The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-24
From the Louisville 'Courier-Journal.
~ ENERALLY speaking, the college
professor Is msquoted and the


~ ENERALLY speaking, the college
professor is misquoted and the
~ interview is repudiated with con-
siderable feeling Some times the inter-
viewer is careless and the professor has
every right to resent being held up to
scorn by readers and writer's as an ex-
ample of that common geological speci-
men, the two-legged ass Whether or
not DIR. Max Baf, Phi. D., fellow In
psychology of Clark university, did ac-
tually write the illustrated article upon
women to which his name is signed by
yellow journal we do not know. For
ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain a certain type of American news
paper is peculiar. But If DR.. Baff did
say what is said under his signature he
Is the most unkindest" and the most
unchivalrous of critics, and he gropes
In the dark. If he is married, and as yet
not murdered, Mrs. Baff is model of
forbearance.
| The feathers and paint worn by women
mark woman as the unevoluted savage
who trails centuries behind her lord and
master in the march toward higher
civilization, according to DR.. Baff She
wears feathers on her hat like a Black
foot, and paints her cheeks as literally
as an Ogolalla Sioux going out to seek
little dip in the gore of the encroach-
| ing Anglo-Saxon.
Feathers, paint, beads, bracelets, long
hair walls the doctor of philosophy,
mark the savage"
| Continues the learned man dolorously:
1.-The glory of woman. they say, is her
hair. As a physician it is my, contention
that it takes blood and nerve to nourish
the long hair of women, and therefore the
less hair on our women the more strength
to their intellect. Long hair, arranged
in fantastic shapes, frequently made
more grotesque by artificial msans-is this
the glory of women? Certainly it is the
glory of the savage"
| And yet it does not seem to the lay
mind that the world would be better off,
and life upon it enhanced in value, If the
dear girls were dressed in colorless gar
ments, and If the worlds wealth of
precious stones and precious metals were
left to CLINT and glisten underground. 1t
is not plain that mankind would be hap
pier II womens heads were as innocent of
hair as the body of a Mexican pup.
Let us praise the engaging savage
rather than bury her beneath our con-
domination. There are reasons for Ma
lures ordering of affairs which may not
be dreamed of in the philosophy of our
melancholy Horatio
lie 70 fhot
many generations before the good King
Thebaw sat upon his lily throne in Man
dalay the population of Burma dwindled
| to such an extent that there was the
gravest concern among the thinkers of
that country Again and again the wise
men of the realm were called together
to consider the problem that confronted
a country in which marriage and giving
in marriage threatened to play out. and
of a population that showed no cor
responding birth rate. The women Of
Burma at that time wore garments severe
| ly plain in cut and color, and went about
with Their faces yelled from the profaning
gaze of man. The Queen of Burma pom
dered the question uppermost in the pub
lie mind and drafted a proclamation to
the effect that henceforth Burmese wo-
men should go without wells and dress
themselves in apparel at once becoming
and striking.
| Burma at once burst into flame with
adjoining silks Solomon in all his glory
was ecipsed. The Burma girl became q
bird of such ridescent plumage that tho
gorgeous east had nothing to equal her.
Franticaly everybody married In haste,
and 1t is said that nobody repented at
leisure. The great national problem was
solved by the wisdom Of woman.
Burma throve populously ever after
ward.
The moral that the legend points is