Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-26
Butterflies and Girls
Who Count
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

II am a vesterner, but have lived IN
New York for some time and through
conversation with young married men Of
thta city | have formed the opinion that
the main object in life of New York girls
is to have what they call good time.
no matter what the cost to their moral
or financial standing.
1T is a common sight TO see young
married women going off in the evening
with friends of 'hubby'-who is working
overtime that ne may have more money
TO spend on a wife who he thinks loves
him. And there are other young men
and their number is legion-who would he
only too glad and willing to get married
and have the means to do so-but they
are afraid to take a chance after they
see other failures" writes Frank NJ
And 1 am sorry to confess that there
is some truth in what he says. But he
states only one side OF many faceted
case.
There are many women and girls who
live only to enjoy, and enjoy only the
fevered pleasures of expensive artificial
excitement There are girls who ave
vampire attitude of taking all of devotion,
OF consideration. and OF sacrifice as fit
and paid we'll If they favor their victim
with a smile But to every such woman
there are half dozen. at the very small
est estimate, who are splendid, normal
women with the fine instincts of home
making, motherhood and self-sacrifice
pulsing in all their being.
Unfortunately this quiet average
woman is passed over by the pleasure
I,.at nf ans
modern days in his dazzling admiration
or denunciation of the more brilliant lily
of-the-field woman who tolls uot-nor
spins. The gorgeous array and witching
wiles of the woman Of whom he disap-
proves blinds the average mans eyes
to the presence of her quieter sisters.
who are like shadows Of evening and
merge into the atmosphere, while the
more brilliant and dashing-if unscrupu-
lous-woman is in the binding glare of
the white lights"
Unfortunately the brilliant plumage
that a bird wears when he would a-woo-
ing go is paraleled in the human race
by the gold that a wooer offers his lady
love in order that she may dazzle all
eyes after marriage, even as she has
won a wooer by the brilliant plumage
that contrasts so strangely with my
ladybird's quiet, demure coloring.
The girl of today is making a sad
blunder when she decks herself in gay
clothes and works out her destiny in
dancing and singing and rushing about
to one place of amusement after another
with any available cavalier, be he some
one elses husband or be she some one
else's wife.
sadder blunder when he supposes that
these silly little butterflies with draggled
wings or vampires with beating pennons
compose the sum total of the feminine
world
There are countless splendid girls-at
home, in offices, in stores and on the
stage itself-girls who are forced to earn
their own living and who must look well,
80 that the men to whom they apply for
positions will give them a chance to
prove their ability. And what do you
think these girls long for most in all the
world? A home. A home and the pro-
tecting care of a man who will love them
kindly and tenderly and so sincerely that
they won't feel they must keep them
selves up-to-date and beautiful and slim =
ulating i'm order to hold his jaded fancy.
Just stop looking at the~g gay birds of
plumage who flutter about you in the
artificial light of high powered burners.
Turn to the quiet places and you will sea
countless doves and wre,hi and nightin-
gales who have sweetness and meekness
and fidelity and ability TO work and help
you make a nest
There are a lot OF butterfly and dancing
men in the world-ahd there are Williams
and thieves and crooks and scoundrels
and homebreakers and all the motley
crew, but no woman ever denounced the
whole masculine sex therefor.