Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-28
WINIFRED BLACKS
" SPECIAL ARTICLE
"A New Heroine"
Copyright. 1921. By Newspaper Feature servte.

She hates her mother. Oh, she just
simply hates her! No. Mother hasn't
done anything in particular. she hasn't
thwarted her ambition, or nipped love s
young dream in the bud. or made a
fool of herself and her family.
Not at all.
Most people like Mother and a good
many people love her. She's amlable
and kindly and 10 bad to look at and
really rather clever, but Daughter
simply hates the way she does her
hair and the color she likes and some
of Mothers friends-they really are
too terrible for words.
Aunts with shawls over their Shout
ders and uncles with walkingsticks-
oh, regular old fossils. Daughter would
suffocate if she had to stay under the
same roof with them for 81 hours.
And Mother has such quaint old
fashioned ideas.
She never tries to rule Daughter, oh,
no, Even she has sense enough for
that-but she does attempt to influence
her. Sometimes she even has the tie
merity to give Daughter advice, as if
Daughter didn't know twice as much
about everything as Mother could even
hope to know.
SO, Daughter is going to leave home
and go to the great wicked city and
live her own life"
And she won't be bored with tele-
phone messages. or kilograms. or let
ters-ch, of course. Christmas she may
phone a message-if she remembers
and if she has time and if it isn't quite
too much Of a bore. But Mother
might as well make up her mind to
getting used to letting Daughter live
her own life. and then Daughter goes
on and lives it and what a life it is
with what strange birds for company.
Ladies' with a past, ladies with a dark
green future, ladies with a purple pres
pnt. gamblers. race touts, adventures,
bogus noblemen. would-be artists, little
brothers Of the rich. little sisters Of the
famous, little nobodies pretending to be
s~omebodies. q regular crazy patchwork
quilt of a life Daughter liyes-four
chapters.
Oh, yes. she's in a book, is Daughter,
Haven't you met her? She is the
modern heroine. She's a good deal of
n shock at first. IIeroines used to be
sweet and gentle and true till death,
and they were always pretty, anyhow.
Don't expect any of these things Of
the modern heroine.
She hates the word gentle. she laughs
at the idea of fidelity and as for beauty,
what's that to her? She has charm
and diablerie and fascination and mys-
tery-especially when she's dressed in
q tweed skirt to her knees and a boys
coat and n pair OF gigantic goggles.
What a time she does have hating
mother and laughing at father and be-
ing bored with brother and despising
little sister and fancying herself. oh,
terribly.
But in the end she always marries
the rich man. just the same. and has
diamonds and pearls and sables and
six motor cars and two maids and all
kinds of dogs and things. and the au-
thor seems to think she's a perfect
darling.
| have just finished with one of
them. She left a perfectly good home
in one of the green shires. somewhere.
and went to London to live with the
riff-raff and became a good deal of a
riff-raffer herself and how anybody
could bear even the mention Of her
name. I can't see.
Paff, I'm glad I finished the book
Come on. let's go into the library and
find a real novel with q real heroine,
somebody you'd even want to speak to
as YOU passed her in the street.
Where do they find her-the new
heroine-these authors Of ours, today?
Not in real ife, be sure Of that.
IF there were many of her walking
around loose, this world would be
nothing but a large and c%ommodious
madhouse.