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...last, the deb has come into her own. After decades of neglect she has finally been noticed. Yesterday's "Traveler" devoted paragraphs to her sorry plight, and with an acutely sympathetic pen limns a detailed picture of the tortures and agonies of the social round...
Close on the heels of Grover Whalen's curfew for night-clubs, the parents of New York's younger set have dropped the shoe that will bring Manhattan's deb parties to a three o'clock ending. This change is but a part of the program which irate hostesses will inaugurate next season. One thousand questionnaires carefully distributed among the Four Hundred revealed that the young people are all in favor of reform...
...invited to an 8 o'clock dinner and sometimes it's 10 o'clock before you sit down. Then there is a pause before you go to dance. It's why the young business men don't come to deb parties. They want to and we want them, but they can't come because they have to get up for work the next...
Though I've been to fifty deb balls where the morning glories grow...
...eard the deb a-callin', you won't never 'edd naught else...