Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-07
GIVES RECIPE FOR
PERFECT WOMAN
Must Conform to Type, Ee Young aud
Beautiful. in Order to bc I'd
mired aud Respected.


ticle which very plainly and buutI.
tells why her sisters are b iH- kept
down in the Struggle for industrial.
politica; and other lines OF advance
ment. The writer is 8hcta Chile
Dorf, and her article entitled Break
ing INTO the Human Race" appears n
the September number OF Hampton's
Ma&azine. THAI title su2gestsa dis
ceaefy SHE has nade-Jae= handicap 10
woman is the clearly demonstrated
fact that she is hot human: al best
only sex.
"Women, being a sex, are expected
to conform to type" says Mrs Dorr.
"and they are admired and respected
in proportion to their ability 10 cor
form. First Of all, they Mast be
young. This is absolutely essential.
The word young has had eafieas
interpretations in different genera
tons. Juliet Capulet, a perfeet cN=
ample OF the type. was fourteen.
Come and kiss NE, sweet and twenty.
Youths the stuff will nor endure.
sang the Bard of Avon. reaIi2in2 the
breyity of woman,s career Ralzae
moved the permissible age 10 thirty,
and there or Whereabouts II mas re-
manned. A woman must not be over
thirty years Of age. If she j.. She be-
comes ridiculous subject for jest
and merriment The comic Journals
would 90 out OF existence If ii wafe
not for old maids and motIrrs-l3l-laW.
Even in the state Where Women vo5a
and hold office, they are still under
TIE obligation to remain you're. FAes
are never asked to reeord ,dei~ age
on the registration books. ;ta 5s5eIi az.
The oldest grandmother in Colorado
is registered in the poll books -
twenty-one years old.
To fulfill the conventional iaeal 81
beant" is simple, whether 1t is easy or
not Just as nearly as nature, in co..
laboration with art. can maHaea il,
the type approXimates to tie solt.
smooth, Unconditional, uniutalligon1.
pink and white wax dolls usad 10 dis
play millinery and frocks in shop win
dows.
Beauty changes its details from sea
son TO season One year Beauty has
curves, another year angles. Beaa
t. waist line was formed on the
.1tr glass model a few years ago
ust now her waist line mclts into the
general scheme of stovepipe constitute
ton from shoulders to heels.
PiainGess, especially the plainness
of advancing years, is absolutely in
te1dictet.. Men, as they grow in years
and experience, develop lines express
sive of character, records of emot-
ion, struggle, defeat, victory. The
face of a man Of many experiences is
like of book of fascinating tales.
One never tires of reading it. But
womans lines are Just wrinkles, and
the first one is a life tragedy.
When the powder and t'!e rouge
and the dotted veil are at last power
less to conceal her wrinkles, woman
may as we'll give up. If anyone no.
ices her at all henceforth it will be
to think OF her as wreck of her
cnl I,,,or IL; ,f
Chief Justice White, or John Bigelow.
or ,tFncle Joe Cannon, Or any active
old man as wreck of his former self,
Young and beautiful must women
lie, and that is about all, except that
they .must be good, very. very good
And Mere men have been oddly gem
erous No women. They have allowed
hem a moral handicap, SO to speak
\ long list of misdemeanors which,
Theoretically, at least, are forbidden
% men tire indulgently permitted to
WuMten. Without losing any special
;astt, women may trifle with the truth
hey may break promise, they may
)etray a confidence, they may neg
ect liz, pay their debts, they may
mash at 'leaSt nine of the command
nents.
"The WOmen's code of a0nor, laid
lown for them by the men, contains
My one commandment. II they re-
lember to keep it holy they are good.
+ they break it trAey are bad, per-
aanently irgsVocably bad, To err is
uman. but it certainly is not woman-
y. Men could hardly have sustained
heir contention that they are the race
nd that women are a sex, had they
ot gained the willing cooperation
I the women themselves.
women are creatures of habit, and
nee they adopt a course they like to s
eep right on. See how amiably they
ork to keep their half of the Dopula- !
on in its place, and to train the 9TH I
half fos it's place. They begin with
a hoh I>oh