MODERN GIRLS STILL ROMANTIC

Evening Star, Issue 20361, 18 December 1929, Page 1

MODERN GIRLS STILL ROMANTIC

HAPPINESS EXPERT'S VIEW “ Don’t believe that the modern girl is hard and unsentimental. She is nothing of the sort. In her heart she has all the old romantic dreams.” Sitting in her - jade green room in Bruton street, Mayfair, Mrs A. A. Fulton smiled gently as she spoke (writes an ‘Evening News’ correspondent), and in her grey eyes was the wisdom of knowledge. For the last year, ever since she founded the Life Adjustment Centre, Mrs Fulton has been smoothing out for men and women, the tangled skeins of life and listening to 1 the secret unhappiness of modern London. “Hard!” She laughed again. “ The modern girl is not hard. “ Hearts do not change. Beneath her sophistication she is just the girl that her grandmother was two generations ago. “ But there is one change I have found, talking with the girls of to-day about their troubles.. They are more frank and open. They have lost the old shyness, the old fear. But their dreams are still the same. . . .” Mrs Fulton spoke of the modern man.She told of the men who bring her stories of their love troubles. “ You hear a lot about the golfing husband,” she said. “ But do you hear about the bridge wife? Do you hear about the tennis wife? Yet they are as big a problem, as certain as cause of unhappiness. “ Men have told me that their wives are bridge mad. They think of nothing else, live for nothing else. And what happens? The husbands endure it for a time—and then comes a smash.” But the most tragic cases of all, to Mrs Fulton, are the women who are bored with life. “ Rich women come to me and implore me to find them something to do,” she said. “They tell me that they are bored, bored, bored. They can find nothing to do, and the weariness of their empty lives grows intolerable to them. “ ‘ Help me to fill my life,’ they sav. “They are sick of the conventional things—of the daily existence of Mayfair. “ I talk with them. I seek to understand them, and then I suggest some form of work—work useful to societyin which thev can find an interest. And they find that this is what they wanted.” , ... Men came to her lor advice in business difficulties. Not long ago two partners who had quarrelled came to see her; they went away friends. Mothers take daughters lor good counsel. Husbands and wives go together, and pour out their troubles m that jade green room to the kingly, understanding woman in the lair hair and the wise grey eyes.