The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-05
Says Woman Is N a t u a l P ose UT
By CAROLINE. CRAWFORD

es one of the few traits they have
 in common, but it's as natural for a woman to pose as it is for her to powedr her nosei A girl just can't help posing for every employer and severy suitor. She is what the employer and suitor wants her to be every time "
 All this from Dorothy Day, whose first novel, The Eleventh Virgin" has just been published by Albert and Charles Boni. Miss Day, who is just %, is the daughter of John Day, sport ing editor of New York paper, and was brought up in this city in the Greenwich Village section. She has done newspaper work in Chicago, lived in a typically Bohemian atmosphere mostly since she was 1b and started out on her own newspaper career, was one of the militant suffragettes who went on hunger strike in Washington few years ago and knows men from A to izsard, claiming she loves them all.
 In her book she tells the story of q young girl who finds out to just what extent love, conventional and other wise, Is necessary to her experience. And though Miss Day gives very clear picture of the modern girl and free thought she ends her book with rather an old-fashioned conclusion.
 When I first met Miss Day we started to talk about love and the modern girl and the desirability or undesirability of girls having love af- fairs. Miss Day stroked her newly cut hair, which she herself describes as "the way my kid brother of 12 wears bis hair," looked far away out of her keen gray eyes and shrugged her shoulders.
 "It's very dangerous for one girl to advise another in love affairs" she said Every girl must meet this ques- tion herself.".
 And after this remark I knew Miss Days real answer lay in the conclu- sion of her book when she, has June, the heroine, sum up her wild love af- fair much as the old-fashioned girl might have in the secrecy of her own heart. "1 know what want. It's Dick and marriage and babies! And I'll have them yet Wait and see."
 Then 1t was that the interview turned toward posing" and Miss Day ueclared that she believed every girl is something different to every employ CT and every suitor.
 You ask three men who have em-. ployed the same girl to describe her and you will get three different adjec- lives" pointed out Miss Day. '"The first man will say Oh, yes, Miss Brown is delightful little business girl, very shy, but a good worker r The second employer will say: Miss Brown was very aggressive young woman, always took things in her own hands ? And the third employer will say Miss Brown never took a step without asking my advice, and that is why valued her so!
 "To every one of those employers Miss Brown was a different person, and the whole reason of it was because Miss Brown posed as just the type of young woman she knew each employer wanted
 And it's the same way with suit ors," laughed Miss Day. Every girl wants to please the man she loves or : even the man who is coming to call upon her. Ask three men who have called upon Miss Brown or made love to her to describe her and the first s1itor will say. She's the sweetest little girl in the world, wouldn't say an unkind word to anybody But the second suitor is liable to say, Miss Brown? A regular little spitfire! Gee, the things that girl has said to mel While the third suitOr will describe Miss Brown as a bookworm and girl who loves to quote pottery:.
 And is Miss Brown deceitful be- cause she poses for tlSse employers and suitofs? Not at all. Her wOman's intuition merely makes her realize that she wouldn't hold her job five minutes if she didn't pose Jas shy, az gressive or cautious. She has to be all these things to all these employers. "When she is entertaining Jack, Bill or Tom she soon discovers that Jack likes a gentle, sweet-tempered little sweet heart; that Bill likes a spitfire who can flash things back at him. and that Tom likes books and poetry. Presto She finds herself posing to please them all. She can be sweet tempered, though she has to bite her tongue; she can think of funny little flashy things to say or she can read