The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-08-08
WOMEN IN BIG CITIES lLL.TEM.
PEREO BECAUSE SHOES PINCH.
CAN YOU BLAME HER2
DRESSES THE MAIN CAUSE
Doesn't Worry the Country Girl.
Whose Strong Body Means Sunny
observation-disclosures Wreck Nerves
The New York World says.

"lf more of the women in New
York City knew how to ptch hay and
milk COWS there would hc less need
OF divorce courts
After this cryptic sta,omcnt Miss
Mabcllc Mcckcr. acrobatic dancer in
"Thc Midnigh, Sons was silent
while she doftly bound the soft folds
OF her hair with blue band Her
task completed, she wheeled u her
chair in front of her dressing room
mirror and faced me.
Most Of the women iu New York
city or any other big city. are so
IN tempered that a man with the dis.
position of saint could not live
with them" she announced 40
wonder the divorce courts are so fun
that some Of the cases are tried In
five minutes to hurry and make room
for others"
But YOU are making the women
entirely responsible" | protested.
We'll. they are" agreed Miss Meek.
rr. but u is because they are ignor.
ant Just stop and think that 80 per
cent of the women in This city today
are dressed in clothes that make
them physically uncomfortable They
have eaten things that give them a
headache or make them actually ILL.,
Their muscles are so soft from lack
of proper exercise that the slightest
eNortlon fatigues them. No wonder
they are III tempered
" \ baby cries when a pin Is stick
ing Il. Can you blame a woman for
losing her temper when aoth her
shoes and her corsets are pinching
hero
But We would be so conspicuous
in mother hubbards' and bare feet, q"
suggested.
You do not have TO go To thu
other extreme To be comfortable" +"
the dancer explained. Look at me, do
look ungainly? Yet there is not an
article of dress on me that hamper
the proper use of my muscles
''lIut what We women of this city
need is to get back 10 nature" Miss
Meeker went on. We need to be
more like the country girls, with their
healthy, strong bodies and their sun.
ny dispositions And II Is just be.
cause they are so healthy physically
that they are healthy mentally as
well who ever heard of a farmer
getting divorce from his wife? No.
body, ! guess. The divorce court
is a city institution. not national
one.
Il am country girl-born aud
brought up in the country | coulO
not stand this life in the city II lid
not 90 back to the farm between SEA
soon as was able TO be moved
made mighty quick time for nome
and the old oaken bucket cut in
Kansas"
Miss Meeker paused
DO yo uknow what would like
TO do?' she said suddenly. II woulC
/ like TO get one of these New Yorl
women who lis nervous wreck. on,
that is so irritable that nobody car
. NFff oil a
ON the Kansas farm with me for fou
months. could return her 10 hC
family at the end of that tim"
healthy good natured woman.
81 would have her:
Get up at o'clock In the mornml
and put on loose. comfortable gal
ments.
She would eat her breakfast at
and she would drink fresh milk il
stead of tea or coffee.
During the morning she woul
help pitch hay; this develops the mus
cles of the chest and promotes prol
er breathing,
IF there was no hay to pitch sh
might plow or weed the garden.
after her dinner in the middl
I Of the day she should rest flat on he
back for an hour
During the afternoon she woul
J. take a ride, returning to "A tepl
!. plunge and dressing for light SUI
, per
"To get a sufficient amount OF slec
!. she should be in bed at ocloc
/. every night
J. 81 would like to guarantee that an
5 woman who would follow those II
), structims would not have to fear "a
!. .inities' or the waning OF her hu
|. bands interest
And II he did not appreciate h,