The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-03
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Are the Advanced Women Agitated Nero
~ Because They Are Not BeautIfuls


six wood cuts of advanced women
recently published by a newspaper are
calculated to suggest to the beholdel
several thouzhts of a painful nature
Making all allowance for the well
known shortcomings Of the -voodcuttel
recalling indeed more finished por-
traits=these she-ma1es are homeliel
than inartistic sin or unleavened virtue.
Flashing a dark lantern into the caves
and subterranean passages of memory,
where such objects are packed away
especially O. nights after a late dinner
not one face favored By heaven ont
of the whole mack of advanced women
smiles into view. Some there are that
in youth may have been prepossessing,
but there is no record that at that re-
mote period they were advanced OF
the younger recruits there is not one
that a man would turn his neck to look
at-n0t one, rot one And we all know
that there are men that viii walk back
ward to stare at any woman decently
good looking
Now, the question naturally arises,
Would these same women be advanced
if they were possessed Of that divine
prerogative OF their se-7-beauty? 1t
they We're even round and rosy and pref
ty? 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 pes
simism to optimism like a torrent OF
water that has been unnaturally dam
med.
For men make this world very
pleasant place for pretty women even
for those who do not take undue hber
ties with the decalOgue- Most women
with beauty marry young and are quite
content to let some one else fight the
battle of life for them. lie they make
mistake, they quietly divorce the def
cient party in the contract, and, with
ripened judgment, marry again Those
who dOn't marry and are forced to earn
their own living find the way much
easier if 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 inan-
cial arena, but keen witted girl can
manage any man, and such trials are
not to be mentioned in the same hour
with the dreary, hopeless mud footed
backbone wilted tramp Of the honely
woman The latter viii get there y
Of course, if she has brains and persist
ence, but no success can compensate for
that bleak ard Notifying retrospect. No
wonder she curses unsympathetic man
even from the platform and in the po-
lemical novel She would be justified
in cursing the whole scheme Of creation
Many of the prominent advanced have
had a decent enough time Of it fnan-
cially But Just as surely as their view
point is stunted and warped they are
4 Al
blossom like the rose. The world is all
wrong to them, and they would make
it right by shouting denunciation 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 it is that these wom-
en- when they write their novels invaria-
bly, make their propagandist heroines
beautiful Bewitchingly, seductively,
stormally, regally or circeanly beautiful
are these young women Of paper who
would resolve man into his elements
and remaze him after a pattern which
would Immediately bring the human
race to an end These writer's paint
women that physically represent all
they themselves yearn to be, never re-
fecting that those pretty heads would
digO views of life five minutes. In the
hands of a man author those same hero
ines would make the pages hum
But these wood cuts suggest another
alarming question. Is beauty ON the de-
cline? For the ranks of the advanced are
now many and many thousands strong.
The suffrage movement, the temperance
movement, the antiman movement, the
anti-in- general movement. all Of which
may be grouped under the general
head Of w0maniaTn, are filing space like
a mighty flock Of crows and hiding the
light of the stars. OF course their chill
dren-if they condescend to have any
will be hideous, and the ultimate pros
pect is awful, for nothing that the hu-
man brain can evolve can ever take the
place Of beauty, whether it 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 hu-
NOR the natural result viii be, if they
multiply and overrun the earth. that
beauty and the perception Of it viii dis
appear
If nature manages to survive, she will
be partitioned of into the tract arabic
and the tract unarable and can change
her foliage to cinnamon pink if she
lists, while. as for art, it viii disappear
The only hope this planet
has is that man will respectfully but
firmly decline to marry the advanced !
woman, in which case the evil Will be
confined to the present generation But
there are as many feeble sOuled males
IN this world as there are distempered
females, and the danger lies in their
trembling admiration for and final alb