The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-16
STORIES BORN OF
FEMALE VANITY
Wild Tales of "Pettine"
Bosses Largely Imagi-
native

Every year. writes n department
store employment manager in the
Milwaukee journal, thousands of
| young women and girls come 10 me
looking for work. The first thing
ask them is, why did you leave
your last position >"
"My employer insulted me-" saws a
pretty stenoErapher
II quit to save my seif-respect.
says waitress who had been work.
ing IN an Ice cream parlor.
The man ! used TO work FOR got
drunk every 80 often and then he
made love to me-" saws girl who
had been office girl In phntog-
rapher's studio
Listening TO the stories Of these
girls ono gets the impression that a
constantly Increasing number Of
business men are making love TO
Nonographers and that "petting" the
office girl is becoming Americas
favorite indoor sport.
Alarmed by these stories Of abused
iominini'v wr seriously ask. what
Is 10 blame for this condition ."
Tho answer 20 my mind IS: Too
''''' NiAAhAi'll III N'p many rem
inine heads
There are mon. of course. who
make improper advances 10 the girls
in their employ, There are men who
take liberties with their steuog-
raphers. And there always have
hecn' But | believe this class is n
constantly decreasing minority.
How then can we explain the in
credsing number Of injured inno-
cence' stories from the girls who
work for n living?
ScS Appeal Oycrstrcsscd
This Is not due to any change for
the worse in the business mans
morals. The change has come about
IN the mind of the modern girl. Her
Imagination is overdeveloped In the
natter Of her sex appeal to the men
who work beside her.
Perhaps this is not the fault Of the
girls. Modern influences certainly
overemphaSize the matter ot SEX
rhe plays ana movies the girls Of to-
day sees the fiction she reads. focus
attention on sex, sex, and moro sex
Tho dance, the style OF dress. all
emphasize the girls sex attraction.
And then, to aEGravate matters.
the reformer enters the field. and
with loud voice. and much black
Ink, starts his attack against the
overemphasis OF sex. He decries the
'hedroom farces." holds IN his
hands In horror at the "sala cious
moving pictures" viilifiea the TOD
die and the "shimmy," attacks the
too realistic novels and condemns
the brief skirts and shorn tresses.
The net result is that he pours oil on
thief ire by keeping everybody's at
tention rivited on the subject.
Not long ago n "flapper" applied
10 me for n job. She said she had
been private secretary TO real
estate man.
why did you leave a good fob
like that" I asked her.
look OF righteous virtue came
into her face; for a minute she did
not speak. and then, in stage
whisper:
Because I would not sacrifice my
honor"
Danger Is Imagined.
I felt like laughing. Her words
were so obviously stolen from
cheap novel or a "snappy" magazine,
Certainly this melodra matte express
sion did not come uninspired from
the mind OF such butterfly. The
tone she used. her words. her feel
ings were artificial beyond doubt
But She was serious. and the eNpla-
nation must be that her "perilous
situation" was 90.44 per cent pure
imagination
May ! be pardoned for offering n
word OF advice to the business girl
who fancies her employer Is over
attentive? The next time the boss"
is debating to you and his voice trails
off into silence, and you look up TO
find his ewes on your face with IN
expression OF enchantment, II may be
that he is madly in love with you-
hut II is more than likely anticipa-
tton OF the hunting trip to the north
woods that he is planning for the
fail.
Some other day when the boss"
eNcitedly calls you into the office,
his face shining with Toy, n may
mean that his heart Is beating wildly
for you alone. on the other hand II
probably means that he has Just read
in the sporting extra Of a new home
run record OF Babe Ruth.
And when the boss" is despond-
ent and downCast, don't Jump at the
conclusion that his heart is broken
because he cannot make you love
him, You may think his gloom is
due 10 worry over how he may di-
Vorce his wife and win YOU for his
own, But more than likely he has
Just received word of another 2-cent
drop In the May wheat market.
You are important, little "flapper,"
tremendously important. But In spite
NJ the teachings OF modern sex fic-
tion, in spite of the eternal triangle"
play and the "heart-throb" movie,
don't let your imagination run away
with you!