Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-11
, Silly Attack on the American Woman

original character In that country. 1t will be
French, Italian or German, according to the
ancestral influences Of the individual. 1t will
never be truly American.
The American woman aims to acquire all
the physical qualities of man. She boxes and
plays football witnessed football match in
which young women In short skirts and knick.
erbockers engaged In dangerous struggle
with young men, striking with their feet and
fists, struggling with their muscles and limbs
against the muscles and limbs Of the men in
an equal encounter. Certainly I could not see
in these young women the feminine qualities
which have inspired poets IN all the ages of
the past. It seemed to me the shtpwreck of all
the gentle and charming graces, the dawn OF
an entirely masculine humanity, IL which the
power Of maternity must fade away the
powers of the two sexes become equallzed.
The American women are noted for their
extravaganza. Many women among the 1,400
millionlires Of New York spend annually as
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 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."
New York Is a modern Babel which combines
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, seems like one of those
images which the ancients erected upon the
mysterious pathway which might lead to for
tune death.
The millionaires Of the 400" who meet at
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 fashioning monstrously
original entertainments. They have had baby
Dances In which everybody wore baby clothing
with bibs and rattles; bathing dinners, in which
everybody wore bathing suits; monkey dinners,
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 poodes have their tailor, their ocu-
list, their doctor, their dentist, their jeweler,
their furrier, their tub. their perfumed hand
kerchiefs, 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
1ewelry store where she was about to spend
5000 for a jeweled dog collar. who would econo-
miZe 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 the
richer they are the worse they are in this re-
spect. There was q prominent New York
woman. Madame H. c.. who allowed