The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1911-10-06

Idea Is Artists.
i. No more Dartering OF American heir
esscs for foreign titles; an end to love
less marriagcs; the discaryling Of tht
cigarette and cocktail as necessities
, for the mp to date society girls: tho end
Of the follies Of the -Four Hundred.
Tie above arc some Of the reforms
which Beatrice E'arnham Otto. the
Boston and San Francisco artist and
ScuptrcsS. expects 10 bring about by
the establishment vi IN independence
colony IN Monument Park. near Grand
Junction, Colo. whore tho girls of high
society and the daughters of working
mon will be brought together to he
taught new ideals of sane American
life.
Mrs. Otto says that the girls in the
east are "mere dolls" and that she
does not altogether blame them for
their attitude toward life because Of
the way they are brought up from, ba-
byhocd.
Mrs. Otto has been interesting some
of her wealthy eastern friends in Ter
ideas, and they are enthusiastically in
favor of them. She intends to use her
own private fortune to carry out the
scheme for making the American girl
again the independent creature she
should be.
Within few weeks Mrs Otto ex-
poets to start the colony with about
a score Of girls with whom she is ac-
Quainted in the eaSt-1ot only hciress-
es. but poor wOrl:ing girlS-wllo. she
believes. will benefit by a life in the
open. Mrs. Otto. as Beatrice Farm
ham. left her home in South N'ey-
mouth and the Boston Art school more
than five years ago because she was
Disguised with modern society. She
has spent the Intervening years III San
Francisco art schools. and the major
part of her time among the Indians
of New Mexico and Arizona, living
their life and putting behind her the
education she received in Boston so.
ciety.
Faith In Westerners.
Of Indian whom have seen than the
gilded youth who ranks high in the
Four Hundred Of either New York,
Chicago or Boston. The woman Of
today has more chance to maintain
her self respect III tho west. where man
Is supposed to be rough and uneducat-
ed and uncultured, than in the draw
Ing rooms of the millionarcs of the
east" said Mrs. Otto in talking about
her new scheme.
II believe there are but few people
who disagree with me when | say the
attitude Of the American woman to.
ward marriage is all wrong. The girls
OF today arc brought up with the idea
firmly fixed in their minds that they
IRE the droues of society.
"How can you expect n girl reared
under such conditions to be anything
but silly doll? She is brought up un-
der such encrvating conditions that
naturally. If she Is child of wealth.
she will turn TO the cigarette and the
rocktail as a stimulant for her faded
nerves. And If this sort of thing were
confined to our heiresses-our members
Of the exclusive set-it wouldn't be so
bad. But the ways of society are aped
ny the daughters of the poor. The
girls arc allowed to take life easy,
while their mothers slave day and
night to give them this life of idleness
and Iaziness.
loveIess Marriages.
$50 what they have in their youth
they want when they marry. The girls
Of the poor do not want to work if cir
cumstances should compel it. and they
do not want to marry the men Of their
same class. They are always looking
Tor princes in disguise-some men who
Will promise them a life of idleness in
the future, as they have been accus-
TONED to since childhood. That is one
reason why we hear of so many girls
of poor parents being wronged by sleek
villains. They are brought up to it.
Loveless marriages are the rule rather
han the exception both among the
poor and the rich.
III some Of our modern society girls
who are i1nbued with the crazy notion
# marrying title will join with me
n Independence colony will guaran.
zee that they will soon forget what
taught them and take
'anc, common sense American view of
ifc," she continued. II propose, first
4 MI, that the members of the colony
hall return to naturc-that the girls
hall live the natural life which has
nado the western bred girl the self
cliant young woman she is today.
eve will discard corsets and rats
md puffs and powder and give the
iris the real complexion Tan is n
'ood asset for any one, man or won.
N. It betokens health, and health is
wealth. We will live in the open in
1onument canyon and try to forget
be false notions which have meant so
much to many of our young women.
cigarettes and cocktails will be ia