The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-02-11
CHAT WITH CLEVER WOMEN.

Ohhl Will Ohb LIZ W WI
Looking at least ten years younger
than her age-whiCh she admits with
out a pang-eyes bright and sparkling,
skin clear, fresh aud pink-tintcd, lips
rcd aud throat as white as the breast
OF II swan; her rather o but per
fectly developed form clad in black
figured silk, with al -colored
iichu caught together close beneath the
chin; slender feet thrust into pointed
toed Shippers Of bronzed leather;
happy, smiling, at peace with MI the
world-this was Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
says the Chicago News. AS she sal
before a coy CRATE fire in her apart
meut at the Grand Pacific hotel the
other afternoon.
With the face aud figure Of a hand
some, ~waTm-bIooded, careless, we'll
bred girl Of 20, she has the trained
intellect and conversational ease OF Il
literary Campaigner of 90.
''Well, what shall we talk abOut?'
inquired Mrs. Wilcox OF a Daily News
reporter vino called upon her yester.
day.
Mans inhumauity toto woman,
was suggested as a favOrite topic with
her.
''Oh, but you mistake the poetcss
laughed sits not mans i~nhumauity TO,
but his expectations from, woman that
agitate me"
why haven't you been writing a
2Ot OF articles tor u syndicate in>which
You said that man WAS n good deal OF
9 nuisance, anyhow, and that woman
could get along Il good deal better
without him.
HOW II WILCOX LOOKS AT MAN.
''Oh, no, not SO bad as that, though
you are getting a little nearer what
did say. Now this is the way | look
at men"-she probably looked at Mr.,
Wilcox that way about the time of an
important crisis in his career, for il
was a look that would make short
work of any mau-"I look at a man
this way: He's good enough for a
lover-and does very well for a .hus-
band, but Tor a friend--ah, there is
where he Is lacking"
But you wouldn't expect a man
who had gone to all the expense OF
being q lover or a husband to be b
friend into The bargain, would you
Now aren't yon ladies just 3 little toe
monopolistic in your notions? Must
you have the cart"
THAT is the point" interrupted the
Doetess 'tbat is what you men want
the earth. Now, when / was q girl
was very fond Of men-I am yet. But
when I was o girl l imagined a maj
was superior TO q woman in every way
/ thought he would make the best
friend in The world. But before long
! began to know them better A mai
is neyer a disinterested person lie
wants something. He may be very
nice and attentive and sweet to you
but iust watch him awhile and you'll
see that be isn't going away empty
handed il he can help 1t. He wants
value received, and if he makes up hi;
mind that he isn't getting il, that's tht
last Won see of him. Where a woma,
ls concerned friendship has no meaning
for him. A wOmau's best friend i
another WOMAN"
How are you going to work IL
disarm Il woman's envy OF an0the
woman? Her malice, her"
~ admit the envy and the malice
100, but they are vices which do no
exist everywhere and are outweighet
msny times by the passions whlci
preyent men and women from becon
ina friends in Lbe ideal sense of III
word.'
Mrs. Wilcox illustrated her theor,
that n mans attentions to
woman meant invariably tha
4.yalue received" was his NO
tive by referring to an anecdote told i
one OF the letters, which r%eprcsentet
,,xaH aIu,iror nHi 81 girl n hi
tor the amount Of the cost OF all tn
suppers he had pad for before SD
1irGw him over, and declared, tha
though the story had been general
d%Iscredited she knew it 10 be absolute
BY true.
"And the whole thing happene
right here in Chicago" she added.
But the poetess could not be induce
10 give the name aud address OF tn
gentleman In order that his photo
graph and pedigree might be procure
for publication The story had bee
told her in strict confidence.
After speaking of the success in
journalistic and literary way beiD
made by her protege, Miss Fanni
Edgar Thomas, whom she o eeJ
with her two years ago from Chicago
Mrs. Wilcox touched upon the subje'
OF dress reform.
ON DRESS REFORM.
THE corset and the.b nstle are ab0G
anations," she declared.
But still, you appear to-to-
sob, yes l still wear them OH u
street and in The hotel. One must
conventional, you know; but at hon
and at NV work / never allow tn
fbinqs near me. What can be MOI
uncomfortable than 10 have q bust
always IN your way when you want t
sit DOWN. Or to be iSced up in a co
set when you want 10 have perfe'
freedom OF mOtionF
ais there any decided ~improVemeg
you could suggest in the tashions io
men?"
Eyes; knee -breeches and silk stocl
ings."
"Honest ?"
got course. Why Dot7'
but think of The spectacle some
90 choicest dudes would make ! Y,
really cant mean it,"
But l do. It's certainly a mo
cleanly manner Of dressing, and eVt
40 much more becoming"
Would you ike TO see your husbar
in knee-breeches Now really 7"
Eyes. ] would"
"But how people would talk"
well he might wear them aruur
nome with me, any way We are gru'
ing entirely too matter-ot-fact in eve
-sv I think We need a little more