Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-15

New York, April tb<--Jet those VINO
, bemoan tho bold. bad ways OF the
, modern napper take heart. In few
mora years, sho will be enduring her
share OF grief anh envy ~ IN cyen |
, wilder generation Taps darfDKly before
! hor outra sed vision. Twas ever thus
History shsws that evsry sKo has had
: its recaicitrant youug people who have
rebelicd against tho discipline Of their
elders and caused great anguish tol
! t&s pubIlc-spirited.
Take n few samples III the loud
lnpspts on tho subject of happing re-
!, Gently appearing IN our daily news
: pafers and compare them with thoss
/, written NJ various periods in the post
: fpieuty sro 10 be found In the archives
! Of our libraries )and you viii nj once De
: struck. by their uncspDy sirnllarify
: lIasten 60 this:
',rhs girf Of tho period IL creature
who dies her hair and pein's her face
: aa tho FIRST articles ~ her personsl re-
iigion: whose sol. IDEA of life is plenty
= ad fun and luxury. and whose oress
= iia tho object Of such thought ana 10
= ktelieet an she possesses Tho girl OF
!, the poriod has done away WIN soeh
moral nuf'lshuess as connidersnon iof
others. or regard for counsel or re-
- ibtIke q" III sensible fashion Nus
+, a gown on; ~ the mud. she raises mere
:, midway 20 her knee Shs lake
slang n. bifbiy M a man. ana ~ pro
=, ference leads the conversstion 70
u doubtful subjects
|, IL n we're no, for tho on, word
!. midway" one would ~rsrcsiy Sues,
thns this v;triOiic criticism was penped
.. by Mrs. y. Lynn linton ouco popular
q TuRilsh novelist, ms snriy ar 1853. we
,. ara 90 nncustorned 20 having ths isss
/. WAR blamed for all the giddy behavior
an OF tho present that 10 Ia something Of
- a shock 20 discover that tho nepp>rs
.f,l or osher eras vers airo considered
fhopeiessly waywnrd. As matter of
=, fact, there has probably never been
- a yenr since the days Of Adam and
" Eve when sorno quer5lous voice has
4. not t,een lifted up against the needless
or dissipations of youth
b Thus. some Mrs. Grundy. complain
~- tng severai decades ago on the wa,
a, girls dressed tn attract attention. add
ed philosophicslly:
a. But has not In every epoch, IN
v race-old instinct Of the fernale to De
,b deck her body 80 as TO attract IN
ma male. through whom alone she ca
or, achieve her destiny. led 10 eKtrerne
n extravagances. even vulgarities
tn Doubtless every savage tribe harbor
r. some shameless mink, who. by M
or daring manner OF putting on or tai
nm ing of a. single bead. brings down q
u,e her head the Walls OF wrath OF u
han older women, who wonder what n
.nts mother can be thinking Of"
as Bad Girls Of the Eighties.
Even the pr1m eighties we're
m sufficiently prim to satisfy many
ates the good citizens OF the period A
o cordlng TO Mrs. John Sherwood
. l.. Manners and Social Ueages" (1ss
lteo observers Of society IN New York a
gas Washington IN those days found
neF- TO be-"a record Of drunkenne
Irritation, bad manners and goss
nere backbiting, divorce and SANDER.
me Far back In 1919. apparently. co
: N. ditions were just as bad. In this ye
mu- we md Mis- Emma Willard rnakil
eN- an Address to tho Public, parttcula
III ly the Members OF the Legislature
New York" IN which she bsseecn
~ that body to contribute some insta
= means for educating the young
-, males of the state "as possiI
= :, panacea for the fr1volity OF the tim
Not content with doing nothing
~, promote their country's welfare,
declared. like pampered children, 70
revel in It's prosperity and scatter
to the winds with wanton profusi
tell and. still worse, they emprison
very source by diffusing a contempt
AZ -,,r Lob N Measure IN
business: within her tample. in
. fiance OF the laws Of God and M
they have erected the Idol Of fashi
and upon her altar they sacrifice W
shameless rites whatever Is sac
10 virtue OF religion
II Miss Janet Richards. lectui
recently charged that good bre
ing" seems to be a thing Of the p'
I'd and one can only infer that moth
id no longer take the trouble 10 IN
UT into their children's minds the
or high ideals of womanhood wh
es were once given to them" But as
nd back in the past as 1884 we find \
ne Sherwood registering the same CT
no plant. THE American MANN
ell wrote Mrs. Sherwood. treats
ng beautiful daughter as II she wer
or very common piece OF Delft ind
as and as If she could drift down
he stream OF life. knocking all OF
nd vessels to pieces, but escaping I'M
no herself"
Chaper0nes Always Myth
NJ Much Of the modern fiapper's "
,rs wardness is attributed to lack
o,s chaperonage on the part OF
81 mother. but as a matter OF
,a+ chaperones in this country 5
a. always TO have been largely m
led Even in pre-Revolutionary days.
me are told by Mrs. Alice Morse E;
nd in her interesting book, Colo
ter Times and Good Wives" young
- escorted young girls 10 dam
II parties and also accompanying &
the home after the dance was finish
in And although the automobile.
oil which is ascribed so much cur
tly. iniquity, was not known in q
len days, handed driving eyide
srs. was. Judging by some protests OF
70 period.
ser -
led II