San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-12
GIRLS OF TODAY.

To The Editor:
What difference in many of the
girls of today and fifty years ago.
Fifty years ago. girls from three years
of age up to eighteen were proud to
wear a sun bonnet and thought they
were not dressed up unless they had
one on. Today it is different. Some
girls think that il would be dis
grace to wear n sun bonnet. Fifty
years ago most any young girl from
ten years old and up could cook n
good meal. Today there are some that
hardly know how to fry water, so to
speak. 1t is no wonder there are so
many divorces.
Fifty years ago. IL n young girl
was compelled to have her hair cut
off on account of some kind of sick
ness. or il it came out on account
of same. it would grieve her almost to
death. but it is quite different today.
If some of them couldn't have their
hair bobbed they would either go crazy
or commit suicide. A nice head of
hair is the beauty of an woman and
when they cut it off they have de-
stroyed the most important thing per-
tanning to their beauty.
Fifty years ago. If a, girl used
whitening. as it was called in those
days. she wasn't considered to be very
much and would have been the whole
talk of the neighborhood, but it is
not the case today. There is not one
girl out of twenty-five that don't use
powder. color her lips and eyclashes
and eyebrows and many of them begin
this from the time they are ten years
old and it is very common thing to
see young girls going along on the
public streets these days with their
pocketbooks that contain their make
up and many of them can he seen
using it from one to three times while
they are walking the distance of one
block. And then some will wonder why
| there are SO many divorces.
Fifty years ago, q young lady would
| wait for her sweetheart to pop the
question, but today if the young man
doesn't ask the girl to marry him in n
week from the time they first met
each other the girl will and they will
be sueing for a divorce in three weeks
time and think nothing of it. Fifty
years ago a young lady and her sweet
heart would 20 fifteen miles in a
buggy to an old fashioned shindig
They would dance "birdie in the cage
and -four hands around" and you
could drive a team of horses between
them, but today things have changed
Considerable many girls will grab hold
| of the first fellow she meets, perhaps
never saw him before. and they vii
make for some public dance hal
where there is nothing played but JAZZ
and rag time and when flapper steps
out on the floor she is grabbed by {
jelly-bean and they stick so tight to
gether you couldn't drive an iroI
wedge between them. Then why shoul,
we wonder at so many divorces?
] Fifty years ago most young girl
would get up at 4 o'clock in the morn
ing, cook breakfast, feed the hog
chickens, ducks, geese and milk tn,
cows, but il is not so today. Most al
girls are out sky larking around nj
to midnight then they will lay in be-
until IL o'clock the next day. That il
one reason for SO many divorces.
Fifty years ago girls wore real sur
enough clothes and money would no
have been any inducement for them Il
have gone on the street dressed a
many of them do today. Some o
them-the way they dress--are sim
ply out of sight. You can hardly Sc
any clothes Mt all. believe that som,
would 60 rs nude as when they wer
born il the law would permit them. S,
how can there be anything else blu
divorces expected?
Fifty years ago young girls woult
usually take the advice of thei
parents and they would go to theu
and ask their opinion on differen
things, but today it seems to be JUS
the opposite. Most girls of today won
take the advice of their parents an,
will do as they please and will tel
them that they don't know anythin,
and that they are fogey, out of styl'
and n back number. So don't be sur
prised at so many divorces.
saw a young lady n few days age
that was driving an automobile on ont
of the downtown crowded streets
take both of her hands off of the steer
ing wheel, open her pocloet book, taxi
out her powder puff. putting the pow
der on her face with one hand an,
holding a mirror in the other ant
trusting the car to run only on genera
principles. That is what ! call "goine
some" Then some will wonder why
there are so many accidents and di
| vorces.
"Create in me clean heart and
renew n right spirit within me"
Psalms, 81 10.
JOHN H. KETNER.