The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25
SENTIMENT IS SLAIN
CLARICE's CYNICIsM ON THE
RELATIONS OF THE SEXES.
She Says Woman Now Regards Man
As An Industrious Convenience,
Rather Than As a Tender, Pas
sionate Lover, Capable of Daring
For Her.

| winded sort, but men as a sex.
They have evidently lost their TO
mantle attraction. and women regard
the human male as an industrious,
patient, ugly convenience rather than
as the fierce. passionate tender, mys-
FERROUS being that formerly set her
pulses beating as he gazed in her eyes
or issued his commands.
This sounds like a pretty big propo-
! sition, but have not only the facts to
prove it, but L know why the bachelor
| and husband stock is so far below par
today.
1t is your clothes, my dear man-frst,
last and always. Those dreary, detest-
able, long-tailed and no-tailed coats.
| They have killed-not love perhaps
but the glamour of romance that used
to hang like a heavy perfume in folds
of lace stocks or cavalier cloaks and
that dazzled poor weak feminine eyes
when you drew your glittering sword
| or cooked a feather in a hat-band.
| l remember the first time 1 saw the
| Ninety-third Highlanders swing across
Regents park in LindOn. l am
middle-aged and somewhat frumpy
person myself, but there was delici-
Gus thrill along my nerves, a keen little
catch of ecstasy about my heart when
1 saw that brilliantly uniformed reg1-
ment of men, worth the whole trip
! across the ocean.
No doubt they were a Manufactured
lot those British soldiers, if one had
come to inspect them individuality
cross GRAINED, knock-kneed, raw boned
fellows, but when they swung their
gay plaid petticoats along to the tune
J of Charlie Is My Darling" 1 tell you
every man seemed a hero. AS for ev-
cry woman in the crowd, nurse maids,
fine ladies, flower girls-all of US were
ready to give our hearts as well as
hands to those bonny Scotchmen for
the asking.
Nature knows. She doesn't expect
hens to run after sad-feathered cocks
or does to follow bucks who refuse to
wear antlers.
Just think what pass you men nave
reached when a. woman actually has
difficulty in distinguishing her husband
from the walters around a restaurant
table. They all dress precisely alike,
and when Reginald's back is turned 1T
is slow work to pick him out from a
groom or butler.
You men expect a. white shirt front,
shiny boots and a silk hat, the common
property of coachmen and servants, to
do the business. But it does not.
Just listen a minute while reverse
matters
There is your Fanny, that dear, sweet
soul who for a dozen years has scolded,
sympathized and loved you in a per
fectly satisfactory manner. Yesterday
afternoon when she trotted home at
your side from the office, wearing a
neat little tailor gown, sober, sensible
figure you no doubt looked with
possessive approval at her trim waist
and rosy cheeks, patting yourself
clever chap who knew nod to select
a good wife All the same, Fanny
aroused no very exciting sensations.
The feeling was not unlike the gratl1ed
endorsement you bestow upon a pair
of boots that look well and tit easily
at the same time
| But that evening when the very same
coffee-pouring, baby-soothing, practical
Fanny rustled downstairs to accom-
pany you.to the Smith wedding, behold
what a different set of emotions her
fair. white presence aroused. The long,
/ cleaning folds of a. satin frock, the
polish of her graceful shOulders-why,
! the very violets on her bosom and nod
| ding plume in her hair instantly drew
a magic circle of romance about the
! dear girl.
| You stood, as it were, outside once
/ more in the rank and file of her ad-
mirers Again the pretty beads press
ing against the soft flesh of her throat
! filed YOU with the ineffable yearning
CT courtship days.
It was Fanny, and yet not the tailor
made, dressing-goWn, crimping-tongs
Fanny of familiar, everyday inter
course. This tulle-enshrouded creature
is once more a being full of charm and
mystery. Again she inspires pretty
! speeches on your lips, and as you slip
| the wrap over all her shimmering
/ finery you found it irresistible to give
a tender pressure to the satin bodice
underneath.
And moreover, for a week after
Fanny's successful appearance at the
Smiths you caught yourself thinking
of her in all the tiresome routine OF
Office work Not of the useful, work-a-
satin frocked woman who stirred into
active life the lovers ardor that had
lain dormant so long.
Now, what transformed Fanny il
such twinkling? Her clothes, OF
4 course, and, bless your simple heart
Fanny realized it ever bit when she
gave that extra flourish to her draper.
les and clasped the necklace about hel
throat. She gagged your emotions to {
fraction, and knew perfectly well just
how far her frills and feathers would
! stir your sluggish sensations.
If this is true, then, and we womeT
accomplish such laudable ends by sucF
legitimate means, 1 would like to ash
what men do to arouse this same sor
of emotions in the breasts of sweet
hearts and wives?
Why, they put on funeral panta
looms and coats, plaster their hair
shine their shoes and go forth (poor
misguided beings), expecting to con
quer my sex.
But they don't do it any longer. The!
! WOO women and wed women, and VIII
their love and fidelity very often, but
alas! the mans days for fascinating
dazzling, mystifying and captivating
his mate is done for.
Fancy Beau Brummel in a cutaway
or buckingham in a sweater! Pahl
Observe that unfortunate outgrowtl
of nineteenth century civilization, tn
girl bachelor. Fifty years ago she WOult
have worn ringlets to the end of tn
chapter, hoping. in nine cases out O
ten, to secure some sort of a husband
Today she takes up with the women 0
her own class, they unite in an indie
pendent establishment and men as
sex might disappear from the face o
the earth for all they care
1t is a pity. I myself believe mel
per Sc are as nice as they ever were
and are still able to fight and love an,
dare with the heroes of old, but vol
cannot make the majority of womel
realize it. In their secret hearts the,
think those tame, dreary clothes mus
necessarily cover a very tame, drear.
sort of an animal CLARICE.
CHARACTER IN EYEBROWS.
New Method of Selecting a Wifi