettes everywhere; their speech is largely made up of rather meaning less slang.
 Nevertheless, I do not think theil tastes and morals are worse thar those of their predecessors; I thinl they are better.
 Thirty or forty years ago boys. a Oxford used to entertain each othel at wine parties, sometimes colliquial ly. but correctly described drinks
 "Our young fellows no longer car, They do not, I believe consider i witty to exchange horrible 'smol1ini room stories.'
 ''They are not respectful to ladies, haps not. They have more oppor tunity of meeting girls than thei fathers before them, and meetin them on footing of familiarity an easy intimacy.
 PIatonic Friendships.
 This camaraderie may be carrie too far; but there is a good deal to b said for it
 "It dilutes that overmastering sens of sex which was an obsession wit men and women of the past Youn disturbed by the thought that the may become husbands or wives C lovers.
 Tt did not seem to occur to any body in those days that men an women of marriageable age coul have any interest in one another say tof the matrimonial or the amorou kind. But the modern girl is not pre- occupied with love and marriage. Sh has so many other things to thin about-her career, her intellectual an material activities, her amusements.
 She may be so keenly interested a young man as a partner on tn tennis court, but it seldom occurs t her to consider him as a possibl partner for life. The young man ca regard her with the same detachmen To him woman is neither a goddes nor a domestic angel, nor perilou enchantress, but just an average hu man being.
 Modern young men are alert, oper minded, active, courageous (who ca doubt that), eager and quick to learI impatient of social snobb1shness an artificial class barriers.
 Their fathers before them were nc braver men, or keener sportsmen, ( better citizens On the whole, credit able lot of young fellows who will very we'll"
 at Irwin of Kingston :.nd Daniel Dugan ofsAfbany were noRfna.sd it ITS Supreme CoEr. justices at the Dcmt ciaI district, which was held in A