The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-06-07
DIANA DISCUSSES
THE HUSBAND HUNT
WITH HELEN ROWLAND.

and false hair. the time and money she
wastes on marching and masse cling. the
agony she endures freezing her ankles In
openwork stockings and pumps in winter.
and roasting her brain In pompadour rolls
and false pufs In summer. the fearful
lengths 10 which she goes TO squeeze a
plump figure or pad a shabby one into per-
feet curves, the way she bants and pants
and works in order 10 look like a copy OF
Venus or Psyche or Maxine Elliott. are
equivalent TO blowing a huntsman's horn
in the very face OF the herd. It's enough
TO brighten man to see a woman making
human snare OF herself. It's too fat
tering 10 him. II makes him feel too i'm
portant and hold himself at too high a
price. It's disgusting and Diana flung
away her cigarette with pretty little
shUdder
You seem to have had a great deal OF
experience" l remarked coldly
I have a brother" returned the hunt
ress laC0alcally. "A woman who has a
brother ends out a lot OF things about her
sex that she might not have known other
wise. The way the women pursue that
poor boy is nauseating BY the time I've
helped sort out his mail and answer his
dinner invitations and laughed over his
sentimental notes I begin TO wonder II
girls have any common sense whatever
It's nothing but my relationship 20 Apol-
10 that has made me the most popular
goddess among women" and Diana
laughed. Besides, she added, I do
know by my own experience how women
have changed. Just look at met and she
stood up and turned quite around 20 dis
play the perfect lines Of her dark green
tailOr-made hunting costume with It's alb
breviated skirt A few thousand years
ago I turned a man into a stag and had
him run down and killed by his own dogs
for merely gazing at my ankles and here
am wearing this thing that barely comes
70 my knees without so much as the
thought OF a blush"
It's very becoming" / said enthusiast
cally. who made it?"
The Three Graces" replied Diana.
They've set UP a smart shop In the Rue
Olympia; but" and she RaZed ruefully at
the plaits OF the abbreviated skirt, "a
man doesn't take any interest In looking
at ankles that are meant To be seen. The
way we fling our charms at then cuts the
edge and the color and the enthusiasm
right Off their illusions"
"Oh. we'll" I protested. defensively. ''if
we don't fling our charms at them, some
other girl will In the husband hunt. as
in any other sort OF hunt, it's the one who
gets there first and brings down the game
who gets the antlerg. The girl who wraps
herself in long skirts and high shoes and
nOnpeek-a-boo waists and a retiring man
ner isn't even seen nowadays"
Nonsense exclaimed Diana impa-
tiently. sitting down with a hirt OF her
skirts. IF there were such a girl she
would stand out In a spot light by con-
trast Besides, II isn't what he can see,
but what he can't see that interests a
man-even In a peelI-a-bOo waist. It's not
what he can get, but what he thinks he
can't get that he wants. Look at the way
| that scheming little Daphne led poor
| Apollo a chase and turned his head BY al
ways keeping just out of his reach. while
poor Clytie, who sat in the sun parlor
waiting for him day after day and max
ing calfs eyes at him, never so much as
got a glance from him. And Apollo is
perfectly human. even II he is my own
brother"
I'D forgotten that" ! said thought
fully
1T was all in the papers," rejoined Dr.
ana shortly. That's the unfortunate
thing about being prominent. One can't
even keep ones private little flirtations
out OF print here in Olympus. The family
AcAl UiNduAul duuAl IL ana Apollo went
about playing the most ear-rendlng tunes
on his dOleful old Tyre and refused 70
| touch his ambrosia even when mother
kept II hot for him. But he won't re-
strain himself Since he got an idea he
could sing he's acquired a penchant for
chorus girls that keeps US I'm constant
dread of a scandal"
Chorus girls" l said triumphantly.
seem to lie successful huntresses. They
marry most Of the eligible men floating
round noWadays--and they don't cultivate
a retiring manner nor keep their charms
hidden"
''Oh. well exclaimed Diana scornfully,
~ you are going to attempt to vie with
chorus girls" and she washed her hands
of me with a gesture. That's the trou-
BILE" she added with sudden inspiration.
Every woman attempts to be as fasci-
mating and as gaudily got up as a show
girl nowadays. They all look as II they
had just stepped out Of the second act Of
comic opera. with their exaggerated
hats and elaborate coiffures, and ridicu-
lous high heels and kittenish manners.
They are all overdone-and nothing over
done is effective, from chops and manners
to acting. Every woman sinks her indi-
viduality under a mountain OF clothes and
an artificial manner, until, as a result.
they all look alike, walk alike. and talk
alike. No wonder men have acquired that