Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-09

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phy the Pennsyluanid oirls-that Is, tho
girls Hpin0 In or near Philadelphia
are so much better looking than the
Jorscy maidsf I an visittn0 in Neto
Jersey noio, and, crossing the ferry
ttoice day, haze been struck bv the
general absence of good looks among the
A girl of just fair pretttness stands out
like locomotive headlight among lot
of tallo,o candles. And they don't knoto
hoo to dress, either. Hoo about ttf
N. B. 8.
The battle of the Jersey maid against
her sophisticated sister on the Phila-
delphia side of the Delaware is on.
Answering the challenge above,
which was priRted yesterday, prominent
New Jersey Women rise to say that
Philadelphia girls are not prettier,
sweeter or better dressed than their
own girls.
As their first shot in the charge for
supremacy they fire the following ques-
tion into the heights Of Manayunk, out
on the golf links Of the Main Line or
wheresoever it may choose to land:
Why do Philadelphia youths nightly
swarm the ferries to court the Jersey
crowding for room on the Pennsylvania
side of the Delaware?
Before the enemy has a chance to
answer, shock troops assemble on the
heights Of Merchantville, Maple Shade,
Gloucester, Camden and Collingswood
and let 60 q second volley. They
answer their own question.
Here 1t is:
Like Old. Time Beauties Best
Philadelphia boys go to Jersey for
good old time kind there. Peaches
and cream compilations without the aid
Of the drug store. Up-to -dateness In
dress, with enough maidenly modesty
thrown in to make it attractive.
Homely? Well, just ask the mar
riage license clerk in Merchantville.
Unpopular? Why, they're building
a bridge so the ferry boats won't be
so crowded with Philadelphia youths
around the witching hour Of In the
evening!
And speaking of the ferry boats, Mrs.
Robert p. Finley, president of the
Merchantville Suffrage Club, draws at
tention to the fact that 1t takes two
States to cross the Delaware.
Amy persons she says, "'who
judge the women they see on the ferry
boats as typical Of the women of New
Jersey are not qualified to judge the
women of that State, for there are as
many women from Philadelphia as from
New Jersey on the ferries" .
'"The best answer / can give" as
serts Mrs. Frank w. Henry, president
of the Parent Teachers Association Of
Merchantville, ''is to refer you to the
young men Of Philadelphia who come
to Jersey for wives and sweethearts.
Mrs. Raymond Donges, Of Merchant
vile, wife of Judge Donges, said:
II think 1t is foolish for anyone to
say or assume that Philadelphia girls
are any different from the New Jersey
girls. 1t is ridiculous to say that To-
cality has anything to do with poise,
character, beauty and ability.
81 have Travelled in many foreign
countries and all over America and find
that locality makes very little differ
ence. The girl who goes to business
and who Is in modest circumstances
is the high class girl, Industrious ana
with ambition, much more SO than those
girls who stay home, for they are most
likely to be careless in cultivating am
bition, and they do not amount to as
much as the busy girl, whether in Phil
adelphia or New jersey"
Mrs. Austin Pettigrew, member Of the
Collingswood Board of Education,
brings the New Jersey high school girl
into the limelight.
"In speaking of the high school
girls" she said, at is ridiculous to
infer that the Philadelphia or any
Pennsylvania girls can be compared with
our Jersey daughters, either in beauty,
harmony, modesty, artistic tempera-
ment or conduct.
"Our girls here do not go to ex-
tremes in dress they are modest, they
know how to dress we'll and in season,
they are the brightest and most sensible,
prettiest and best.
"Just compare the Collingswood,
Haddonfeld, Woodbury. and Haddon
Heights high schools with the Philadel-
phia high lassies, as I have done, and
1t will take only one look to see that
New Jersey carries beauty honors."
Insists Jersey Girls Lead
Mrs. James d. Walls, president Of
the Collingswood Woman's Club, adds :
New Jersey girls lead In good fea-
lures, sweet voices, pretty and charm
ing faces and the art Of dress, espe-
cially where Philadelphia girls are con-
cerned. IL you want proof, send the
Philadelphia girls over to Jersey and
line them up against our beauties.
And our girls are not hayseeds, as
was said by a Philadelphia woman re-
Gently, who shortly after apolDogized for
Members and oificsss Of the women's
clubs Of Woodbury. Fare all OF the
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