The Archive · 1929

Leaving Home for Freedom

I often find myself embroiled in more or less futile arguments because I contend that she whom we all the Modern Girl lacks the cour age of her grandmother, writes Mabel Elams Hope in a Home paper. upon me which has satiated me, and which, anyone can have in exchange for providing me with an absolutely Victorian Christmast This may} sound somewhat wild, but it is a fair summary of my attitude.

Superficially it would seem that whatever may be the faults of the Modern Girl, with her "advanced" outlook, hor precious "freedom," hor charming scanty, unhampering clothes, lack of courage to face the world {s not one of them. In fact, courage is an attribute which appears to possess to a degree bordering on foolhardiness at times.

But there ave all kinds of courage; and the kind that the average girl lacks is that which enabled her grandmother to face life without s0 judi compromise as we indulge in

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