The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-07-30
WHAT BEAUTY WILL DO.
Men Have Made Women Set Great store
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To put it shortly, if with somewhat
brutal frankness. the majority of wom-
en- have hitherto wished to get married,
and, being in action, though nc. in ar
gument, supremely logical creatures,
they discovered centuries since that the
quickest and most certain way of at
tanning this end was to make them
selves attractive to men, says the Fort
nightly Review. The most powerful
form of this attractiyeness has been
is and always will be, their personal
beauty, and to enhance that beauty by
every means in her power and 10 AFFORD
as frequent and striking occasions for
its display as possible have been the
aims of every civilized society in so
far as women have been able to deter
mine them. And there is not the faint
est reason to believe, cranks male and
female Notwithstanding, that these
aims have become one whit less univer"
sal, less potent or less eagerly desired.
The assumption that it is possible
for women to enter into the fierce COM
y =
attractiveness, appears to me to be
wholly contrary to all our previous eX-
perience. 1t is incredible that the
same feeling should obtain between a
man and woman who are striving
against one another, as between the
man and woman to whom the one is
content to give and the other to accept
the means of livelihood. 1t is equally
incredible that those who are engaged
in the actual contests of professional
business should not lose some of the
delicacy, the sOftness and the sexual at
Effectiveness which are the product of
leisured. shielded lives, and a code of
ethics which requires a higher standard
of higher morality and conduct than is
possible in trade.
If women are willing to pay this price
they at least show no sign of such readi-
ness, and this can be proved not only
from the consideration of their fashions
in dress and analogous matters-it is
even more clearly revealed in the educa-
ton which is still assigned to girls, the
subjects taught thereinand the methods
oflife and study. But slight examination
is needed to show that here. too, all is
founded upon that same aim of render
ing the girl socially attractive and eff
fective, rather than of rendering her
competent for the discharge of any spe-
cial duty or making her capable and
thoroughly proficient in any branch of
learning or fit for any profession.
Fiendis! Collar Buttons.
I'm thinking of giving up tailor
made frocks," she said. Il Just tell
you what it is" she went on confiden-
TALLY, mo woman can be what she
ought to be ana lead the higher life if
she has TO wrestle with collar button
I've tried it and | know. Every time
| put on collar set so mad"
You don't swcar?" said her auditor.
"No. | don't" she answered At
least-yOu know-not out loud. but l
am firmly convinced that collar but
tons should be the exclusive property
of the sex who can use big, big D.
and say it hard. too. Anyway. Of all
the double-faced hypOcrites in the
world. commend me to a tailor-nt.;de
frock. 1t is the very Ananias and Sap
phira of clothes. Looks so simple auI
inexpensive, doesn't Il? No gcwFaws
or trimmings. Bat YOU got 10 go 10 a
man tailor to have a coat properly
built and he would Perish before your
eyes at the thought OF anything but a
silk lining, and you know what bric-a-
brac like that costs?
Then it looks like you could sin it
on in Il jiffy. and you wait the last min
ute before dressing. You get cut the
collar and start 10 button it. One end
goes on and the other one won't. You
get red in the face. and you stop and
dab some powder on your nose You
start again. The button still refuses
to fasten You wonder that YOU never
noticed that you looked Ills = v.gsher-
woman before. More powder. You
have rumplcj yOu:' collar so it is unfit
for use; so You take another ard make
a fresh start Same hitch. You stamp
your foot and wish you were a maM for
about two minutes. The perspiration
breaks out over your face. and IL your
frantic efforts 10 faStCn tho button Won
perceive that all tie curi has come cut
of your bangs am your lck hair is
coming down. E2C-. ills time the
button slips out OF yo.a -e-yous fingers
and rolls away intC uaiI own parts.
It takes fifteen minutes by the ciocl, to