The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-18
!! HE NV WOMAN IDE |
Fads and FoibIes of the
Fair Sex
NHE other day a newspaper re-
ported the proceedings of a

don that the Selectas prided them
selves on being the most fashionably
gowned club of women in the country
What a mark of superiority, now, to
pride oneself on! To wear the longest,
consequently the uncleanest, dress
skirts, with the tightest waists, and
those most heavily and uncomfortably
ioaded with embroidery, fringe, lace
inset work and outset work, ribbons,
VelVets, buttons big as small saucers
and in no case made to button, awful
looking peg heeled Oxford ties with
bows so big they give the appearance
OF bits of rag around the instep, with
the sky scrapingest hats and the meal
baggiest sleeves in the United States!
Isn't that an item for women supposed
to have brains and immortal souls to
pride themselves on? If a majority of
Women's organizations throughout my
country have come to this then | say
better it were the Woman's club had
never been invented. In those glorious
Greek statues which have stood for
twenty centuries as the model Of all
figure is it the clothes Of the marble
women that we admire most? Will
American women ever, ever learn that
dress is only an adjunct to beauty and
not at all beauty itself? The true
aesthetic principle in dress is that it
shall be secondary to the body which it
covers. When woman is dressed in
such way that her costume attracts
more attention than she herself does
it is an all round admission on her part
that she is nothing in herself, therefore
must resort to costly or bizarre gar
ments to draw notice at all. That is
the impression conveyed by the Selecta
club. They have no intellectual power,
so must dress to get any notice taken
of them. In this matter of beauty it
is the body itself we should spend time
on, to make it comely by physical cul-
ture, and not the garments that robe
it. Add to this accomplishments of in
tellect and soul and you will have my
Lady Beautiful.
Because a thing is so in your neigh
borhoed is no reason why necessarily
it ought to be so all over this universe.
Don't be provincial.
Golf made John d. Rockefeller over
into new man physically, he says. It
is just as good for women as for men.
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In Boston school committee report
on coeducation find this: THE only
advantage in having the sexes sepa-
rated may be to give inferior teachers
easy positions in girls schools. 1t is
d fact that certain masters of mixed
schools have separated boys from girls
in order to aid inferior teachers"
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Do you think girls and women ought
to be supported in idleness by men2
Read what Ella Wheeler Wilcox says:
81 grow to believe there is a curse
upon money we have not earned"
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Very bad news from Roumania!
There is likely to be a famine In the
land. Roumanian women have struck.
They refuse to do the nations farm
work any more. Thousands Of acres
lie unplowed, growing up In weeds,
The dispatches say. How sad this is!
Our hearts bleed for the hunger and
want of the poor Roumanian men. It
Is said, though, that few Of them are
coming up bravely to the scratch and
are preparing to till what they must
OF the soil themselves. And the first
result of this is a large order to the
United States for agricultural machin-
cry. Just so. No hand labor for his
majesty Man If he can get out of It..
Well, one doesn't blame him for that.
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Mrs. Snapback was smart widow
with a grown son. The son was six
feet tall and broad and strong in pro-
portion. She herself was of good size
and In good health. She married
poor, meek, weak little husband, not
much more than half the size OF her
son and not so strong as herself. The
poor little husband was expected to
support Mrs. Snapback In comparative
luxury For some reason he failed to
Gil her ideal Of man, so she left him
and sued him for alimony, which she
obtained. He paid it awhile. then fell
Ill Mrs. Snapback sued him for back
pay and demanded also that the regu-
lar amount. 81 week, be increased. She
in court beautifully goWned
md wearing diamonds. She cast her
gorgeous eyes over the pale, little ex-
husband, then over the court room, and
shifted. "0h, my, what smelly place
his isr' she exclaimed. The judge
ooked at her. ahlebedied enough to
take in washing for living If she
needed to. then at the brawny, big son.
his eagle eye finally lowering over the
pale, meek ex-husband. Little hus-
band" said the judge, you may re-
luce your wife's alimony to 81 week
& you want to. z
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