Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
THE FEMININE WOMAN

notice. observed the oQuare-JeWo0s
pug-nosed man. who didn't look as IL he'd
know the difference between the Higher
and Nobler ana q load Of steam coat
notice that the back advertising ends Of
some OF this months magazines publish .
Testimonial as to the merits OF . certain
brand Of unscented toilet soar written by
one Of the short-haired ladies who has been
doing her little bit during the past half
century or SO toward obtaining the fran
chise for women.
The picture OF the woman who likes the
unscented soap is run with the ad. and her
testimonial Is surely heap fulsome ana
gushy for q purely voluntary contribution.
in the course OF her remarks In the
testimonial she says this: abhor per
I'm going to take. with your kind per-
mission, q short-arm bin at that remark
OF hers about the perfumed woman.
I'M regular bug over wefl-perfumed
woman.
TO me q perfumed woman is. the real
thing in femininity.
The daintily perfumed woman who,
when she swishes past you. has something
about her that makes you vaguely recall
the old honeysuckie-covered porch that
you knew quarter Of a century ago
she's the one for rnine She carries with
her the suggestion Of asphodelian mead
ows and starlit dells, the cool aroma or
cornfields at dusk.
oUe SWlElS Dy you anu leaves IN your
heart a little Ginning back to the wild
roses that you picked on your way to the
old crick where you went in swimmin'.
When the datntily perfumed woman
sort O film back to those old mornings Of
your kidhood when the just-awakened
dawn smelt so sweet after you'd turned out
early to chop the kindling wood for the
kitchen fire.
she's feminine. the well-perfumed
woman; that's all.
Il want em feminine all the way through
for mine.
things I never gave two looks at a
woman wearing these So-ca1led common
sense clothes and shoes and such gear, and
I never met any other man that did. l
ever they blame please to wear, and the
tighter and straighter-front their corsets,
why, the better it suits me. The stayless
woman looks like a combination OF an Ellis
Island immigrant and fat lady out OF q
RubenS picture to me, and the woman
with fat-heeled shoes of the so-calied COM
nonsense kind looks to me as If she ought
to be policeman, or carrying the hod, or
something like that. 49,.
me for the womanny womant
Gimme a Tyre. or harp, or fugeinorn,
or a kazoo, or any old shing. that l may
sing the glories and sss praises of the
purely feminine woman.
She was here in the worlds early dawn.
and she's going to be right here alongside
round-trip excursions to Mars!
Il never could see the woman who wears
mems hob-nailed shoes, and suspenders.
and such like, and who flags scented soaps
and perfumes and things Of that kind be-
cause she considers EN- too womanish.
"Ail of the adora bleness of women con-
sists in their femininity.
IT'S because every once in a while she
gets her household work done early so she
can go upstairs and have good cry it's
because she macerates into pulp with
her because: it's because she admits our
premises and denies our conclusions; it's
because she'll begin to quicker her lips for
baby talk when she sees an infant a block
away; it's because she loves roses, and lacey
things, and s2-a-pound candy; it's because
she gives US the reproachful eye only when
we ought to be sewed up in q blanket and
dubbed to the verge of the other world; It S
because she'll dig and delve and scrape and
scrap for her husband and her little ones
until icy stalactites hang from the roof OF
Tartarus: it's because she dabS at her eyes
with a little wad of a handkerchief until
her nose Is red when she sees human SUI
fering-it's just because she's feminine, pal,
and hull, big heap better from every
point of view than we are just because she
dead lope, and plum loco over her, ever
since the days of the shepherd King of
Egypt! 5-4.-..=.
"If they want to perfume themselves let
| 'em. ], for one, like 'em perfumed. Let
'em do any of the old feminine things that
ways right, taking EN- en- masse. and they
don't make half many mistakes as we
men do.
Give Lutte, that I may chant of the
physical, mental, moral and spiritual lowell
ness of the perfumed. who is the typicaily
feminine wOmani Here's hopin' that she IL
be with US till the end Of the world, and
afterwardI That's mel"
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