El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-05
Bv Anita Stewart.

! Copyright. 1915, international News Service
THEY say that every woman in the
world wishes she were man. Nc
- doubt this is true, because this is
a mans world, and everything that is
best and most desirable in it goes to
men.
But as long as we are girls. and not
boys, let's play the game of life from
the feminine standpoint, for, in my
opinion, no girl ever makes so big a
mistake as the one who tries to make
an imitation man of herself
You know the type I mean-the girls
who go staggering around with their
hands in their pockets, dressed in tailor
made clothes as near like their brothers
as they can get them. who smoke
cigarets in public places, who scorn to
powder their noses, who tell off-colored
stories, and swear and make you blush
for your sex when you look at them
For it's a funny thing that when
woman tries to act like a man she never
acts like a gentleman
The imitation man-girl is never sue
cess socially other girls don't like her
because she affects not to be interested
in any of the things they like. Host
esses don't like her because they don't
know what to do with her. She doesn't
fit in anywhere because she's neither
fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
And men don't like her. because no man
wants to make love to a girl who looks
like an understudy of his kid brother.
And the mannish girl is not a success
in business. OF course, we do read
about women steeplejacks. and women
longshoremen. and women blacksmith,
but they ere exploited simply as freaks
not for the superlative good quality Of
the work that they turn out
Capitalize Your Femininity.
Therefore. I am very sure, girls. that
we succeed best when we capitalize our
femininity, and do wOmen's work in
woman's way. If you will look about
YOU at the women who have made
money and names for themselves, you
will see that almost every one of them
has been following some distinctly
feminine occupation. and that she
dresses like a woman and does her
work in a womanlike manner.
In reality it is this feminine touch
that makes a woman's work valuable,
and she throws her best asset away
when she tries to do things like a man.
It's because women know what other
women want that makes them valuable
as buyers in dry goods stores.
It's because any little girl reporter
knows intuitively more about why a
woman acts in certain way than all
the men psychologists could figure out
in 40 years that women are employed in
The other day. in speaking to the
freshman class at the New York Medi-
cal college and hospital for women. DR.. !
Cornelia C. Brandt impressed this point
on the girls who are studying to be doc
tors. She said people who employ a I
woman physician employ her because [
she is woman and they want woman
" qualities, the womanly sympathy, the |
feminine lightness Of touch.
ITO compete with men. you must not !
only have a knowledge and skill equal /
to men, but you must cultivate certain |
qualities which belong to women. Those |
who prefer the masculine personality /
will employ man doctor. You cannot |
hope to appeal to this class by aping |
masculine manners or dress"
That's the case in a nutshell. Be- |
ing women we succeed best as women,