The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-08
MS SPECIAL FEATURES OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
Are You an AdUice- Giuer?
Nou, Listen to These Words!

avoid bank as they would plague
yet his son may choose banking as
his career, and make millions at 1t,
or a successful lawyer may insist
upon his son taking his advice and
studying. law, because he has found
it a successful calling, and the boy
may prove rank failure at the bar.
Mother Knows
Every mother in the world feels
that she could secure her daughters
everlasting happiness if only her
girls would be guided by her advice
in marriage. She is sure that Mary
will be far better off If she espouses
Tom Millionbuclks, who is dull and
stupid instead of John Poorman, who
is brilliant and fascinating. She is
certain that Jane is bringing mis-
fortune down upon her own head
by electing to unite herself with a
temperamental musician, instead of a
staid, plodding business man.
But Mary has some popularity in
her makeup that causes her to pre-
fer an, entertaining life companion
to limousine, and James husbands
little eccentrieities merely amuse her
instead of getting on her nerves,
as they would have on mother s,
how it happened that her daughters
own bunch about the kind of a man
to marry won out when it was OPP
posite to her own taste and judg-
ment.
The old who think that the young
should sit in awe at their feet, and
treasure their every word as a pearl
of wisdom, forget that the world is
progressing, and that the knowledge
of today makes the knowledge of
yesterday foolishness.
Grandmother Wise
Grandmother is sure that she
knows all about bringing UP babies
because she had 10, most of whom
died in their second summer, but
that has not shaken her faith in the
fact that she knows all about child
nature. So she tells granddaughter
not to pay any attention to this silly
rev tangled theory about germs, and
sterilizing things, and not rocking
the baby, and feeding it at stated
times, and not giving it cucumber
to cut It's teeth on, and she is hurt
and grieved when granddaughter
pins her faith to baby book in
stead of taking her advice.
How can the old advise the young
even about conduct when the stan
dards have changed SO completely,
and the things that were shocking
and horrible even few years ago,
are good form today? If, as some
body has said, modesty is merely
matter of geography, propriety
is pretty much a matter of the day
and hour.
Then and Now
If mother had worn a skirt up
to her knees, and jazzed, and driven
a high-powered car, and talked to
men in the free and easy manner
with which girls talk to men nova
days, she would have been regarded
as bold, brazen thing, outside of
the pale of decent society. But
daughter does these things with i'm
punity. and in her short skirts, and
her toddling and her joyriding, she is
just as modest and proper as mother
was in her dust sweeping skirts, and
her lancers, and her buggy riding.
When we come down to brass
tecks, there is very little advice the
old can give the young that is of
any value to them. We who have
travelled along the road can put up
a few warning signboards, and erect
few red lanterns for general dan
ger signals, but even they are of
small help, for every year the road
changes, and SO the most we can say
to the young is: Beware of the
dangerous curves. Drive slowly, and
keep on your skid chains, and God
protect vou"