The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-27
Signs of the
Times


nd coal strikes. with trouble I'm
Ireland and Russia Still being wire
lesscd To this country and our peO-
pie taking a benign and half indif-
ferent attitude towfrds their broth
er's " 1ubles. with tidinRs OF bumper
crops and the farmer facing the
new tariff and wondering how he IS
going 20 manage. tho people OF
America are confronted with much
u dire concern. I'm this immediate
ueishhorhood Of late IL mas been al
his with the price OF crude oil cut
down and the awful heat which
makes the physical being unfit 20
cope with international. national or
local questions But the strike qi!cs.
tions will be settled, ireland and
Russia are working out their own
salvation and they are sure to do Il.
The great crops from all over the
country will, despite tariff laws.
finally bring Joy and plenty to the
tillers OF the earth and I'm the spring
oil Will go up. Soon, the cool Sep
tember breezes will blow and all hu.
manlty will then be happy again.
Serious questions OF the day vie
with the ones that are sufficient 20
produce laughter, 80 silly they seem
after all There Is the flapper OF
today who Is found 10 be Of so great
Importance that newspapers and
current magazines fill their columns
about her and half-tone cuts are
made and produced OF her in all
her artlessness, Wen, It seems tho
f'apper is reallv no evil being come
among us Really the flapper seems,
Il truly analyzed. Just an inconse-
Quential young person ambitious
only for the CAV things OF life lust
rs youth has been In all ages. Hor
hobbed hair and short skirts and uu-
corsetted body is not any moro
abnormal than the grandmother Of
'0day compared with the one Of
yesterday. Grandmothers OF yester-
day were gray-haired, they parted
their locks in abe middle Of their
head and twisted the thin tendril
over their ears and wore the ends
In a smooth, tight coil at the back
caught,with a tucking- comb. Their
glasses were the oid-fashiuned spcc-
tacles that were trimmed in either
gold or silver and were either over
the eyes or pushed hp on their fore
head half the time, their dresses
were 20 their toes and they sat urlm
and dignined well back IN their
chairs. Their hats were small
bonnets that tied under the chin
with with sOmbre ribbons. In chos-
Ing their clothing all colors were
old-lady colors, either black gray
or a BIT Of purple or lavender. Grand
mothers OF today. II you see her
away from you and going In the
othe. direction. you can't toll for
your life n she is one OF tho flapper
age NJ which we speak or Just a
mairon with few more years
added Grandmother wears her
granddaughter's hat 10 the bridge
party. she dons her CAV bathing suit |
az the selshore and wears her dane /
Ing frocks out after the same lines I.
as the younger so. Gray hair. we'll |
suess not. The loT5cG' attention oe /,
those well-trained in the cult Of /
feminine tOngNrialism. attends 20 I
that and crandmother's LOCKS, II she I.
chooses them. arc either dark brown /.
or black and she wears n perma- /
nent wave as gracefully as anv Of /.
She matrons one chances 70 meet |
So let the flappar alone for she is /
lust as accountable as the grand /.
mother who is abnormal or brother /
who Is the jellvhean type and every /
one knows what that type Is. Tho /.
only one who has stayed away from f.
this ultra type now fashionable is .
rather and he is accused ~ dyiug
his hair, too, sometimes But father F.
runs pretty we'll to old-timc FORM.
II is complex age. Kathleen Nor F..
ris is writing short stories for the I
New York American about the |
American home. This popular !
writer talks OF woman's inefficiency |
or late made more so by the indus |
trial revoiutionizing OF household |
implements and so on ad infinitum 1
She asks where Is the home of yes |
terday and runs on I'm most inter- /.
esting fashion about the community 4
hNH a1N af.FHH
mothers modern and grandmother /
old-time and modern. too, lend their /
time and interest. We cry for the I
nappy medium TO come 20 us IN I.
this trying time, for we cant run /.
down the community Centers. such /.
as day nurseries cafeteras, and 50 7.
on, for they are all right IN their |
proper relationship by humanity .
But they should not detract from
the great American home Of gen +.
erauon or two ago, but they do
sometimes. There is a far cry
rom that home of long ago where
lhe family circle gathered with I
tather and mother in the evenings .
fbout the fireside and heard the T.
GOOD things from mothers and /
tather's lips that helped TO mould I.
the!r characters for other years |
when mother and father were laid |
~"oF loltNtI lIDUi tLb mt lohtEr !
youth has grown so precocious that |
they dare TO insinuate II not so i'm |
pertinent as 10 come right out and /
say, Dad. you are Just a hit old. |
fashioned I'm your way Of thinking, |
don't you think" Home " a place |
sometimes where one eats and sleeps |
ana changes ones clothes. or course /
= is acceptable and appreciated 20 /.
nave the comforts therein, with not 4
much thought as TO how those com 1
torts were put there. The pleasures |
or life are found elsewhere, Down |
town at the moving picture shows, |
az the clubs--any where but In the /
nome. In how many homes, even |
the impc sing homes OF the wealthy /
does this sort OF thing exist? Take |
a census and see and be amazed n 1
the truth is told Kathleen Norris 4
II right about calling time. sounding |
the trumpet about the American !
nome II is time for people Of the /
pressnt generation 20 turn backward |
10 the olden time and take heed Of /
me generations before US in those 1
Things that pertained to the homo /
ureside. In some ways. parents are /
70 blame. They must indeed make /
nome attractive for the young folk |
Make II convenient always to see /
That home is ready for their chill |
dfen TO invite and entertain their I