South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-01
WOMEN IN THE
LATEST BOOKS
Fiction of Today Draws inter-
eSting Pen Pictures of Vari-
GUS Types of Altered and Al
tering Womanhood.

Judge Arthur Randall, a young wild
over, tells his sister what he thinks
of Catherine Tyson. Can you mag
Inc, sally, that truly elegant looking
young girl doing anything worth do
ing? She's the most relaxed individ-
ual ever saw. Just look at her
repose in every muscle; absolute re-
pose"
That's her charm, Arthur; the
charm that stamps her for what she
so pre-eminently is-a gentlewOman."
Exactly; the elimination of gener-
ations of cultivation; the ripe fruit
followed by the trees stagnatiOn; the
beautiful autumn hue preceding de-
cay"
What nonsense you talk. dear."
shes worse than her futile mother!
Your friend Amy, I remember, was
never known to finish anything she'd
begun, from a piece Of embroidery to
a magazine story-and had a way of
going about dropping things-her
sewing, her magazines, her jewelry,
any old thing!-but this daughter of
hers, ! surmise, would not go so far
as TO begin anything!"1From The
Parasite" by Helen R~eimensnyder
Martin.
knowing the Cost of LaceS.
Bride, the heroine, spends a fort
night at Angel Meadow, an over
crowded slum of a provincial city.
he and her hostess, Lady Rewley, dis
cuss the people OF the slums.
Lady Rewley: IF they were not
employed we should have civil war,
anarchy. They're no better than bar
bariansi"
Bride: "Barbarians!-and u own
flesh and blood.
You're getting sentimental, Bride.
Living in Angel Meadow isn't good
for you. My lear girl, where's your
sense Of proportion? The work must
be done and somebody must do it
You wouldn't suggest that I put on
! clogs and wrap a shawl over my head
and go into a mill?"
Il believe it would do you an i'm
mense amount of good"
The words were said with an apol-
ogetic laugh.
"Bride!" said Lady Rewley, some
what taken aback.
Yes, l should like every woman to
know at what cost her muslins n
laces have been manufactured. We
take these things as our right, where
as they are a gift of flesh n blood,
non the less real because bestowed
cOmpulsOrily."
"-Compulsorily! No woman need
make shirts unless she wants to-"
yet that is not quite true. is it?
That they are free to work as they
please. If they don't make shirts and
go into a mill their alternative IS
starvation"
Bride bent upon Elizabeth a quiet,
penetrating gaze.
II think" she said, that life is
meant to be beautiful, beautiful not
for you and me only, but beautiful for
all of us."-FrOm The Soul Of I'm
rest" by Emily Jenkinson.
The Advice TO Brides.
(Ching-li, as a merchant, goes with
his wares to Miss Mei's door,
Come! Open"
But even the old woman is out.
She went to market
$50 much the better, Miss Mel; you
can choose just what you want for
your trOusseau. What do you care for
the opinions of others. 1t has been
my obserVatiOn"-Ching-li laughed to
himself-"that brides get more useless
advice than any other class of peO-
ple".-From The Lady Elect" by
Norman Hinsdale Pitman.
Easy TO, Understand.
(Anthony Merrilees To his nephew.)
Here's a piece of inside informa-
ton, lear boy . > > The difficult
thing to understand about women is
that there's nothing TO understand.
Once master this fact and you've got
the key to n Of the most provoking
mysteries of life. A woman thinks
with her heart, a man with his brain.
a woman is ruled by her emotions, a
man by his reason. ont fall into the
common mistake of supposing that
her emotions owe some intricate
and complex mental state, because it's
odds IN hat they don't, and if you
start probing YOU will merely turn the
edge of our dissecting knife."-From
"Uncle's Advice, by William Hewlett.