The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-06

en of today as good, morally, as the women of the past were? And are modern women as efficlent-do they accomplish as much as their grand mothers did?
 IAN INTERESTED READER"
 Answer: think the women of to- day are far more moral than the women of the past were In spite of all the scandals that flourish on the front pages of the newspapers.
 To each generation its own code of ethics. Our grandmothers, poor dear ladies, did not have much chance to grow the standard virtues because they were the victims of circumstances They had to marry for a living because that was the only way they had of getting one. They had to lie and flatter and cheat to get whatever they did get out of grandpa, who was a tyrannical old soul with a tight string tied around his money purse.
 The long line of women that you see going to work every day. wom- .en who are willing to toll for their own bread and butter, instead of getting it in what Is euphoniously called "thA easiest way'-for priest and bell cannot sanctify an unloVlns marriage-is certificate of the morality of the women. of today strong enough to draw money on at the bank. This is the first genera tion of women in the whole history of the world that has ever known the luxury of being able to tell the truth, and be honest, and that mas not had to barter it's body for food and clothes and position In society.
 As for the modern woman's efh- cfency-Rood heavens, grandmotner would simply have turned up ner toes and died of sheer exhaustion 1T she had done one-tenth of the things that granddaughter accompiishes with one hand tied behind her
 Grandmother thought she had done a days work when she kept house and raised a family.
 Granddaughter does that far more more economically ana eIIlclen'iy so- grandmother did, and goes into SO ciety and runs for office, and belongs to clubs, and reforms the world, anu wrestles with germs besides.
 DOROTHY DIX.
 "Dear Miss Dix-My daughter has been keeping company With Inan for five years. She gave up ali o'ns t,a company for him, and althoush ne never asked her to marry him sne supposed that he would do so at iase Now he has gone away and sotteh engaged to another girl, ana her heart is broken because she Is not so vounr nor so pretty as she was anu she may not get another beau. 1l,,,, " na' :. can she doI
 NothinR but grin and bear 1t, as neonle must stand loss when they are foolish enough to make pao par gains.
 If ,s A mystery past solving why any girl above the grade of an loiot xvould have part in such an unequ" ~ affair as what Is called keepin B E. company" with a man who may It may not Intend to marry ne If gives him all the ,.,sa advahssse'' va nsr
 He monopolizes her youth anu anu trasbness He drives off all tne other mon. He keeps away eiig;hle suitors in what Is her mary. ing time, because if girl ooes not marry when she is young she
 apt to marry at alI. ,ha+ doe, the
 Ana for all of this what ooes taw .an give? He takes her to a tSm nIaces of amusement. He spenps t n,co of few movie and theali tickets on her. He takes ner o ,s hau ar two. And that's all. @ not engaged to her. lie IS not % can o .o har in any way. Any day ne H 10 nei vay and marry somebody else' rlus s tha moor girl is left lame tliis' anu has been cut out of hei clrote, isoiated. She has no beau eo taTe the place of the recr.ah. one' he and she's not likely to iinu eng of n a anu shs Is in the attitude or cause ,r, and men are 80 much ike llleo Sshat they don't want the sirl sneep .or,a other man has turheu down.
 rbr.. months is long enough TOT any man to take to make up ancs mind about ut n,. .iri' i'ntentions. anT oS If he basn't done 1t by that time she sh0uru i', .asts,,,lv hut firmly, maneuVer nm o,t tha front door. The wise maiuen never lets any one man camp on hss narlor chairs regularly untll ne n n~:, named the day. Neepinis .nd they Id a bad business for glrls' anu should refuse to do 1t; ,,v p1x
 "Dear Miss Dix-I have nad soni9 exnerience in husband-tamlns, anu e1peit nv recipe for the benefit or pptha. women who may be wrestling ,,,itb the 'knocker' type or man. | ''sad n weep at my husbands crltl- ois,,s and the more I cried she more fault he found and the ahsfiei ' got.
 "Nov I don't cry; I laugh. | pre-, tend to take nothing seriously ais is to think that everything ne says is ao screaming joke. Sarcastic remarks roil q IT. off me as water off ducks HOW TO GIVE YOURSELF
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