The Washington times., 1927-12-17
Girls Of Today
Still Hold Their
Standards High
BY Beatrice Fairfax

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StWE are jazz.mad thrill.seek.
" ers." declares Leola Garvin,
SO-year.old exponent of modern
youth, in the December Smart
Set. 1--WE have lost our faith in
other people and in ourselves.
Yes, we are bad, bad. bad"
'Our modern youth should not
be condemned" maintains 15-year-
old Uldine Utley. Theirs is the
golden season Of life. In. their
care.free way, they go recklessly
on. singing gaily. Lively, glowing
youth! Should all this fresh, en-.
thusiasm be suppressed"
Grace Holden Curtis, Iowa col
1ege girl, writes: II think the
scandalshouters are a. bunch of
numskIllls, that pick on modern
youth just for the sake of ex-
ercising their lungs and pens. In
spite of the accusations Of the
older generation, youth is honest
and loyal to its best nature"
At least 1t must be admitted,
Judging by these clippings from
recent periodicals. and newspapers,
that modern girls are thinking for
themselves and trying to under
stand themselves.
This conclusion is strengthened
by the following letter. which is
not by any means typical of the
letters ! receive, but represents q
/. very small, very lively minority:
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
81 may sound hard, but I'm
Just 1927 girl.
SHOW me a girl who doesn't
neck these days. Probably not
one out Of a hundred! The ones
who pretend they don't are just
the hottest ones. And the girl
who doesn't neck will start
pretty quick when she gets out
with the right man.
For what is so nice as a good
necking party on a moonlight
night with a man one is at
tracted to!
you say that men don't re-
spect girls who permit familiari-
ties. That's a line of hooey.
A man sometimes gets to love
the girl of his life through few
kisses. AS for young men not
respecting the 1927 girl, please
ask my boy friend! No young
girl these days can have a good
time without little spice thrown
In.
please don't think I'm one
Of those clinging vines. They
usually are the quiet ones and
I'm a. cave woman. But ! sure,
do like my petting. And also.
I'm not one of those girls who go
out riding and do nothing but
neck. ULTRA-MODERN.
Here is q letter from girl who
considers herself "ultra-modern."
She boasts of her necking; claims
she believes in permitting famili-
arities; is proud because she does
not stop with necking.
Without doubt, Hannah is mod
ern in one respect; she is frank
and direct, or at least she thinks
she is, and means to be.
But are you honest with your
self "Ultra-Modern?" Is not your
letter defiant apology? 1t would
not require Freud to read be.
tween the lines that you are not
pleased with yourself. Perhaps
you feel, however, vaguely, that
YOU have lost something Of peace
and seif-respect which other 1927
girls prize so highly.
The kind of necking and "cave.
woman" loving to which you re-
fer, Hannah, is not ultra.modern.
1t was old-fashioned in the days
of Egypt and Babylon. Vice is
not new.
1t is a sad thing for a girl to
lose the freshness and sweetness
of her youth by making herself
common and cheap, contenting
herself with attentions which are
not a compliment to her and do
not lead to successful marriage.
What you have lost, can be re-
gained. Why do you not begin
today, to win back real pride in
yourself?
know countless popular,
charming modern girls who are
moral in the accepted sense. The
average modern girl works too
hard at her studies, her office or
studio, to care for wild parties.
Loose morals are not common
among women of today. Ideals
still stand.
My acquaintance is, I believe.
representative. Where / know
one girl who considers herself
nltra-modern because she goes