Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17
Misfortunes Charged to Man.

~lSCCSSlNG "woman's troubles.
IN a paper noted for its candor
~ Dorothy Dix puts all the blame
@ on the descendants of Adam.
&&%AI very much as man charges his
- ~delinquencies to the daughters
OF Eve. This equaTzcs the blame. But there
Is some slight difference. According to the
DIX gospel, women strive to please men.
ana TO this Original sim is due the awful
Duroen OF dress which women carry through
life. Not the quantity, but the variety
which fashion suggests, PROMPTED by the
desire to please. "Of course saws Dor
othy, in an aside, 1T is only among our
selves that we admit that we dress TO please
men. That is all right. Everybody to her
trade secret. and II a woman can persuade
anybody that her hair grows in a marcel
wave by nature and that her cheeks are
not hand-painted and her waist measure is
twenty Inches without her stays. why, so
much the better for her.
But II women don't powder and rouge
because men like a peach; II they don't lace
because men are irretrievably committed to
the hourglass figure; IL they don't wear
French heels because for a thousand years
men have sung the charms Of little feet.
VIII somebody kindly arise in meeting and
explain the phenomenon Of why, when
women assemble among themselves, they
put cold cream on their noses, don their
kimonos and wear ~flip-flap slippers.
Moreover, 1t is man himself who is the
inventor Of fashions that crib, cabin and
confine. Who invented the skin-tight tailor
made? A man-Redfern. Who devised
swathlng, eel like draperies that demand a
figure as skinny as a skeleton? A man
Worth. Who, this very season. robbed us
OF orr ppttiCnatq and cont 80 ,If,.a-t.- -.
into the world? a man-Paauin.
In what countries do women luyuriate in
loose, comfortable Mother Hubbards? In
those blessed oriental lands where the foot
OF the man mllliner and dressmaker IL nm
known.
Furthermore, beloved, what forces US to
wear these uncomfortable nominations that
choke and squeeze and bind? Again I say
man. Tor 1t does not escape the observation
or the sillicst girl baby that while man de-
rides us for our lack OF sense in dress. It is
the woman with the slimmest waist. the
highest heeled slippers and the thinnest silk
stockings that gets all of his attention.
"Of cooking 1t Is scarcely necessary TO
speak. Except for man, the art of dining
would be lost, and life would be run on a
tea and toast and canned goods basis that
would Danish the thornlest thorns of ex-
lstencc-the cooking stove and the servant
girl problems.
IT Is for man alone that woman sews.
and bakes, and preserves, and jeIls, and
makes OF herself a burnt offering on the
kitchen range. Left to herself. the festive
sandwich, the suoculent olive and the sus-
tanning caramel would suffice, and Mary
Jane might go or stay at her own sweet
pleasure.
.But why delve deeper into the painful
Enough has been said to show
"a' "heh woman was created she found
trouble in the shape Of man waiting for
her and from that day to this she has beon
CHASING after it whenever 1t showed a dis
to get away from her. She has
welcomed her atfliction, for while life with
Il husband may be full Of stress and storm.
"ithout one 1t is cinders, ashes and dust,
ana generally speaking, the more n man
worries a woman, the better she loves him