The herald., 1894-11-08
Is YhlS POSsIBLE7
Are the Advanced Women AGitated Mere
ly Because They Are Not BeautifGl?

recently published by e newspaper are
calculated to suggest to the bellolder
several thoughts Of q painful nature.
Making all allowance for tho we'll
known shortcomings Of the woodcutter
recalling indeed moro finished por-
traits-theso she-males are homelier
than 1nartistic sin or unleavened virtue
Flashing dark lantern into the caves
and subterranean passages Of memory,
where such objects arc packed away
especially O nights after 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 prepossessing,
but there is no record that at that re-
mote period they were advanced. OF
the younger recruits there is not one
that man would turn his neck to look
at--not one, not one And we all know
that there are men that will 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 chat divine
prerogative Of their sex-beauty? II
they were even round and rosy and pret-
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 q
pretty one, and she viii leap from pes.
simism to optimism like q torrent Of
water that has been unnaturally dam.
med.
For men make this world a very
pleasant place for pretty women even
for those who do not take undue iber-
ties with She decalogue- Most women
with beauty marry young and are quite
content to let some one else fight the
battle Of life for them. If they make a
mistake they quietly divorce the def
cient party i'll the contract. and, with
ripened judgment, nary again. Those
who don't marry and are forced to earn
their own living fHd tho way much
easier if they please the eye of man, and
naturally they take an optimistic view
of life
I am nos prepared to deny chat they
meet many bold, bad men in the fnan-
cial arena, but a keen witted girl can
manage any man, and such trials are
not to be mentioned il. the same hour
with the dreary, hopeless, mud footed,
backbone wilted tramp of the homely
woman. The latter will ''get there,
of course, If she has brains and persist
ence, but no success can compensate for
that bleak and mortifying 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 decent enough time Of IL finan-
cially. But just as surely as their view
point is stunted and warped they arc
plain, and man has not made their desert
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, soductivel-,
stormally, regally or circeanly beauti1u
are these young women Of paper who
would resolve man into his elements
and remake him after pattern which
would Immediately bring the human
race to an end. These writers paint
women that physically represent all
they themselves yearn to be. never re-
fiecting that those pretty heads would
not harbor their own distorted and in
digo views of life five minutes. In the
hands of 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 genera
head of womanism, are filling 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 tht
place of beauty. whether it be beauty o.
face, of art or Of mountain under {
purple mist. And us these women are a.
absolutely without the sense of beauty
as they arc without proportion and hu
NOR the natural result will be, if they
multiply and overrun the earth, tina
beauty and the perception of it will dis
appear.
If nature manages to survive, she vii
be partitioned off into the tract arabl
and the tract unarable and can chang
her foliage to cinnamon pink if sh'
lists, while. as for art, it will disappea
altogether. The only hope this plane
has is that man will respectfully bu
firmly decline to merry the advanced
woman, in which case the evil will b
confined 20 the present generation. Bu
there are as many feeble souled male
i'll this world as there are distempere'
females, ard the danger lies in thss
trembling admiration for and final ab
sorption by the amazons of this i'm
memorial quarter. i'll which case let u
all thank our several fates that althougl
we may be in at the death we will b
spared the contemplation of misbegot
ten posterity. -tierIrude Atherton i
New York Sun.
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