The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-23
rs THIS POSSIBLE1
Arc the Advanced wonen Agitated Merely
Because They Are Not Beautiful

Arc the Advanced Women xitated Merely
Because They Are Not BeauufuIs
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Six wood
cuts Of advanced women recently published by
a newspaper are calculated 10 suggest TO the be-
holder several thoughts of a painful nature.
Making all allowance for the well-known short
comings OF the Notwithstanding. indeed,
more finished portraits-these she-males are
homelier than inartistic sin or unleavened vir-
tue. Flashing a dark1antern into the caves
and subterranean passages of memory, where
such objects are packed away-especially
% nights after a late dinner-not one
face favored by heaven out Of the whole pack OF
advanced women smiles into view. Some there
are that in youth may have been prepo ,sessIng,
but there is no record that at that remote period
they were advanced. OF the younger recruits
there is not one that a man would turn his neck
to look at-not one! not one! And VIC all know
that there are men that will walk backward to
stare at any woman decently good looking.
Now the question naturally arises, Would
these same women be advanced IL they were
possessed OF that divine prerogative OF their
sex-beauty? II they were even round and rosy
and pretty? 1t is all very well to talk about the
commanding strength OF heredity and curtailed
power OF the environment, but Just transform
an ugly woman into a pretty one and she will
leap from pessimism to optimism like a torrent
VI "otci bhai haS DSth uhnhtuThuy uAmIneu
For men make this world a very pleasant
place for pretty women. even for those who. do
not take undue liberties with the Decalogue.
Most women with beauty marry young. and are
quite content IN let some one else fight the battle
of life for them. IL they make a mistake they
quietly divorce the deficient party IN the con-
lract,and. with ripened judgment. marry again.
Those who don't marry. and are forced TO earn
their own living, find the way much easier II
they please the eye of man, and naturally they
take an optimistic view Of life. / am not
prepared TO deny that they meet many
bold, bad men in the financial arena.
but a k~een-witted girl can manage amy
man, and such trials are not TO be mentioned ia
the same hour with the dreary, hopeless, mud
footed, backbone-wilted tramp OF the homeIy
woman. The latter will get there" Of course,
II she has brains and PersisSence: but no success
retrospect. No wonder she curses unsympa-
thetlc man, even from the platform ana in the
Ing the whole scheme OF creation.
Many OF the prominent advanced have had .
as surely Is their view point stunted and warped
they are plain, and man has not made their des-
wrong TO them, and they would make il right
by shouting denunclatiOn OF man as he Is spoke,
not rejecting that shouting ruins the infections
OF the voice, and distempered thoughts turn
the complexion green and life blue.
The odd part OF IL IS that these women when
prof. herd a3ss Seaatifui. Be%itesiaaGs fIL
seductively, stOrmily, regally or circeanly beau
titul are these young women OF paper who
would resolve man into his elements and re-
make him after a PATTERN which would imme-
diatelY bring the human race to an end. These
writers paint women that physically represent
all they themselves yearn To Dc, never rejecting
that those pretty heads would not hRrbOr their
own distorted and indigo views OF life hye min
utes. In the ha9ds Of o man author those same
heroines would make the pages hum.
But these wood cuts suggest another alarming
Is beauty on the decline For the
ranks of the advanced are now many and many
thousands strong. The suffrage movement, the
temperance movement, the anti-manm movement,
the anti-in-general movement, all OF which may
be grouped under tue general head OF woman
ism, are filling space like a mighty flock OF
crows, and hiding the light OF the stars. OF
course their children-if they condescend 10
have any-wtl be hideOus, and the ultimate
prospect Is awful. For nothing that the human
brain can evolve can ever take the place Of
beauty, whether II be beauty OF face, OF art,
or OF a mountain under a purple mist. And
as these women are as absolutely without the
sense OF beauty as they are without proportion
and humoT, the natural result will be. IL they
multiply and Oyerrun the earth, that beauty
and the perception Of IL will disappear. II Ma
ture manages 20 survive she will be pArtitiOned
on into the tract arabic and the tract unArable.
and can change her foliage 70 cinnamon pink IL
she lists; while As for art u will disappear alto
gether. The only hope this planet has Is that
man will respectfully but firmly decline to