The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-01

original character in that country II Vail be
french, Italian or German. according to the
never be truly American
a., nc american woman aims to acquire all
inc physical qualities of man. She boxes and
plays football. 1 witnessed a football match In
which young women in short skirts and kniok.
erbockers engaged in dangerous struggle
with young men, striking with their feet and
nsaS, slrussiing with their muscles and limbs
against the muscles and limbs OF the men in
an equal encounter Certainly could not sec
III tuese young women the feminine qualities
which have inspired poets In all the ages of
tue past IL seemed to me the shipwreck OF all
the gentle and charming graces, the dawn of
an entirely masculine humanity. in which the
power OF maternity must fade away the
powers OF the two sexes become equaliZed
The American women are noted for their
extravaganza. Many women among the 1.400
millionaires OF New York spend annually as
much as 100000 on their clothes. A dinner In
one OF the great hotels may cost as much as
100000, OF which $4,000 or $4,000 is for
flowers alone. The distinguished CLERGYMAN
the Rev. Madison c. Peters, said
Our rich women, who spend such fabulous
sums on clothing, in a community where twenty
per cent OF the population depend on charity
for their daily bread where ten per cent are
buried In the common burying ground, where
seventy thousand children 60 to school every
morning with empty stomachs, where sixty
thousand families are put out Of their tene-
ments every year because they cannot pay
their rent. are neither civilized nor Chris
tians.'
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the richest. the most luxurious. the most madly
extravagant, and the most suffering population
In the world. The Statue of Liberty enlighten.
Ing the world. erected at the threshold of this
American Babylon, like one Of those
images which the ancients erected upon the
mysterious pathway which might lead to for
tune or death
The mionaires OF the 400" who meet MT
Newport every Summer are not sufficiently
educated to find pleasure in conversation not
artistic enough to appreciate works of art not
sufficiently musical TO care for concerts They
torture their minds fashionng monstrously
dances, In which everybody wore baby clothing
with bibs and rattles; bathing dinners, in which
everybody wore bathing suits monkey dinners
dog dinners and donkey dinners; vegetable
dances, In which cucumbers danced with toma.
toes, etc. topsy-turvy dances, in which every.
body wore his or her clothes the wrong way
around and many others which l need not
mention.
The extravagances Of the American woman
extend to her dogs and animal pets. These
pampered poodcs have their tailor, their ocu.
list, their doctor, their dentist, their jeweler
their furrler, their tub, their perfumed hand
kerchefs, their maid and their valet
What psychologist shall analyze the brain OF
one OF these women, who would refuse a sou to
a beggar dying Of hunger in the doorway of a
1ewelry store where she was about to spend
$500 for jeweed dog collar. who would econo
mlze upon the food OF her servants and pay
$4,000 for dress she will wear only one even
ing?
Americans hate to pay their bills and tho
richer they are the worse they are In this re-
spcct There was a prominent New York
woman, Madame IL c.. who allowed