The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-13
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

A foreign prina donna and professional
beauty has burst into print with an in
| junction to American women to spend
more time at their toilet tables, in order
to bring their husbands to the proper
state of subsection.
| Madame announces that our men do
not love US as the French love their wonl-
en- A Frenchman, she says. will ruin
himself to buy ornaments for the object
of his affection, whereas an American
man almost never COMFORTS himself in
this admirable way.
And this unfortunate state of affairs.
she explains to US. is due to the fact
that American women do not spend
enough time in making themselves beau
tiful. She herself spends several hours
daily at her toilet table, and any normal
French woman is willing to employ ten
hours in making herself beautiful IL she
may fascinate for one hour.
Stuff and nonsense.
Yes. Madame, that's not very refined I
know, but it seems to be the only way
can fifty characterize your advice.
I think the women of America have
been hearing altogether too much of this
sort of thing lately. There are, to be
sure, some Of us who think too little OF
the duty of looking as well as we can.
But there are just as many who think OF
little else.
I don't know much about F'renchmen.
but I do know that the middle class
ckbone-of-the-nation, average AmeTi-
can does care about something besides
physical beauty in a wife.
Madame, the pTlrna donna. thinks the
only way to keep your husband in love
with you IS to spend half the day at the
toilet table, fighting away old age, AMI
Stimulating youth and beauty after they
have departed. And what pray is TO
happen to the babies, the kitchen fire. |
the supper, and a few other little Incl
dentals about the house that occasion
ally require attention. while mother is /
chained to the toilet table, penciling her (
eyebrows and massaging threatening |
double chin?
WI In keen
her husbands love, 1 don't think she /
needs to go through with any such |
farcicaI performances as these.
Let her take a reasonable interest in |
her personal appearance studying be !
coming colors. adopting, or II necessary. |
adapting becoming styles, and putting on |
Ter clothes neatly and carefully
Let her give reasonable, amount of |
time to the care of her person, keeping |
ing everything in her power to keep /
Let her keep all fretful and complain
ing notes out of her voice. II were a /
husband. nothing would drive me from l
my home more quickly than a wife with
a fretful voice.
Let her keep her mind from stagnating |
and her horizon from narrowing by read
ing and talking about the worlds pro-
gress. and the things that count. We
read that men fell in love with Madame
de Stael after she was seventy Why
Because she never let her mind or spirit
stagnate.
Let the AFiefltdu WOfliol tdAAS oil
terest in her husbands work.
Let her try to be fair minded. kind, AMI
fact. obey the Golden
Rule-in her household relations and be
a lfvable friend as well as a lovable wife.
Let her remember the enthusiastic, fine
souled girl her husband fell in love with
and idealized. and never let that girl
wholly die within her.
Let any American woman do all or half
these things, and even II she has no /
toilet table in her home. think that IN
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, she
will be able to keep her husbands love
Till death US do part
To be sure. ] don't mean that II viii be
the kind of love that will make him ruin
himself to buy.he ornaments.
Merely the inferior American quality or
love that makes man glad TO toll to
make his woman a pleasant home. and
eager TO come to that home when the
toll is done.