Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-09
Woman and Success
BY MAX NoRDAU.


Woman Is in the happy position OF not
needing any instruction in the science OF
success. She IL endowed by nature with
all the knowledge that is required by
her in order to obtain success in life; and
the lesser arts that may not perhaps
have been born In her she acquires later
on entirely without assistance.
According to the prevailing arrange
ments in tho world by far the largest
number OF women confine their efforts
20 one form OF success-that OF pleasing
mon. In order 20 attain this end, all that
is required is that they be pretty, or
have something about them.
There are misguided minds who have
hit upon the infelicitous within of found
ing colleges for the higher education OF
women. In these the poor creatures are
taught drawing, drumming on the piano.
numbering foreign languages with an
absurd accent and confusing historical
dates-that IL to say. Just those very
! things that later on will make them oh
Jeots Of horror 20 the men.
The scheme OF such establishments
| commonly have originated In the brains
OF pining old maids or vindlctively dis
posed married crippies who are used to
being thrashod by their wives II dis
plays an absolute ignorance of the true
life aims Of women. The Orientals In
their primitive traditional sagacity re-
gard matters from far more rational
point Of view. Among them the girl
learns nothing beyond singing. dancing.
playing the lutte, telling stories. dyelng
her nails with henna and the edges OF
her eyelids with charcoal--that is To say.
tho arts that make her an object of de-
sire In the eyes Of men. which afford her
the opportunity OF displaying her charms
In the most favorable light and which
will fascinate her male partner in life In
permanently attaching him TO her.
Our poor girls of the west are In con-
sequence of the prevailing system OF edu-
cation artifloially prevented from gIvlng
way 10 their Instincts, though this would
promote their interests with much more
certainty than all the specialized and un-
spectacled teachers IN their institutions.
II IL only when they have left behind
them forever the absurd hardship OF
school life that they become able freely
to follow their natural impulses and de-
velop themselves as they were designed
10 do. Then Of their own accord they
acquire the art Of painting with rouge or
even of doing themselves up with rice
powder. Of wearing a bold style of cos
tune. OF walking, standing and sitting
in such q way that what gives otfenso IN
the cut OF their clothing becomes most
prominent: then Of their own accord
they attain TO the art OF playing with
their fans In the most expressive manner
OF causing their eyes TO roam In an In
viting manner. OF INDUCING In little airs
charming gestures. and sweet dainty
little pouts, OF giving to their voices the
delightful modulations of childish limo.
ccnce, youthful trickery and plquent liz
rorance
With such aids they are sure TO gSthe
about them. wherever they may appear
host OF admirers, TO secure dancing
partners, enthusiastic followers, hus-
band and all the reBt-in short 10 Obtain
everything that makes life fair or agree
able.
Married women WILL OF course. turn
up their noses at them and on superior
and nobler members OF the male seN
they will likewise produce repellent
rather than attractive effect. The lattci
Will feel that patches OF paint grease
flour and daubs of ali sorts are no NOR,
IT, their proper places on a woman's face
than. say on a velvet dress.
But what matters Il 20 woman il sh,
lE subject TO those criticisms? At tn,
hands OF her own sex she does not lool
for any kindly feeling. and even II sh,
received II 1t would mean nothing 20 her
And 50 far as her male critics are con
cerned, II would be to her In the hsghes
degree a matter OF indifference II som,
pedant did turn his back upon her Will
disapproval, so long as young gentlemen
OF the Jockey club fixed their eyeglasse
upon her IN token of appreciation. Sh
cannot possibly bring her nature an,
conduct up 10 the standard OF the maj
OF taste. The latter is a phoenix. Man.
women live and die without ever havini
fallen In with such a man.
II IL only the sleeping beauty in tn
wood OF the fairy tale that is SO for
tunate as to possess a knight who come
and releases her. In rea, life It woui
be folly TO reckon upon such a hero. an
any girl that buries herself behind
thorny hedge has every prospect OF be
ing left there. Woman. therefore. ex
lhlbits great shrewdness in seeking I
make herself agreeable to the mass O
men without needing the undiscoverabI
: phoenix.