The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05

We've got to bear 1t as best we may sighed Nancy theatrically, flor at last somebody has told us the truth about ourselves-Prof Wnnman Lloyd Phelps" "Eh? Whats that?' asked the Major Whats he said. and who is he that has dared?"
 | Prof. Williams Lloyd Phelps of Yale" she returned. "has made the announce nent that we women aren't what the Greek women were. In face or figure. He says we are the caricature of the Greek woman of antiquity"
 ''The reason he says that" the Major defended. 'is probably because he's a fossilized old professor in a boys school and doesn't know what he's talking about. In the first place I'd be willing to stake my last dollar that he hasn't seen a young woman since the war Have YOU studied the subject, Maior?" asked Nancy. ''I mean have you really considered the modern wom- ans lack of beauty?'
 I've not considered her LACK of it. mo-" said the Major gallantly flor I do not admit that she lacks anything when 1t comes to physical perfection. My life has been spent in approaching her beauty"
 And you've been so given over to the modern woman that you haven't looked up what the Grecian women really were?" asked Nancy
 "I know 'em all,' said the urbane Major I've got copies of everything that, Phidias and Praxiteles ever did"
 "why Major" Nancy leased, You know about
 That naughty young sculptor named Phidias.
 "who sometimes did things that were hideous.
 He made Aphrodite
 Without any nightie,
 And shocked the oyer-fastidous." "Er-Er-Ah-Hem" stammered the Major. I'm surprised at you, Miss Nancy. But as I was about to say. I've l been collecting Venuses and Nymphs as represented in ancient Grecian sculpture I for 5o years, and to my mind there are certain types of American Beauty that
 far surpasses the women who lived by the bluc Adrlatic centuries ago. I do not doubt that your professor thinks he can
 prove his statement Maybe he would cite the Venus de Milo as a representative Greek woman. Of course in a statue that type is of heroic mold-eght feet high
 nearly twice the height of the Hellenic woman, but we know that the Grecian
 woman was not tall and that the Ameri-
 can woman of today has her beat a hundred miles,
 q know dear old man who sternly de- | clares that there are no more great actors
 on the stage and no good plays, and when I asked him." said Nancy. ''his reason for such statement. he admitted
 that he hadn't been inside of a theatre l in 40 years, but he read what the news
 papers and magazines had to say on the subject I dare say your Yale profes-
 sor hasn't seen anything except those
 New England student ladies who wear
 green goggles and carry a reticule and
 attend lectures up in Massachusetts for | lo' these many years.
 l T think" said the Major, as he stepped | to the window and drew aside the curtain and saw a bevy of beautiful young wom-
 cn coming down the avenue. that we | should extend the professor an invitation
 to come to Birmingham. I would like te hear his opinion when he has seen some 1 of the charming women who dwell in our
 Alabama town.
 Look at that pretty young creature
 over there" continued the Major, point
 ing to a tall. slim princess as she turned the corner. 'She looks like some young Diana of the Chase. See those broad
 shoulders. that flat back, and slender waist and the way her head is set upor her shoulders. I've never seen sucf | shoulders as the southern woman has
 Pooh. What could dry as dust old Mas
 sachusetts professor know about beauty | unless he'd slip off from Rhetoric and Geometry and Physics and Calculus and come South. where we could show him 1 the real artcle?"
 'Ir. William Ordway Partridge" said Nancy, following mp the subject de clares the American women are superior 1 to the Grecian women. He attributes fl
 to the fact that the modern woman spends so much of her time out of doors
 MT. Hartley, secretary of the National