The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-17

hitrary ideals OF beauty. II they did
not please they starved.
Now. You are wrong there, Char
lotte dear. They may have intended
TO please but they often failed. and
yet tho men handed ont the coffee
and doughnuts just the same. Where
IS the man with soul SO dead who
would stint the commissariat depart
n1ent merely because lie disa pproved
Of some Encouragement Of Geographi-
cal ideas He may have laughed in
an Irritating way as he observed the
map changing before his very eyes.
but Il never even occurred to him
10 limit the dietary scale. Men
strongly disapproved when women
decided to abolish their hips, although
what they did with them goodness
only knows, but there was no marked
increase in feminine destitution upon
that account. Meals were served Just
the same as before. and not even
single ice cream was abated. Mrs.
Gilman is distinctly unfair 10 or
sanized labor when she tries to make
us responsible for the astonishing re-
distribution of hills and valleys Of
which we have been the interested
but uninterferinG spectator. So far
from desiring those changes still less
demanding them. we have been filled
with profound amazement Al the skill
and agility with which they
have been accomplished. To
please men says Mrs. Gil
man, women have taken all
sorts of forms Yes. and men have
died and worms have eaten them. but
not for love Women have indeed
taken all sorts Of forms. but If they
intended to please men they have
lamentahly and hideously failed. Some
of these forms we have seen heaped
upon the bargain counters. and we
have doubtless even paid for them
unbeknownst There may be other
forms that men have never seen at
all except by their architectural re-
suits, although We may we'll doubt If
there is anything in this line that
may not be seen illustrated in the
Ladies' Home journal and with APP
propriate hygenic ecstasies. We have
eazed contemplatively at these same
illustrations in the street cars and
have thought unutterable things. Blu,
they have not pleased us. Far from
il. We have demonstrated and i'm
plored but fruitlessly. But it has
never occurred to us to diminish the
rations upon that account. And we
never will,
Last week man was brought be-
fore New York magistrate on the
charge of annoying a married woman
on a ferryboat. The married woman
said that she had been annoyed and
after her husband had committed the
customary assault and battery upon
the luCkless wretch he was given in
charge and subjected to the usual POI
lice treatment that need not he other
wise specified In court the aggrieved
lady said that 'all the men tried to
fiirt with her" and after some fur
Their evidence Of like kind the ac-
cused man was discharged and the
husband of the aggrieved beauty was
requested to pay fine for the assault
and battery.
A day or two after another Ran
was accused of embracing a woman
in subway car. A month ago he
would probably have been lynched on
the spot. but public opinion has
somewhat cooled since the worst
phases OF the needle-priek hysteria,
and so he was only given In charge
with speculations as to the date OF his
execution. When he was brought into
court he produced large number of
witnesses to character A number OF
persons. including the police, also tes-
tilted to the lady's character. although
not at her request. 80 he also was
discharged, although h will p%ohAbly
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