The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-05
RACHEL BROTHERS GIVES HER CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH, AS SENSIBLE, INTELLIGENT, MORAL AND HUMAN
IS ABUNDANTLY POPULAR
Nicety Forbade Differentiated Girl Exercising Beautiful Freedom En- joyed by Moderp Miss, Winch Is Characteristic Charm
And so wel'll hear them Ger and o'er-- l The generation gone before Our modern decadence deplore!

Our modern decadence deplore!
 NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The modern girl stands acquitted. "
 No less an authority than Rachel Brothers, playwright and author, ex- tends her clean bll of health as a person of good sense, bully pal and the very highest type of feminity.
 The modern girl, according to Miss Brothers, is far superior, in every feminine attribute, to her sisters of bygone days. Her advice to the girl of today is uphold the best stand ards of 1921 young womanhood if you would be popular While she does not give her unqualified ap- proval to the "flapper" this eminent woman author includes this much abused young girl in her general designation of the modern girl
 "The girl of today deserves the center of the stage from the stand point of both progress and human interest" said Miss Brothers. 'She is so honest, so sensible, so sane, and she understands what you are talking about. She has valuable opinions of her own on important subjects If she does not understand you can explain, and she will grasp your meaning with certainty and speed.
 "There were so many things the old fashioned girl did not dare fath- om Nicety forbade her being hu- man. She missed that beautiful free dom of living and of eXpression-the today There is nothing quite as magnetic as naturalness ill a girl
 Mine times out of ten the natural young girl is abundantly popular The tenth time happens to be a misfit, in which the unhappy possessor of a splendd courage of self-expressiou is handicapped by wrong instinct. Propensity for doing and saying the wrong thing in an obvious way is an inheritance with some of us.
 "There are happier birthrights, however. For example, that strange intangible, yet very real something which we call personal magnetism is positively innate. We either have it or we do not It can never be ac- quired in the seed. though possession of the seed of it admits of propaga- tion. We can become more magnetic by exercising and developing our gift.
 "The od-fashioned girl had this birthright of magnetism. There was the most popular girl in the crowd in hoop skirt days as there is in short-skirt days. There was always the toast of the town-the belle of the ball.
 "The difference is old-fashioned girls were compelled, by constructing bonds of convention, to suppress their effervescence, to subdue their originality and personality. They were popular as playmates, as sweet hearts, as wives
 ToDAY's GIRL DIFFERENT "The miss of today is all of these and more-she is a companion. She may not show all, the conventional deference once the prerogatiye of | age. but she give immeasurably more-camaraderie, the contagiou of youth. Instead of shutting her elders out from the magic circle of her rainbow world she accepts them as part of it. Her mother is her big sister. Her father is her escort, sharing her fun and frolic."
 The lady who came into the spotlight of public favor via Bloom fngton, H., chatted a moment of the Big Sticks-a advantages of the small town as background to breadth of