One thing that I found truly interesting was in chapter ten "Dancing Daughters" was dating in the nineteenth century. Dating was a new "fad" for young people at that time. The book stated that they dating consisted of teens going out to dinner and a movie with another teen and then the next night going out with a different person. This is definitely not how the term dating is considered now. Now, during the twentieth century, dating someone means being exclusive to only that person. If a teenager was to be "dating" a few people at a time, it is considered to be trashy and wrong. It also talked about dances, where the boys would take the prettiest girls and you know you picked right if a boy would ask to cut-in while you were dancing. These days, one boy and one girl would go together and most likely only dance with their date. That is, unless a friend cuts-in.
One other thing I found interesting about this similar topic was the fact that it was a "fad." Another fad was once the automobile was invented, teens were all driving cars. This strikes me as interesting because when I was younger we had different fads. Our fads consisted of new hairstyles, new clothing styles, who had a tamogatchi, or a gigapet. Who owned pogs, or collected pokemon cards. No fad like this was mentioned during other adolescent years. Their interest was going to school or finding a job to support their family. Our youth today has become so frivolous.