The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-22

CdIIeSie Hall STUDIO ana played SONIC
of the sacred music of India on a ma
tive instrument
What you call here the New Wo-
man." she said, was known in India
500 years before Christ. With us at
that time women enjoyed more liberty
than the most emancipated American
lady today. With us women were
rulers, judges, statesmen, even gen.
erals in the army, more than 1000
years before America was discovered
1t was only when Mohammedanism
came in, and life and property were
no longer safe, that the Indian woman
was compelled to adopt seclusion and
the resulting inferiority to men.
I'm ancient times in India women
were teachers of science and religion.
Music was given to the world by
sciences of astrology and mathematics
were discovered by the great Hindu
woman, Lilavati. Brahmin women
were in the old days, and even today,
are great opponents OF logic, psychol-
ogy and moral philosophy"
If you can tell Chicago woman by
the size of her feet, a Boston woman
by her nasal twang, a Southern wo-
man by the dulcet melody .of her
voice, and a Western woman by her
broad shoulders. according to Mrs.
Mildred Manley Easton. Of the Life
AS a Fine Art Club, you can distin-
guish a New York woman by her
walk. There are a dozen different
species of the Gotham strut she says,
and each is indicative of a well-de-
fined type of character. In an ad-
dress to tie members of the club this
week she described the fifty-seven
varieties to the evident embarrass-
ment of several of those present.
nf a
self-consciOuS, Self-made wife of a
mushroom millionaire said Mrs. Eas-
ton.
We've all seen these poor, bedizen-
ed old birds of Paradise reaching out
a palsied claw in an imitation of a
high handshake, and hopping from
twig to twig of the social tree as
though hypnotized by the serpent of
ambition.
There's tae shopping walk of the
candidate for office; there's the Broad
way or hen pheasant walk. The res
taurant walk is the hen pheasant
strut with a touch OF hauteur, a chal-
lenge of comparison added.
ct is the most marked feature of
the gay night life of the city. One
woman after another comes in, each
with her chin lifted as high in the
air as she can get it; each with that
peculiar strutty walk from the hips.
s
challenge of the woman who lives in
the kitchen of her body. The restau-
rant walk says not only. Look at me- ;
but adds, See how superior I am to
the other women
Its a peculiar thing added the
philosopher of the peripatetic, that
the business walk and the society wo-
mans walk are almost indistinguish-
able. It's walk with emphatic
heels, a walk that brushes competi-
ton, that emphasizes the ego, that
declares war on anyone that stands
in the way. But it isn't a physical
walk like the Broadway variety.
drawing room of the body that starts
from here and she INDICATED by
drawing her hand across her waist
line.
"Then there's the snoopy, secretive
walk peculiar to the club woman"
Mrs. Easton added
Adjudged sane in this State and able
to care for herself and her property
which is valued at more than So
900, OO0 Mrs. Julia Watts Norris Cur
tis-Lawrence finds herself in the I'M
ique position of being held incompe-
tent in the State of Connecticut and
forced to submit to the trusteeship of
her fortune. For four years she has
estate but the courts persist in their
refusal to turn it over to her on the
allegations of her family that she is
extravagant and Incorporate. Re-
Gently the woman, who has been mar
ried three times became the wife of
DR.. Alfred Lawrence, a nerve special
list, who has been in constant attend
ance upon her for several years. Be
lieving that she is being discrimin-
ated against by the courts, she an
nounced yesterday that she proposes
to appeal from the decision handed
down against her last week reaff1rm-
ing her incompetency. In some res
pect her case is analogous to that of
Astor Chanler, former husband of
Amelie Rives, the novelist, and great
grandson of the late John Jacob AS
tor BY the judgment of the courts
of New York, Chanler, who escaped
from Bloomingdale, Asylum here ten
years ago, is insane, while in North
Carolina, where he now makes his
home he is held to be sane. 1t was
from the latter State, it will be re-
called, that he issued his now famous
challenge of who's looney now to
his brother Robert Astor Chanler,
when the latter became involved with
Lima Cavalieri, the grand opera sing
err, who got him to sign away his in
terest in most of his New York prop
erty as pre-nuptial settlement upon
her prior to their marriage in Paris.
The fortune which Mrs. Lawrence
seeks to control comes from Watt, the
builder of the worlds first steam en-
gines, and represents the increment
Of many years Of investment in New