The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
Writer Thinks They Differ From Every Other Smart
Set in the World for They Live in the Glass
House of Journalism

absolute equality with man I'm his pleas.
ures' ms crimes, his sports and his
PRIV i'ege of making All ass Of himself or
any other Kind Of beast he p;cuscs.
iou may travel over forty degrees of
,a'i'"uc IN Europe without seeing the
me except among the criminal classes
Oh the great cities and q few scaports
like Spczzia.
III the western States women went
at the work of their liberation another
way lhey logan at the top. What
inc wei bred woman of Wyoming. for
example wanted was the right to share
III the making and administering Of the
avs; she has MOI come yet to the New
tork womans ambition To ruft,e it
IKE man and bad MANN the
uanc" nails Of the underworld. 1t is, I
I pclioVe only the New York woman who
taxes her equality that way. And she
Is the woman -nine out of ten Of her
VINO doesn't want to vote" 1t isn't
smart II isn't being done this season
even in London It's gone ont.
hut the women OF the people"
IN Now York there are no women OF
inc people. Bar few women who
write, paint, nurse scrub out office
buildings ar teach higher mathematics.
All the women of New York are heart
broken and heart breaking limitations of
the smart set. II you happen to be in
the streets before o'clock in the morn.
ing you Will see them going to work in
SHOPS ana stores and factories-thc most
amazing. sad sight in all the world.
lhcir little curcasses are clad in scant,
slit, fashionable looking gowns: they
wear high hccled shoes they display
their cold little legs In cheap bright
stockings Of imitation silk: on their
shoulders they pile the skins Of cats:
lank gr"en-eyed feathers nod from their
poor tawdry hats So they prome-
made their little empty stomachs
through tho winter streets to their shops
Of daily toll. Ridiculous? 1t is at once
ridiculous and pathetic. Seen n. the
distance this shop girl might be any one
Of the younger set" From heel to head
she is dressed IN poor. cheap imitation
OF the smart set She is a parody of all
its fads OF dress and fashion; and II It
is really the smart thing to chew the
end Of ones corset string when one is
tangoinS or hestating, you may be sure
tho shop girl will chew the end OF her
corset string like the rest Of us girls
And that is the truth.
The women Of the people In New York
are bitter bitter parody of the pretty
perfumed. Drawing women who are
known in the newspapers as the smart
set. And going about the streets you
hunger for the sight OF little midi
. nctte," hatless, black skirted. "a frank
little working woman, or Il red faced
applewoman in honest wooden shoes. or
any kind Of "A woman who is not trying
to be something she is not and never
can be.
The average New Yorker Is like every
, other decent and domesticated Ameri-
can. lie Is house broken and trained
, To carry the market basket He Is
quite willing that woman should have
her own way. He is married man
and he likes IL; he is used to the
pleasant tranquility Of methodzed
! oppression. Possibly he might pre-
fer Of an evening To sit by his steam
radiator in his six by five drawing room
and be talked TO, but so long as the
! women want to kick and dip in the
| dance houses he Will lead them to it,