Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-01-16
NEW VOL. 48-No. 2.
q Want to Be Loved and Lied TO-"

81 Want to Be Loved and Lied TO-"
Blanche Bates. the famous actress who
has starred in a number OF popular plays
the past few years, has recently express
ed her sentiments in the following spirited
fashion:
want TO be an old-fashioned woman
believe in all the old fashioned ideals.
the old-fashioned virtues and the old
fashioned vices.
| do not want man to talk politics or
the high cost OF living to me. want him
to tell me that my eyes are the brightest.
my lips are the reddest, and that | am
the dearest, most lovable woman in the
world.
have grown very tired OF all these
equal rights and single standards for men
and women. want the old-fashioned
feminine rights TO be taken care OF as a
husband must care for you, TO be loved
and 10 be lied TO in the way that all lovers
lie
Nature, you know, meant women for
just one thing; and as you bear children
or as you are sterile you are worthy
product or a cumberer OF the earth.
want 10 be able 10 wear the mid-Vic-
toriau costumes, for am so tired Of ev-
erlastingly denying myself chocolate
creams and other dainties for lear that !
will grow too fat 10 be able 10 get into my
latest hipless gown without shoe horn.
really want 10 wear my own hair, in
stead OF paying exorbitant pnces tor that
which belongs 10 some one else.
II women only knew IL, how much
easier and pleasanter il would be for them
to live as our grandmothers lived. accept
ing placidly instead OF hitting their heads
against a stone wall OF feminine tradition
and mans ideals OF what woman should
be lfor men still have those ideals, you
know and eyerlastingly try to change
The inherited ideas OF their lords and mas
terS.
How perfectly delightful il would be 10
spend a whole afternoon stitching cross
stitch moss roses upon pair OF slippers
for the man yod love. while all the while
you remembered how he looked when he
raise the glass 10 his lips the night before
and passionately mumured, Drink TO
me Only with thine eyes"
Does ever any one see a man stand
bareheaded upon the street any more
while he talks TO womsn1
cannot understand why women should
want to be on an equal footing with men
when they can be placed upon pedestals
and worshipped.
do not want 10 eat in restaurants,
where the woman across from me drinks
cocktail and bemoans the facts that IN
this country she is permitted to smoke Ia
only one hotel.
! want 10 sit down 10 my own table, In
a house which has garden, a barn and
chicken coop and cows and horses and
dogs, and plenty Of children running about
with their mouths covered with berry
stains which proclaim that they have yis-
tied wild berry patch in the meadow.
want TO eat the old-iashioned foods,
cooked without French sauce.
And would like TO enjoy The old
fashioned neighbors-ihe kind that used
TO come in when one OF the children was
sick and bring dish OF chicken broth or
cruel, who sat up with you all night wheu
you were mourning your dead. who sens
in towering wedding cake when your
oldest daughter was married.
We are more or less frauds when we
say we want to be comrades. friends
fellow workers and equal suiiragists with
men. We want nothing OF the kind we
just want TO be taken care of, and shell
tered and petted, and made comfortable.