Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

himself and ask her to marry him when he
came back from France. That seems rather
risk for him to have taken, for he was gone
long time
LIE crowded great deal into those vivid and
i terrible months on the western front. He
fought at st. Mihiel, in the Aisne-Marne and
Meuse-Argonne offensives, and steadily climbed
in rank to a lieutenant colonelcy. He earned
citation for "gallantry in action" and he was
given the Distinguished Service Medal.
After the armiStice was signed, because OF his
knowledge Of international law and his natural
gallantry, he sent to the Grand Duchy OF
Luxembourg to settle amicably those little irri-
tations which the little neutral duchy, hemmed
in between France and Germany, had suffered
at the hands of the American Expeditionary
Forces. The gay and dashing young American
officer taught the Luxembourg Premier all the
American slang he had mastered as cowpuncher
he danced, dined and rode with the grand
duchess and settled Americas debts to Luxem-
burg to the gracious expressions Of satisfaction
of his hosts
But fame on the battlefield and romantic as
ISOLATION with a grand duchess did not make
Pat Hurley forget something he had in the back
of his mind all the while-the memory Of tall,
slender blond girl at home. When he came
back he made his first engagement he had ever
made to call on the admral's daughter and he
proposed to her that very first night.
Naturally, she was aStounded. Nothing like
that had happened to her before man to
propose the first time he called. She didn't
know him very well and she hadn't seen him
nor heard from him in nearly two years.
The Hurley home represents one OF the finest
types of American homes-two fine young per-
sons with high and fine ideals, the wife born to
high place, the husband attaining 1t by sheer
ability surrounded by a happy family OF husky,
vigorous youngsters-Patricia, Ruth and Wilson,
Nor is this charming young matron worrying
her head about the behavior Of the younger
generation, to which she almost belongs her
self. She thinks that at heart they are all
right; that they probably have the same or, at
any rate just as fine ideals and conceptions Of
the place they are to assume in life as any OF
the preceding generations has had.
UDURLNG the last year have not seen as
much of the younger set or the people Of
my own age as used TO-" she said. because,
naturally, my husbands associates are older.
But I am a great admirer Of the younger gen.
Grafton. love their frankness, their freedom
and their self-reliance. 1t seems TO me that
they are very intelligent I am rather under
the impression that, in spite of their seeming
worldly WiseneSs, they are as sound and sensible
IN their ideas as the girls Of my generation
were shouldn't be surprised If they are bet
ter able to take care of themselves. hear my
friends laughingly say that these young people
are informed and intelligent upon subjects upon
which they in their youth were merely dumb
Nor do admit that the younger generation
is bad hammered. I have heard 1t said that
with the more feminine styles in clothes which
have recently come into yogue-the long skirts.
the puff sleeves. the laces and the bows-these
girls are becoming more demure In their man.
ners Perhaps that is one explanation-that 1t
is now fashionable and new to be demure and
we'll behaved. But whatever small and more or
less unimportant changes may take place in the
outward behavior of the younger generation,
they are all right at heart
AT various times have had groups of Wash
ineton debutantes to assist me when entertain
ing They are r2sced and at ease, and they