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

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 tho woman usually alleges
cruel and inhuman treatment" This treat.
ment Is anything that does not please her In
one case read about, the wife considered it in.
human for her husband to smoke his pipe. An
American judge and jury never give a verdict
against pretty woman. They are completely
terrorized by women.
To judge by the American papers we might
suppose that the foreign nobleman is always
hunting the American heiress. Would ,t not be-
more reasonable to say that the American girl
hunts the foreign nobleman? Let Il duke or q
marquis or count arrive in the United States
with n certain reputation for elegance or a
romantic past and there is mad surgIng
among the young milllonairesses. They resort
to ruses worthy Of d 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 ac-
customed to every flattery, to every liberty to
every right, to every indulgence, within the
borders OF matrimonial propriety-and even be-
yond It, Because she is accustomed to rule as
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 extrayar
gances.
Physically the American woman Is nns
type OF humanity. She IS very often pretty.
stiii more often handsome. but OF aspect
naughty. cold and without grace She attract.
but does not hold Her gait ia violent her
bust fiat. 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.
one 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
L. Stanley Hall. OF Clark University, 'of
feminine sex without feminine qualities"
In her domestic affairs the American woman
ls fussy without having any conference OF
ideas She Is always looking for change like
a bird hopping from branch to branch. Al.
ways hungry for new sensations, she Is deter.
mined to experience them, matter what
the cost She Is like a piece OF mechanism
which can never keep STILL She is audacious.
persever1ng. courageous, never discouraged,
and so exactng that she is never satisfied;
despotic, Imperative. aggressive and capable
under all circumstances of taking care OF
herself as she expresses 1t.
Love with her is means OF getting some.
thing. Sentiment enters into IT little or not at
a very deceptive illusion OF affection. Cold
and Indifferent, she does not know how to hold
the man who has asked her heart while giving
his own.
She shows a mad prodlgality 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 both knees TO labor
Tor her all his life for her benefit alone She
mas freed herself from all the bonds OF family
ties which are obstacle to her progress In
Hie Her motto is, Every woman for herself"