Evening journal., 1922-11-01

| people in 1t. People follow some
thing OF everything, be II only flop
ping golosh. They are not individ
uals, they are imitators. They don't
think. They just react. Youth is
voracious for life. 1t tries every
| thing once. With all the lures loose
in the world. the wonder is that the
youngsters are not worse than they
are.
The trend OF publicity has been TO
pollute the youth OF the land. II
Is only as private individuals that
we know the good in our girlhood.
Much of the wonderful work OF COM
batting the trend OF the times and
building up a young womanhood OF
which any race may well be proud
goes unpublished. Youth has re-
acted. and reacted strongly, stagger-
ingly. to the same powerful infiu-
ences that have swayed strong men
and women. 1t is the testing time
Of personal integrity. It is the age
when the fruit OF the tree OF knowl-
edge is ripe or rotten.
Everyone has had much to say
about the girl of today who giggles
and gyrates her girlish way through
the world to the amazement of mas
culinity and the chagrin of the more
massive, masseured and marcelled
femininlty, who have criticized, cuss
ed and condemned, but have not an
alyzed her nor understood her nor
helped her.
Man has always maintained that
woman didn't have soul, and now
he is afraid he may have told the
truth about it--and that the soul he
has always professed to possess he
may have TO assume sole RESPONSE
bility for instead OF expecting a soul
less soul-mate to sanctify it by asso-
citation and slip him a seat on the
soft side of st. Peter. The feline fe-
males whom the favor OF fortune or
some fool man has safeguarded from
the friction of life are too paralyzed (
with protection to understand the
problems OF the girl of today while
the acrimonious frumps or the
freeze-outs of affinity regard the rest I
of femininity as vain vampires. The
passovers and the prudes, and the
woman who is tied 10 her own apron
strings never did approve OF any,
thing youthfully. refreshingly. allur-
ingly girlish. anyway, no matter what
their mode of dress or manner OF
conduct. Sexless egomaniacs. OBJ
sessed with their own individuality,
don't realize that there Is any prob
lem except the projecting of their
own personality
Then there is the woman who
hasn't enough business OF her own
10 keep her from trying TO boss the
of everyone else. And of
all the pests, the professional busy :
body with the social uplift bug is
he most pertiferous. The desire to
dominate some down-and-out girl. II
he can't put It over on some down
rodden male, and a morbid curl
,sity, Is more OF a motive than any
of motherliness. There
.lso is the business woman, who is
iometimes a blessing. What the
world gains, the life stream OF the
ace loses. II is a rare woman who
an be a good wife, a good mother,
homemaker. a social unit and a
BUSINESS asset. Trying to be all OF
hem is Misunderstanding and
lesexing. These classifications in
Jude about nine-tenths of the wo-
nan. All of them have their side :
ines, but these are their main align
nents with life as it impinges upon
irlhood. That leaves one-tenth a
1.-THE unto the universal good. 1t Is
pom that one-tenth of our woman
God that the hope OF our girlhood
epends.
Jealousy has ever been woman's