The evening world., 1911-02-13

act ristic.
"It IL safe to say that the spread
OF divorce 10 due more than any
thing else to the personal SELFISH
ness the personal sxtravagancs and
h personal aversion to anything
unpleasant Of the modern woman OF
the world. And her example 10 OF
influence on the less wsu-to-do
woman whose unhappy married life
is unrelicved by tho distractions
open TO the rich.
in the mair. the RESTRAINED self
IS 5 anG ne exaggerated extrava-
sauce leads ANY a rich woman to ask;
what am | getting out of i:?'-noi
What am I bringing to it?'
more Foolish Expenditure"
with low ideals. additional incoms
does not mean more of higher saus
factions; II means only more foolish.
cumulative, snowy expenditures; and in
this competit!on-as in the building OF
battleships-there is no place TO stop
An increase of salaries to academic
men. Cor instance. does not necessarily
mean more thinking, more ship
mere books and more aids to learning
:. may possibly mean only longer ostric!,
feathers aud wider hats Tor women who
:S.Hk they must compete with the idle
r!ch."
= occurred 70 nc. n:'cr reading Pro-
~aughlin's !ndictmcr; OF rich women,
49,. T.. a.f-I. 80. Ia #aragHtn- IN hanF
what an Intelligent membC" OF tn
criticised class had to y about It.
Marian Cox, author of The Crowds
and the Yelled Woman" is the wife Of
John W. Cox, treasurer OF the CIVIC
Alliance, and reputei TO he a Million
a!re. Mrs. Cox had contributed TO the
February Forum a brilliant article
which she called woman in PROFILE
which indicated that she might agree
IT. some points at least with Prof
Laughlin, so I dropped in at her home
No. II East Thirty-elghth street. to ash
her opinion OF our women OF wealth.
II indorse every word of Prof, Laugh
Inns article" said Mrs. Cox. i ~
much farther than he does.
with q freedom and i~ndepend-
srce enjoyed by no other women
in the world, our American women
have never set a standard. never
originated an deal. Our houses
are ruled by our servants. NO
American woman dares to be
thrifty, because thrift 10 not . part
of the bslow-stairs ideal. Our
fashions are set by the demi-mondo
of Paris with an added touch OF
Oriental extravaganza. Even u
philanthropies are dictated by snob-
biShness.
Charity As a Social Ladder.
1.-THE American woman revolves In a
unchanging orbit OF the personal.
have found that the members OF tn
philanthropic societies I happened
Join cared for charity only as II ad
vanced them socially. You know a
we'll as I do that some New York socI
ETY. women employ press agents to kee
their anne and pictures CONSTANT
before the public. But perhaps 80
have read the description OF my heroin
in Woman in Profile That is slmpl
a study from life OF the New for
society woman. Here 1t Is"
Mrs. Cox read from the Forum:
"'Cynthia Marlowe. in personallt.
was stanch. sallow and strident; an
affected the extreme OF smartness
attire and manner. She had watchfl
eyes, an indiscreet mouth, unable I
close over its stores. and a shapely moi
whose ~nostrils had each a little mic
In them, as though worn there by h,
constont seeming for victims for snub
In character she was the typical An
erican woman, as the possession
great wealth evolves her.
Calls Her Typical.
"'she was e%npanoplied in suspicion
regarding everything o. her own natio,
ality. and was so much like all h,
social compatriots that her chief aim
life was to distinguish herself fro
them. Thus she expended her energi
and time In a calculating vigil Of III
She Was v!gtlant against any soroU