Evening journal., 1922-11-01
The Girl of Today
Cribs Editorial was Written by woman.)

Girls and girlhood are today the
cynosure of civilization. Woman
was the elimination of creation, and
the last is become first, according &c
prophecy. Girls are today the hope
and the despair OF humanity. They
are the rebels of readjustment. They
are the Joker II. the pack OF progress
Their potential possibilities are
greater for good OF for evil They
are more diversified, more demo
cratic, more dangerous and more de-
lightful, more daring and more dar-
ling, more damned and more adored
today than ever before. And withal.
they are more lovely and more low
able. Girls are more differentiated.
The ordinary girl is more frivolous
more thoughtless, more irresponsible
The sub-social girl Is more sensuots,
more sordid, more uncaringly soaked
in degeneracy But the finer type Of
girl was never so fine as now.
In their diversity is their deliver
ance. Diversity is the dividing line
drawn by the divining rod OF des-
tiny. The best girlhood was never
so good. The bad were never worse.
And the mediocre are always in
ane. Tho highest type OF girlhood
today is brighter. finer. more whole
some, more genuine. more intelligent
and interesting, more eelf-sufficient
and unselfsh, mora talented, more
tolerant, more tender more true,
more sweetly womanly than ever be-
fore.
The status OF humanity runs 70 ex
tremes. Society in general is worse,
but individuals are better. We have
more good people today than ever
before. Perhaps that is why lead
ers loom so lightly upon the racial
horizon.
Young girls of the average Amerl-
can family were never more cultured
or more capable. Poise and self
control are characteristic. They
demand higher ideals of conduct and
usefulness from young men. This
type of girl hasn't any use for a
loafer or a buffer or a duffer. A
clean character and the power OF ac-
compllshment are her requirements.
And whatever either sex demands of
the other. It gets. II is the girl who
doesn't demand anything hut sex
who is the curse of the age and all
girlhood is suffering anathema be-
cause Of her.
Girls never dressed so hygienically
so simply or sensibly. A displayed
leg is better than a displaced liver
An exposed chest isn't as great a
crime as a compressed lung. No
sane girl is going TO display a warp
I'd anatomy, and II near-nudity will
give C. return to normal naturalness
well, other civilizations have lived
through II. With normal bodies
nay come a normal girlhood
Everyone has to admit that mod
,rn girlhood isn't normal, according
o nature or previous standards. Be
cause of their increased contacts with
he world. their greater fund OF edu-
.ation and experience, their forced
and Independence at an {
arlier age, the girls have gotten a
ap ahead OF the game-and know
[. Too much publicity has made
iris realize their importance, and 1t
las rather spoiled them. Like any
-oung animal. they are little bit
ready because of so much attention.
Youth always anticipates realization
n life by about 10 years Adults (
eem never rightly to interpret their ]
and try to repress in
tead of to train their perfectly nat !
raj propensities. Their very re- [
mency often reacts against them. (
This is an age of public manipula- |
on. Follies. fads, freaks. strange !
inns and ologies are foisted upon the q
ublic because there are so many