El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-24
The Evolution of Woman
Men "EvOIUte7 just as Fast. and
There Are Always Admirers
For the Fair Sex.

WASHINGTON preacher is great

A WASHINGTON preacher is great
~ Iy concerned over the future of
- the American woman, because he
thinks that she is to become a husky
Amazon, who viii have no charms for
man. He says:
American women insist on playing
tennis, riding, running, walking and
swimming These things are giving
them undue physical development They
are going to have chests that will stand
out like a college athletes. and their
necks will no longer pc graceful and
pretty, but thick and full of hard mus
cles. They will be healthy specimens
but where will their tender. wOmanly
grace be? They will be robbed Of the
soft, feminine beauty that appeals to
man"
Cheer up. brother. There's no use in
worrying over women attaining any
state of evolution in which they will
not attract men, for whatever they are,
men viii like them that way.
Suits Him to II.
No matter how much women have
varied in different countries ages, and
conditions, the men of those different
countries, ages and conditions thought
the women just exactly right and were
suited by them to a T. For instance, in
the Orient, where the women run to fat,
q leather ueO llS uIe IS Lne lueal Letul-
nine pulchritude and the plumper Il
woman is the more she is admired. In
our country, on the contrary. the tele-
phone post is the accepted standard of
beauty in womanly architecture. and
our men vie with each other in shower
ings attentions upon the maidens who
bear the closest resemblance to the hv
ing skeleton.
It viii also be comforting to the par
son to reflect that mems taste in WOm
en- has changed as much as the women
themselves, and that the man of today
would no more marry a girl who was
just like his grandmother than he
would wear his grandfather's brass
bUttOned coat
Devoted Nurse.
For instance in the Lydia Languish
days, it was considered the proper thing
for girl to be very delicate and fragile
and for her to swoOn away whenever
anything unexpected happened.
Can you imagine man of today fall
, ing in love with that kind of a woman
You cannot. Nobody can. The girl that
attracts him is not the feeble creature
who has to lean on somebody's arm in
order to walk quarter of a mile. It
is the athletic maiden who can tramp
across country half a day and be fresh
as a daisy at the end.
Nor would a swoOn, however artistic
ally pulled of, make a hit with a mod
! ern young man. Weak heart, high
/ priced specialists, different climate and
! altitude Not for muir is the way he
/ would diagnose the case.
His Romantic Ideal.
! In other days it was esteemed gross
! for a woman to admit to having such a
thing as an appetite concealed about her
/ person, and it was thought that it
[ would shatter a mans romantic idea of
/ her if he saw her partake of a square
! meal. But fancy a man now with a
I wife who wouldn't eat with him! Why
] he'd call in the alientists to examine
/ her mind before the day was over. Nor
I would any young man nowadays be ir-
| resistibly drawn to a girl who didn't
; take the proper interest in food and
! good cooking. He'd surmise that she
! would be a little short in the house
J keeping fine.
silly Fool Bore.
Today the silly fool doesn't charm
I man. She bOres him stiff. Men want
/ their sweethearts and their wives to be
/ companions. able to understand the
things they are interested in, to discus!
intelligently the big books and prob
| lens of the hour.
The truth is that men change. and
I women change with them. or wOmel
/ change and men change with them, anC
/ each sex meets the demands that tn,
I other makes upon it. According to tn
legends that have come down to US from
the past. even the Amazons weren't al
| old maids