A= \'| | HOW CAN I ACQUIRE CHARM? & to the World "Iry Being Sweet to Your Father," Says the Famous Author of an Interesting Article By Beatrice Fairfax, 1 Who occupies a unique position in the writing world as an author. ity on problems of love.. CHARM school is the latest : A plan for acquiring the elusive quality every girl would like to possess--the en- ehantment called charm. It will be interesting to watch the prog: ress of this ultra-modern idea. Meantime for the many thous- ands of girls who will find it im- possible to take systematic courses in charm, there are sug- gestions being made on every side for attaining irresistible fu»- cination. On the other hand, some pess!- mistic individuals declare there's no way of achieving charm. They claim you're born charming or you're born without charm--and that's that. But most of us can recall in- stances of women who as very young girls were wtterly unat- tractive, yet who are charming at thirty and forty. And this proves a woman can acquire charm. What has been done can be done again. We all may, if we're willing to make the effort, attain, to at least some degree, charm of beauty, charm of health, charm pf breeding, charm of chie, of 'daintiness, of grace, and, above all, that compelling fascination, charm of spirit. I know well a girl whose charm is superlative. And she achieved it by means of what you might call a simple recipe, easily tried out in one's own home. Mollie's her name. Mollie was easily the most popular girl I saw at the dance the other night. She wasn't the best dancer, al- though she dances well. She wasn't the most beautiful girl, al- though Mollie has a straight, healthy, young body and the delicate glow of her "school- girl" complexion is all her own. Mollie knows what colors become her. She looked her loveliest the other evening in a white silk deep-fringed dance frock that set off the blue, pink and gold of her coloring. I, who have known Mollie many years, have a fair idea of how, all unknown to she sc the faculty of naturally pl 'people and her Self to the person she's with. Mollie practiced her art of charm on her father--not pur- posely, of course. But since she was knee high, Mollie has been a "him Xt has dad's. 8 a little girl she discovered that when he came home tired from tie office he liked nothing better than to throw himself on the sofa and rest by listening to a few of his favorite phonograph found "which were his reco could discuss ft wrth th t Sxparisnced fan. Often she want Saturday afternoon. ya Her father liked to had a good, tho away," Being sweet to him in every thoughtful way was a pat- ural expression of her affection and appreciation. ' So "Molly, without deliberately intending to do so, acquired the art of charming men. Little wonder that without con- sclous effort she fascinates both women and men. thorough course in charm. Inct- dentally, it's little wonder Mollie's engaged to a lucky young man, Girls often write me about mfs- understanding and lack of sym- pathy at home. Doubtless many fathers as well as mothers are hard and severe and refuse girls the galety and open-hearted hos- pitality they should feel free to indulge in at home. But, en the other hand, I wonder whether much might not be ac- complished to better conditions by the girls themselves, Do you go out of your way to make a friend and pal of your father? If you don't you're missing one of the jolliest, most worth-while friendships of life. And your father's companion- ship will prove a liberal edu- cation for you in learning what every popular and charming girl needs to know: the masculine level-headed point of view as a balance to her own ultra-feminine way of looking at life. I can't think of a more potent course in charm than might be summed up in five short words: Be sweet to your dad. YOURCHILD AS AN ARTIST By Wm. A. McKeever. Lecturer and Writer on the Bringing Up of Children. FOUR-YEAR-OLD ran to A his mother, and holding up 8 drawing of his own that might have passed for a map of Texas, exclaimed, "Ses, Mama, here is a picture of Daddy." Thus the true artist aroused begins, by expression in a blundering way what is in the mind and aroused by the emotions. The more per- fect pattern will come slowly and naturally trial ang cor Rectin as driven and directed A few years later you will per haps find this same boy, now in a drawing class at school, and striving under outside pressure to make a perfect copy of a perfect to be got and a school grade to be passed. The foregoing is meant in no sense as a reflection on our school teachers, but rather on the false methods of our whole society. Children are suffering from our ready - made, hurry-to-market models. The vast concern of in- dividual production is giving way to machine ' patterns and me- chanical models, and the children are" Let us give the little ones time to grow from within and to man- Heat thereby their divine crea: She's taken a | BEATRICE FAIRFAX DRAWN BY NELL BRINKLEY The Modern Girl S0!"--in vari-colored tones of voice: delicately inquiring from the high-bred, and still gentle, girl; highly cynical from the widely read professional; prettily pugnacious from the "business girl"; amusedly jaunty from the young athlete; honestly indignant from young ladyhood in general, and--the unexpected--the most scornfully slangy from the ome highest up im the social ladder-- » the debutante! . Says she, to that busy reporter, with his columns of criticisms, that laid end to end would wrap the world up like a package for the parcel-post; says she: "How comes it that you expect us to be so far behind the rest of the world! Everybody else is walking right along. No man or boy, or old gentleman or lady, is back in another age.. But you expect girls alone to be living and thinking, and eating, and wearing clothes, and aking ck with Governor Winthrop or Evangeline! "Elderly" ladies are riding in taxi-cabs--~NOT Slow coaches with rocking Springs and four horses. THEY go to latest plays and discuss com 8nd physiology and governments ssid arly Ameri T burden of her answering song is something like--"Is that FASHION FADS FOXY GRANDPA'S STORIES Registered U, 8. Polent Office, = ---- tf hr Prev y can furniture--and LOVE---they are in the fromt line--marching under today's slogan. They are not the same as the elderly ladies of 1812. They are pot naughtier--they are just different. "Old gentlemen do not stay put in one place. They begin to see the world now at eighty. They drive their own cars and they dance at the roof-gardens when YOU call that keeping up with the * folks'--it isn't. It's keeping up with time. v "Even Jou Joarasi, 70 er, you are whirling right along. ou are no a and sword. 'Hi * GIRLS alone to be?" NUE Jou expos; And then she gives him a parting little dig. "Anyway how could you expect us to every doing, every thought, every troubl in silver shoe-buckie homaspun, N'T THAT 8O!* "-NELL BRINKLEY. AND FANCIES 'By Mildred "Ash C on CoCOR= the young woman who de- sires a silk Spring coat, and yet prefers something more youthful and sprightly than black, makes a wise choice, Sat- in, satin back crepe, and benga- Hne are the favored fabrics for dressy Spring wraps; these are generally bordered around the bottom with long-haired fur. The Rage for Red--seems un- abated, if one is to judge by the number of all-red hats, separate frock and ensemble costumes of brilliant red now being displayed by the most authentic fashion houses. "Lacquer" and "lip-stick" are the most generally popular shades and are frequently used , in combination with black. in combination with blac. Two-in-One--is the term most applicable to the latest "cricket" skirt for athletic wear. This prac- tical garment has breeches (Just to the knee) and skirt cut in one, and is truest to its English type when developed in tweed. uaint and Old-Time the frocks that are om tirely of glazed chints. Fory used merely as a trimming, it has very recently heen used as 8 dress fabric, or for a costume slip to be worn under black lace, Used that way, it gives the ef: fect of exquisite brocade, Bobby as we stood by his beehive, "have you noticed that all of these bees are not alike?" "I have indeed," I answered. "There are three kinds of bees in every hive." "Three kinds," exclaimed Bobby. "Yes, Bobby," I answered "Do you see those fat bees, whose bodies are stouter than the others and rounded instead of pointed? And do you see that their eves are almost as as the rest of their heads?" "Like that one there?" asked i § WHAT A LITTLE QUEEN EATS. "Fo GRANDPA," sald 4 there are from ten to twenty 8 in CORRECT MANNERS By Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman Theatr e MRS. BI AN: Please tell me the correct way to enter and leave a thea- tre with a young lady. 3--If you get home late from the theatre and the young lady asks you to come into the house should you go? -- . ~-- 0 ~ oy 27/0 A XL. -- to follow the usher down the aisle of the theatre, and it 4s cor- thousand bees in a hive you may imagine busy." "I should say so," said Bobby, shaking his head and never tak- ing his eyes off the hive, "Who lays the eggs?!" asked Bobby. ° "Now you're talking," I de- clared. "Now we come to the busiest bee in the whole little city--the queen bee. There she is! Do you see the great respect which is paid her? Do you see how there are always some bees surrounding her and keeping a space open for her to walk in?" "And do you see how the other bees never turn their backs on their queen? They defer to her like courtiers to a real queen. If you ever go to court, Bobby, that's the way you have to act with royalty--you never turn they are kept very its fil § is .} SECRETS OF HEALTH AND SUCCESS By Charles A. L. Reed, . - Former President of the Amerk can Medical Association. Child Lite. 8 your child now between six and fourteen years of age? It 0, itis the period of that child's greatest mental growth. It is likewise the period of your greatest opportunity as s parent. That is because it is the period in which the budding intelligence is beginning to get a clearer vision of the actual universe and to imagine still other universes. It bas been called the period of the imagination. It is the direction given to the imagination of childhood that goes far either to make or break the expanding life. One of the most effective means by which the childish imagination can be given good and wholesome direction is through gratification of the always exist- | ing dramatic instinct of child: hood, This is one of the fundamental principles of Community Service, which in turn is one of the most wholesome of organized agencies in the interest of child life in 'America. One of the means by which Community Service carries out this priciple for your child and the thousands of other children, is to get them interested in well selected plays that will give them fun--good, wholesome o This is dope for an even broader object, which is to de- velop imagination in the com- ~ unity----imabination in those who are participating and those who are spectators. tion more vitally in the lives of the people. It is believed possible by this means to make people more gen- erous, more understanding, of the lives of other people. Also to make progress mare rapid by securing a greater open- mindedness. The promoters of this move- ment call attention to the fact that it is not what one knows passively that counts, but what one has felt, has experiemced, They also place emphasis on the importance of the pageant as an occasional and temporary form of dramatic art. The special in- terest of Community Service fis not in pageants, but fn the use of the dramatic effort costinu- ously throughout the year by various groups--ch lodge, club, school, neighborhood, com. munity center. Community Service deserves Your support and the suppert of everybody. Copyrigh(, 1535, ty King Pestures Gyndioste, 1n¢ VICE TO LOVELORN =By : Beatrice Pinning Faith to One Man. EAR MISS FAIRFAX: have been going i hii 1 Es¥ gagy : fig § § i ; g + k i | ! » - : ; if § i