Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-03
cRITICIsEs OUR WOMEN.
Calls Them Dressed UP Crooks-Only
Beauties Were Foreign

The American woman" said NJ
Alexander Ular, the foreign editor of lie
Petit Journal, our latest and sternest
critic, has fine back"
Il saw it in all its beauty at the Met
ropoiItan opera house the other night,
and | must say l admired it. Also. her
shoulders which she 50 proudly exhibits
But for the rest my opinions of her
have not altered from those | expressed
last week, except that | think her more
hypocrltical even than | had supposed
Seen III all her splendor at the opera
she certainly is more beautiful than the
French woman, but she has neither her
grace nor her charm
The scene at your Metropolitan does
not compare with that at the opera in
Paris. The performances, ] must adj
NIT, are good, but for the rest | found
boxes is particularly funny.
Dressed Up Crooks.
The women, in all their gorgeous cos
tunes and with their too abundant dia-
monds, hang suspended over the hose
as if they were in baskets or SO many
balloons. They do not look any more at
ease than if they We're thus hanging
Many of them looked, if you will par
don me. like so many crooks in their Sum
day best. They showed off. They were
conscious of their clothes and their dia-
IIluHdss huu dCteu DIS IL Lney cOutu not be-
come accustomed to them.
The little old lantern suspended from
all the boxes made them look like Chr
nese flower boats. In Paris the Opera is
a fairy scene of light and luxury. where
everyone appears perfectly happy and
entirely at their ease.
Another thing that struck me here
was your foyers. Nobody uses the foy-
ers here. They look like empty sheds or
stalls.
And the people in the body of the
house carry their hats and coats with
them. because they are too Stingy to pay
% cents for having them checked.
"0n;y Beauties Were Foreign"
In the foyer l saw three beautiful
women; two of them were Spanish, and
the other German"
And you saw no beautiful Ameri.
cans?"
20, yes. several; but they looked as If
they Were cut out of marble or wood
They had not the air of race, of aristoc-
racy. that the French women possess
And how do our brains compare ~
90" answered NJ. Uiar. lightly, $50
ciety women all over the world are geese
There are, to be sure, exceptions, | have
met one woman of real intelligence here
Miss Morgan, daughter of j. Pierponi
Morgan. | talked with her at a dinner
and Mrs. Hartman sat OH the other. That
struck me as peculiar this representa-.
tive of labor sitting between these two
members of the nlultimillionaire families
Paris would laugh at it. Miss Morgan
seemed to me to possess intelligence. SHE
had the gift of conversation"
Even immortality Is Charged.
Il have no complaint to make about
the American woman's intelligence. II
fact. in America the man is more en-.
shaved TO the woman than anywhere else
In that respect yours is the most civilized
country in the world. But | do say tina,
the American woman is hypocritical and
in a certain sense, immoral.
THE American woman invented fir
tation. We had not such word in QUA
language and had to borrow yours. Fir
tation is immoral. You play with fire.
"You have seen cat play with ]
mouse-cajole it, caress it, softly worry
it with her paw through every stage OF
hope and despair, and finally break its
backbone with her teeth. That is what
the American woman does with mau
only she breaks his heart instead of his
back
The American woman, believe me, is
flirt and hypOcrite. and as | saw hel
last night in the boxes at the opera shc
also, in the great majority, is a goose"