Evening star., 1923-05-27
Girls and Their Affairs.
Conducted BY Helen H. Fetter
\ HOUSANDS of Washington
girls will be actively engaged
> in taking part in some one of

HoUSANDS of Washington
girls will, be actively engaged
in taking part in some one of
the many programs OF music
to- be offered in Washington this
week-MusTc week. And many others.
who will not play or sing on one Of
these programs, will go as members
ofethe Girl Scout troops to take fiow-
ers for the soldiers graves in Arling-
tton.
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AN intere sting comparison can be
"A made between the careful atten-
ton that many local high school girls
gave to the decorations and serving
local companies last Wednesday after
che annual competitive drill and the
way that the younger girls in the
scout troops will journey early next
Wednesday morning to Arlington, to
men, who fought valiantly and
viCtoriously through many genera
tfons of this country's history tos pre-
serve to us the freedom first won in
1876. =. ,-.,,-a,..-
How those girls of revolutionary
Spanish American war days, would
Aok in amazement at the practical
daughters of the present generation.
Quaker drab of puritanical times,
hoop skirts of 1855 and bustles of
1878 would alike contrast with the
trim khaki of the Girl Scout uni
fopms. Yet the girls inside all those
dinerent costumes are and always
haye been very much alike. They all
did the same duties for their soldier
a fp hAe
in sthe late world war, and probably
until kingdom come the boys and
mon of each succeeding generation
VIII confidently expect and get femi-
SVe gay color to the necessary, drill
ing existence of life in general.
\ MOTHER problem has been set
"A "a =. local high school girls.
titled in about. the same fash
i"n at all the schools. 1t is very
important problem, too. The senior
girls have decided upon their grad
Gation frocks-one of the most i'm
.2ortant decisions in the life of
Nsh sSs s school DOL girl;; At all the schools
unanimously chosen for the actual
graduation exercises. Dainty col
ored frocks of summer materials and
pastel colorings have proved the
most popular choice for the class
1t is very interesting to find that
the graduation gown is no longer an
elaborately trimmed costume OF
heavy satin or silk weighed down
with expensive lace. Instead of the
'nvious and smarting heart -burnings
that were the result not so long ago
when a few elaborate dresses were
faYnted in a class with many others
which stroXe. to be elaborate, but
failed because OF their home made
character. today the girls themselves
are making smart. simple white
dresses. trimmed with girlish frills
and emphasizing their smartness in
thsir simplicity. Moreover, each girl
thinks of her type" and dresses ac-
cordingly.
And the best of all the traits that
the fiapper has displayed is shown
in the fact that she is such a busy
yLtng person about her own affairs
and ideas, whether they be concern
ing dress, school. amusement or some
thing else, that she does not have
time or desire to envy any other
happer. She has learned how to
look her best, and she who feels that
she looks we'll invariably gives 9TH
ers that impression and consequently
receives the consideration she wishes
to secure.