Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-11

herself to be sued for every bill The legal
proceedings amused her.
American women think too much about
beauty and do not learn how to love. In bring
ing divorce suit the woman usually alleges
"cruel and inhuman treatment" This treat
ment Is anything that does not please her. In
one case 1 read about, the wife considered 1t In
human for her husband to smoke his pipe An
American judge and jury never give verdict
against a pretty woman. They are completely
terrorized by women.
To Judge by the American papers We might
suppose that the foreign nobeman Is always
hunting the American heiress Would 1t not be
more reasonable to say that the American girl
hunts the foreign nobeman? Let duke or
marquis or count arrive in the United States
with a certain reputation for elegance or
romantic past and there is mad surg1ng
among the young mliona1resses. They resort
to ruses worthy Of a red Indian to meet him
and entrap him.
Why do so many marriages between foreign
noblemen and American women turn out un-
happily? Because the American girl is too &C
custQmed to every flattery, to every liberty. to
every right to every indulgence, within the
borders Of matrimonial propriety-and even be-
yond 1t. Because she Is accustomed to rule as
a despot. She cannot accustom herself to the
family equality Of Europe, to the community OF
life and interests, to life Of tranquility in
social atmosphere that permits few extrava-
gances
Physically the American woman Is a fine
still more often handsome, but OF aspect
naughty. cold and without grace. She attracts
but does not hold. Her gait Is violent, her
bust fat her head thrown back in an attitude
Of defiance. Her hurried step conceals many
of her faults.
In her moral qualities the American woman
is different from all other women In the
world. She can be everything but woman
She is hybrid creature with many masculine
qualities and very few feminine ones. She Is
neither lover, nor wife, nor mother I'VE are
witnessing the development" says President
G. Stanley Hall, Of Clark University, "of
feminine sex without feminine qualities"
In her domestic affairs the American woman
Is fussy without having any conference OF
ideas. She is always looking for change. like
bird hopping from branch to branch. AL
ways hungry for new sensations, she Is deter
mined to experience them, no matter what
the cost She is like piece Of mechanism
which can never keep still. She is audacious
persevering courageous, never discouraged
and so exacting that she Is never satisfied;
despotic, imperative. aggressive and capable
under all circumstances Of taking care OF
herself" she expresses it.
Love with her is means OF getting some
thing. Sentiment enters into 1t little or not at
all. She overfows with words and can create
and Indifferent, she does not know how to hold
the man who has asked her heart while giving
his own.
She shows a mad prodigality in the salts
faction Of her vanity and her desire for pleas
ure, but is miser in everything that does not
bring her an immediate benefit. Destitute OF
consideration for man, she believes that he
only exists to serve her on both knees to labor
for her all his life for her benefit alone. She
has freed herself from all the bonds of family
ties which are an obstacle to her progress In
life. Her motto Is Every woman for herself"