Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
HUTCHINSON LETTER is
GIVEN ANOTHER SCORING

! Heraldl: l am glad to note that a few
people have not allowed Edward L.
Hutehison's letter of February to
pass unanswered.
May I add the protest of an "aver-
age" woman against the tissue of false
hoods which he has so "chivalrously''
| (?) launched against my sex?
When a man speaks so bitterly, so un-
justly about womankind he villifes the
mother who bore him, and one cannot
help wondering what woman turned
him down" or what sort of women he
has been consorting with to have gained
such belittting opinion of them.
Now to refute some of his specific
Notwithstanding with hats. |
have been wearing some sort OF head
gear (out doors) for almost half cen
tury-custom made it necessary, else
1 should have been glad to have gone
bareheaded, as we are doing at the
present time, to a great extent and
much to the discontinue of the mil
liners.
However, my hats have never cost
more than 81, except once when my
husband took me to the wholesale mil
linery establishment of q friend and
chose the hat for me, paying therefor
the magnificent sum of $15. The ma
terfal of that hat served for several
seasons, as l did it OVER myself.
I have never bought more than two
or three hats year and sometimes
not that many, often doing over my
old hats.
When Mr.. H. sees a bevy of women
before the enhancing beauty displayed
in the window of m1lliners shop ne
shouldn't suppose that they are all go
ing to rush in and buy $50 or $lOO
chapeaux Most of them are studying
the styles to copy at home.
Women are not always giving away
the secret economies of their ward
robe, and men are so apt TO th!nk
when a gown or hat is pretty and pc
coming that it must have cost lot
of rnonev-as it surely would have in
the case of his own garments-and SO
we are often unjustly accused OF eX-
travagance.
Although e. L. H. claims that the
man milliner makes the hats we women
wear [ have yet to see man TRIM
ming a hat, and the first man-made
hat to wear, although l have seen nun
dreds of women doing such work. he
may own the business, but girls do the
actual work.
Not long ago 1 overheard a man
foorwalker in milliner store try to
overcome a woman's objection to nav
ing an aigret in her new bonnet-sne
thought 1t was inhuman. He INSISTED
that all the feather ornaments ana
birds used in the trimming OF hats ana
bonnets were manufactured from the
plumage of domestic fowls WHICH hau
been killed for food.
| Whv blame woman for wearing
nretty things when they are forced
upon her by superior man?
AS to the matter of clothes: Never
in all my life, have I possessed but
one tailor-made gown or SUIT, ana
that suit cost less than $40, whereas
| Mr.. H. says the tailored suits or the
| average woman cost 500 or there
ahouts I have two grown daughters
/ and neither of them has ever had a
suit made by a tailor-for them' l
mean.
Thev are both earning good salaries
! as school teachers, but have not fell
justified in paying the exorbltant
prices which men demand for sewing
We are not "dowdies." either, let me
remark. ..,
of our own clothes, thereby saving
many a dressmaker's bill
; AS for the average man contentlne
himself with a SIS outfit annually
we'll I guess l have never met the
average man.
The men of my own household and
acquaintance wear much better cloth-
ing than that. 80 -,
so dreadfully biased he could ind a
oood MANY stores-fine ones, too
where only mems wear is sold, rlgh'
here in Los Angeles, and besides these
all the big department stores Where
women's finery is displayed, also carry
mems clothing.
IF the men are crowded off Hill and
fhp nxPlnSiVe pa
irons of scores of places along Spring
and Main streets, and behind those
swing-doors the price of many a pound
of beef passes over the par III eH-
change for the LIQUID hell which nelth-
or clothes a man or his family nor
makes him a better husband, fatner OF
citizen. it'll,
Again, if the grammar schools, hlsii
schools and normal schools are Inohop-
olized by the girls, whose fault is II
Rows have an equal opportunity Win
their sisters, If the boys follow the
example of the men and learn 70
smoke and chew tobacco, and tnefepS
) dull their intellect and deaden the I'M
pulse for a higher education, that is
no reason why the girls should stoF
school at a tender age.
T DENY the allegation that men are
crowded out by Women-out OF any
thing that they desire anywhere. But
there. are still some colleges and uni
versities whose doors are closed tc
| women. ,,.o.
The average product of the colleges
and yersities-women's schools-do
not find refuge in a cheap clerKshlE
in a dry goods store or, at best, oper-
ates a typewriter as Mr.. II. asserts
but mans" our public schools and otn-
| or institutions of learning, and III
manv ways contributes to the thought
the wealth, the output of the industries
of the world. They are not all cheaI
guvs. either; the superintendent of the
Chicago schools-a woman-receiYeS
$40 600 year, and she is worth 1t.
In the city of New York $4,000 Womer
are supporting their husbands anc
, families and there are 12,000,000 work
ing women in the United States.
All over the country women are ST.
, lently. uncomplainingly carrying the
burden of the family while their dis
solute. idle husbands waste precious
hours gosslping on the street corners
in saloons, the poolrooms and other re-
sorts of the male biped.
These human parasites, without the
natural instincts of gentlemen, delight
: to blame all their hard luck on tht
, long-suffering, patient women, ano
, sometimes their inbecile babblings ftnc
their way into public print-more's the
pity and shame!
Unless Women-all Women-are vest
ed with the same power of self-goVern'
uent that men have and can help reg
ulate the various monopolies and al
the forces which make for the veal ol
woe of the commonwealth, of which
they and their children are part, lei
no mere man" dare hold woman re-