The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-05
-In- Mezc York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York.zIn these days of cocktail drinking, and more-or- less sex equality, and social Bo- hemianism in which the various circles overlap like shingles on a roof. manners are almost as change abl eas modes. Go to a party on Park avenue and you'll meet, pos- sibly. a society bootlegger, an aviator, a bullfighter and a newly risen musical comedy star. Go to | a night club, and in the same cor ner with some fashy Broadwayites of dubious antecedents you'll see a deb, a dowager and two million aires.
 These things being true, Miss Alice Leone Moats, pretty and pert little social registerite of 23, de- cided to write a book of modern etiquette. And this she has done, with a deep curtsy to Emily Post, afiip title called "No Nice Girl Swears," and an impressive forc- word by Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue.
 Miss Meats premise is that we no longer behave like convention fettered human beings, and that we might as we'll break down and admit 1t. She says in print that a woman may smoke at any time or in any place; that it is nothing short of excess prudery for a girl who has been out one or two years | to refuse to dine alone in bache- l Tor flat; that debs of IS may and do drink champagne at dinner: that a display of intelligence handicaps a girl; that ''it is abso- lute1y impossible to give success full party, much less successful ball, without serving liquor"
 Modern Proprictics
 The author declares that the most correct lady. now walks in and out of her favorite speakeasy with | the same unconcern she would dis play in going to her hairdresser. AS for the modern house. party,
 it's no place to take an evil mind. If you breakfast in your room, other members of the party may come in, informally attired, and talk to you. Nobody is shocked
 any more," says Miss Meats. "at
 the sight of pyjamaed youths sitting
 on a girls bed, gnawing crusts of toast from her breakfast tray" No nice girl, she reiterates, l oW SoAo AhAShs All OSNAoAOhoA damn" passes unnoticed. She cautions that a reputation for be- ing a ''heavy necker" doesn't add to a girls popularity; also that no girl can hope to get away with the
 You're the first man ever
 kissed" line with seventeen dif- ferent men. Some day her name will be brought up over a bottle I of brandy and her talents dis cussed.
 The book is not just another sassy travesty on the serious tonnes; it is full of definite instruc-
 tion on everything from introduc- | tions to how to announce broken | engagements. Some special atten-
 tion is given divorces and second marriages.
 Convent Educated
 Alice Leone Meats is the daush- ter of Wallace Payne Moats, a | banker who divides his time be-
 tween New York and Mexico City. | She was born in Mexico, educated in convents in Rome and Paris, and in American finishing schools.
 She writes fashion and travel ar-
 ticles, lives in an apartment over looking the East river, and gets
 around a lot with an assorted
 crowd of young socialites. She's afraid lot of people will be
 shocked by her book.
 "But tried to face facts" she explained. "For instance, you
 never saw an etiquette book tell
 ing how a girl should deal with trunks. So l discuss the various types of intoxication - hilarious,
 lachrymose, taciturn, belligerent
 and amorous. And I advise the girl whose escort passes out in a | taxi to get out right there and leave him-fiIst giving the driver an address about ten miles in the opposite direction of his home.'