The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
Letter to the Denver News.

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 w with candor that is occasion ally quite startling. The New York woman will do this with a frankness that Is more astounding than felicitous, more broadly outspoken than actually truthful She will. if of the prosperous, well bred and thoroughly well dressed set, who pride themselves on family con- nection and possess a touch of smart in tellectuality, say many lawless things, but seldom do one of them.
 She is type of the upper class met ropolitan of the twentieth century-dar- ing in conversation, never in deed; the exact opposite of her romantic and aris- tocratic sister of Europe In the eight eonth century, whose greatest effort was not to leave any social peccadlloes un- done, but to keep them all unknown.
 This type is rather exclusive. She lunches and shops only In the quiet ele- gance of the Fifth avenue district; Is one who would consider 1t crime to partake of food in the garish and gilt tering Broadway cafes. She knows they exist. in a vague, impersonal way, much as you and I know there is a darkest Africa. She never visits them; I can im- agine her shivering at the thought; yet, to her set, she will chatter on matters of morals and ethics in manner that the denizens of the gay restaurants along "the Great White Way would consider in be vernacular, the "limit
 It Is a pose, I imagine. But 1t is also a fact that this type of the New Yorker has grown vastly in numbers since Edith Wharton introduced us to Lily Earth in .crhe House of Mirth''
 Lew Fields, who plays the part of the henpecked husband of flashy woman in 'oThe Summer widowers." in the farce. is telling an associate his personal troubles.
 .oThen. I suppose" says the friend enigmatically, that you are against mar riage?"
 'sNo," replies Fields, dolefully, q am not against it. I am up against it. This remark suggests other interesting types Of a totally different order-the woman of moderate means who dresses with no other object in view than to win a man by external display, and by that means get within the sound of wedding bells. She Is very numerous. Tho great city, in fact. is teeming with well, but inappropriately dressed girls and near girls. It therefore happens that those who work are attired more elaborately, sometimes more richly, very often more tastefully, than the very prosperous wives of the rich and generous citizens. They look upon dress as their capital; their immediate occupation as ephemeral. Work for them is simply a passing injus- | tice There is fairer future and they intend to secure it's radiance-which Is attention, courtship. marriage-by means ] of attractive personal appearance. The woman worker of New York today, let me tell you, clearly understands the psychological effect of pretty clothes. It | is the keynote of her life
 | Making herself agreeable and always looking well is great catcher of men. He dangles eagerly after that kind of game, Wnlch frequent HeetHiss ionu eo kind of passive love. Propinquity is Cupids handmaiden. When a man sees woman at regular intervals and finds her attractive, she becomes a habit; he almost unconsciously proposes, and they subsequently are married without any great sentiment. In this way the work ing woman reaches her eagerly desired goal.
 One type of New York femininity is the non-existent old lady. That sounds rather paradoxical, but what wish to say is that among the well-to-do class of people there are no longer any old women. If your mother, or mine, lived in the metropolis now, she wouldn't be the dear old soul. with the prim black silk dress. the smoothly combed hair snug little bonnet. the touch of illusion