The evening world., 1915-10-16
the GREAT eEAuTY or VAS.
sAR's PAGEANT.

LATER | saw Vsasar's pageant, and
never have I seen a thing more lovely
The background OF trees and lake, the
spacious stage. with its setting OF
greensward. tho hill with the thou
sands OF genial spectators and the
sunshine pouring over all The girls
were tail. Respondent creatures with
free, gracious movements and pleas
ant voices. The Pageant OF Athena
showed the contributions OF women
20 life ana cndcavor through tho ages.
IL made me glad to see that among
all the preoccupation with life and It's
prosy problems Vassar women have
not lost sight OF the value OF beauty
and the capacity for Its fullest enjoy
ment. The campus itself. the build
ings and surroundings all combine to
develop this sense, and nobobdy
comes and goes from Vassar without
some. considerable education In aes-
thetics and in Joy.
Released from tho pressure OF the
problems OF living. OF wondering
where food and shelter 10 to come
from, these students have life as It
ought TO be for all-freedom and
beauty and games and comradeship
and competition that Is lifted from
the material plane to the mental ana
spiritual
kSAvS SUFFRAGE WILL CHANGE
I THE LINE OF THOUGHT.
thought: This is what hundreds
Of Americas colleges are doing for
thousands of Americas women every
year. A surginF, vitalizing element
is being introduced into American
national life. Why then, Is Is that II
affects that national life so slightly?
Why is 1t that our standards. politi-
cal. social and cultural are so little
| changed?
Scattered all over the country as
| they are. these women should be
wording wonders toward the en-
noblement of our national conscious
ness. why IL their influence 80 slen-
der? As l look about me, 1t seems
| that only in the realm OF dress and
| homes Is our task proportionately
| improved.
| Americas women are famous fol
| their chic and our homes Are model:
Of cleanliness and beauty of line and
color. But our politics, our cities, oui
industries, our theatres. our laws. oui
/ morals, our public activities! They
i are stin elementary, stili ugly, still
i chaotic, still inartistic, still antt-so'
| cial, still primitive. still disorganized
II What are our college women up to
Why In II that they determine public
standards so little and private stand
J ards 80 much? One explanation
!, know. Women are not used to think
ing along public lines. They do no
, know how TO incorporate their privat,
ideas into the body OF public thought
Suffrage, OF course. will change that
and the nation will be all the bette
for It, for At present much OF Thu
splendid intellectual material In goinI
10 waste.
But there must he some other ex
plantation. Some temperamental one
think. Two hundred Italian SUI
fragists have done about as much 10
! the cause of suffrage az all our thou
. sands In the United States.
Is our intellectual enthusiasm
! largely academic, a veneer, an nc
y quirement to be assumed or laid asid
. at will? Is II genuine? Is II pro
found? Does IT affect or galvapl 2
our conduct Or have we not the ca
7. paclty for profundity or emotions
:. depth? Intelligence without the me
y tive power Of emotion Is almost val
), ueless. And II emotional snaemia
the trouble with us in America, wha
il the cause OF Il, and the remedvs