WOMEN: Girls Who Bend

Cheerful, middle-aged Antoinette Donnelly, who runs a column of advice* on beauty and behavior in the New York Daily News, last week printed this letter:

“We have a problem in our office, Miss Donnelly. We girls have tried every way to eliminate it. But here it is for you now to help us out on:

“We have one young woman working in our organization who is—well, different —to put it mildly. . . . She wears her dresses extremely short and is continually bending over the files. . . . And that’s when she provokes an embarrassing situation. She rolls her stockings to just above her knees and when she bends over—well, it is too embarrassing for anything for there are men working along with us.

“Being men, they indulge in asides that aren’t very nice. . . . Instead of looking embarrassed when remarks have been made directly to her, she looks very happy about the sensation she’s creating.

“At first we told her about it in a diplomatic way. Then we became downright frank. Result—if anything—her dresses are shorter and she bends with more frequency than ever. So now we’ve given up. We are petitioning you now to write an article on the subject.”

Answered Expert Donnelly, author of such pamphlets as Getting & Keeping Boys Interested: “You’ve done a pretty good article on the subject yourself. . . .”

* Under the name of Doris Blake, she also gives daily advice to the lovelorn.