The Washington herald., 1909-08-30
OF INTEREST TO THE WOMEN
ARE WOMEN DISAPPEARANCE
HERE'S A NOTE OF WARNING

FFom the Chicago Record Herald.
II Is a weli-known fact that many forms
of writing and also many manifestations
OF nature follow the form Of an arch.
ascending 90 climax. then descending
In the same manner Woman in her
physical proportions has accomplished
this same feat. The women OF the early
nineteenth century and Of the commence
ment OF the Victorian period were frail,
languishing creatures with curls and tiny
waists. given TO eating chalk and slate
pencils to keep pale and drinking vinegar
10 counteract any tendency 20 embon-
point
Toward the close OF the nineteenth CEN
tury there had been a marked change.
The American girl pictured by Gibson
and written about by Davis and others
had made her bow, or rather extended
her athletic palm. She was broad In
shoulders and hips and rounded as 20
waist. Her hair was bronZed by the sun
light, and hatless and without a parasol
she faced the hottest rays OF the sun
She played tennis. golf. and croquet She
roWed and swan and seemed very like
the divine plan for woman consummated.
Now we notice with alarm that she has
fed. VIII she make another I'm du steele
appearance. or viii she remain only
memory OF sweet fair woman with wind
blown hair guiltless OF rats, pugs. or ruff
frrs? VIII her rain-kissed, rosy cheeks.
that feared neither snow nor hail on ac-
count OF their natural tint, gladden. our
eyes no more? Shall her beautiful figure,
built on the lines Of true health and per-
feet grace, remain only on few posters?
SO It seems.
About ave years ago she began 10 dwin-
die and wither away First, her stun
ningly erect figure took on kangaroo
curves, and a straight front supplanted
all else in her ambition. Then the dimi-
mutton became rapid. Bust and hips
promptly disappeared, followed quickly
by all the curves Of the back This would
seem a subject for national or world
wide weeping and for prayers in concert
10 avert the threatening calamity OF the
loss Of woman from the population.
Man seems utterly unmoved by this
horrible catastrophe that threatens his
one-time idol Can II be that mankind
have formally but silently formed a
union 70 Offset the suffrage movement
and that along new thought lines they
are causing woman to disappear? Court
esy would forbid their expressing such
wish. But the worm will turn"
The rights OF woman have been dis
cCssed ad nauseam and the rights OF chill
dren have reached q point where a So
ciety for the prevention OF cruelty 10
parents is a crying need. Yet never has
writer's pen dwelt on the rights OF men.
The writer OF this article is impelled to
follow II up with a brochure or a full
hedged book on mems rights, for they
nave suffered IN silence long enough.
few comfortable, pillowy women
seem 10 have escaped this injection Of
the vanishing germ. and we can only
conclude that they have some time done
a few kind acts for men and are in the
exempt class in this worldwide mental
treatment for the obliteration Of woman.
The only portion OF womans anatomy
that has grown and swelled apace is her
head. and when that would swell no
more by natural means, or even by me-
chanical imitation. she began 10 pad II
out IN all directions Her color shapnes
the sunset on a July evening and may be
procured in either dawn or sunset effects.
with lip and eyebrow trimmings, at any
facial Disagreement shop.
Whether this overwhelming disaster
could be averted by a few rational acts
On the part OF the sex we are powerless
10 say. All people Of observation must
see the truth Of this, that woman is go
ing-going. Shall we permit the great
auctoneer TO say "GOne?" Or shalt we
bid ourselves in before Il Is too late and
on the framework that remains recon- |
struct magnificent, beautiful. breath /
Ing, laughing. and loving human thing
called woman?