The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-19

Mrs. George Gould is described as wearing on some occasion a gown of black jetted net made with high gir- dle and suspender strips and a Chica- go writer comments as follows on the subject: Man will be interested only in a passing way in the high girdie. His mind will be concentrated, however, on the suspenders, for these will serve to | remind him that woman has left him little or nothing to wear that he can | now claim exclusively as his own. Long ago she reached for his thick soled. high-heeied shoes, and although she has flung them aside temporarily, she is likely to pick them up again at any minute. Then she bifurcated her skirts. Then she took up his waist coat. Then she put on his shirt Then | she appropriated his standing collar Finally, having donned his derby hat, she sauntered forth after new adven- lures. And now, Judging from her in- i terest in Mrs. Gould's experiment, she Is going to put on his suspenders.
 1 Not by confiscating his clothes alone has woman in these latter days exhib- ited a disposition to rob man of his birthright. They tell us that in som parts of the country she is using his | slang and smoking his cigars. She has snatched from him his exclusive right 10 club life; she takes his job away from him if she wants to, and she ei- bows him in the walks of life in which he was foolish enough to think at one time he was supreme.
 | What Is there left for him, now that she has captured his suspenders? Very little. If she could only learn to step forward when getting off street car, mans inferiority to her would be ss
 abolished forever"
 Rev. Father Doyle of Washington in Ia lecture on divorce and in comment ing on President Roosevelt's senti-
 ments voiced at the Mothers Congress
 Is quoted as saying:
 l Much of the trouble nowadays aris- I Ing from divorce and race suicide | comes from the prevailing distorted | type Of gentlewoman. There Is some ] ahing wrong in the social training that
 produces such a type. Her ideals are
 entirely paganistic. She is said not l to be mere wofnan.' and therefore she
 Is unwilling to put up with the sac.
 rifces and confiaements ok the home
 and as consequence she refuses tho
 burdens of motherhood and when the
 ardor of the passion masquerading un.
 der the divine name of love burns out
 some other stimuluS must be found in | another environment The exquisite
 feminine Is not healthy mans whole
 some ideal. The woman with fully
 developed vanity and with an embryo
 heart, the coQuette who is a trifier with humanities and an evader of life's re-
 alities; the human butterfly who must
 live on honey and disport only in life's | sunshine and who has no taste for suf- nIrfn ~nfI 0R I.-
 home life, the spendthrift, whose chiei
 use for partner in marriage is that | of a bank on which she has an unlim. | ited letter of credit. This is not the
 woman stuff of which wives and moth.
 CTS are made. Their conception of
 marriage is but a new ring for their l finger or new incense for their vanity The Americans love for all that is | imported and utter want of apprecia-
 tion of the home production in art has
 been pointed out by Sir Caspar Pur-
 don Clarke who has recognized the
 healthy condition of American art A
 New York writer on the subject says 1 T am very gratified to see that Sir 1 Purdon appreciated the weak absurdity
 which characterizes American collec- 1 tions, both private and in museums
 and that Is the ignorant negation and | neglect of the brilliant and powerful home talent which is demonstrated in | our American art.
 | This fact has been patent to every | intelligent foreigner who has visited our museums and our private collec- | tions. but Sir Purdon Is the first per- | son of authority who has made it pub- lie. His brief stay here was not suffi- | cient to enable him to become &C., | quainted with our art schools, which,
 upon Investigation, he will find upon a
 very high plane and quite rivalling l those of the Royal Academy, the
 Beaux Arts and the Munich schools.
 The opportunities for women in our
 art schools exceed those extende d | abroad. With these he will become | further acquainted when he resides
 among us. To find him an appreciator
 and champion of the brilliant American painters Is very gratifying"
 | CITIZENS MAS MEETING.
 l The mass meeting which the mem bers of the Civic League had hoped to have on the 18th of March was una voidably postponed by the announce ment of a great Theatre event for that 1 evening. Perforce the women of the | league yielded and arrangements are being completed for a delightful pro- | gram of informal talks by the most at | tractive speakers of the city on the evening of the 2Sd at the Carnegie library. The president placed this matter in the hands of Mrs. Robert Goldthwaite, to whom the league Is in- debted for many valuable suggestions l nx. 4hn nP fha anfiDo