Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

simply pathetic; but it
degrades men by making them cheap hollow insincere
queruous, bogus Very often it utterly wrecks them
body and mind.
Nearly always the woman who seeks asylum in Bo-
hemla does so in spirit of protest against what she
considers the unreasonable restrictions that world
She doesn't seek to turn the world from its traditions
by becoming Bohemian. Her flight to Bohemia is
ously of the "shackles" that the SNUG world places
upon women who yield to conventionalty: But
women who couldn't tell you the difference between
Bohemia and Bechuanaland talk in the way.
The woman who enters Bohemia with or without
her eyes open and generally does give you pretty
farish argument cluttered though her argument may
be with trayed sophste as to her reasons tor taking
the STEP She has the grace too to make her argument
sort OF DEERE thus granting you that she stands IN
need of defense. Her argument defense will be
rataplan of familiar phrases: the world unfairness
to women; the 'cramped lives that conventionality
requires women to lead; the tyranny of SNUG dogma
over woman individuality of thought; the "shriv
cling effect OF outworn custom; the contracted
sphere" allotted to women-you will recognize her
phrases as they fow perhaps mentally dlscountlng
them with their flowing. And if you utterly fair,
you may perhaps mentally grant that, hackneyed and
threadbare though of her points be- her gen.
eral argument for wider liberty for can't be
wholly deficient in merit, considering that her line of
reasoning has the unqualified not to say the shri in
dorsement OF ausere women and organizations OF Wo-
men who wouldn't know Bohemian from Brahman
If they saw them standing side by side.
What the Male Bohemian Is
RUT the is wholly different with the male Bohe
milan. AS society is at present constituted, men have
no shackles worth mentioning; they have no "limta
tons of sphere nobody seeks to tyrannize their
individuality of thought isn't lurking around
waiting for chance to shrive EN-; they wouldn't have
leg to stand upon in complaining of cramped lives"
All that the world asks and requires of the male bped
is that h clay the game. and play according the
rules, win - fot men, neither exactng
The male Bohemian is the fellow who refuses to play
the game according to the rules A may be al
lowed to do that If she doesn't like the game it
to be O the privileges of her take her doll
rags and quit but it is a cheap performance the
part of male individual 1t is performance akin to
that of the peevish, natured little boy who, be-
he isn't allowed to bat the ball around the
lot all the time, declares that he ant gon to play
no MORE Odd you ever see boy like that grow up
to amount to anything)
When a male individual starting out by taking the
game he finds it, gets into the swirl with the world
of and finds that the pace is strong for him. he
pretty likely to adopt one of two attitudes % Con-
fess himself failure, 2) proclaim the world failure
The male Bohemians among the chaps who take
the latter view. When they fall down their chosen
task through weakness of character lack of industry
stick at-tveness the absence of compelling mas
culinty they attribute their fadown the fact that
they're possessed of 'artistic temperament "psy
chic temperament" frazzled phrasesD and straight
way nurturing crouch against the ''smug" world