Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-23
Damn Nonsense" Doughty
Doctor Particularizes.
Acquiring "Hallux Val
gus" Through Canticoes
Ignorant of Orthography of
Thrift. Another Count
in Indictment-Silk Stock
ings Versus Humanity
BY M'LISS

The American woman, according to
man who knows her better than, perhaps
she knows herself, is suffering from dan.
gerous disease.
ToEepeat the exact words of the experts
diagnosis, her trouble is called damn nom
sense" and it's aggravated by a germ, the
name of which cannot be found in any
medical treatise, but which is expressively
known as God help ing mess"
DR.. Richard II. Harte,' one of the most
fearless nterviewees to whom have ever
spoken, a man who knows women psyche
logically, physiologcally and pathological
ly-a large number of them compose the
clientele who are his patients--who has
ideas about them and isn't afraid to ex!
press them told me that the American
woman is in a sad state. She is practicing
an extravaganza that is nothing short of
criminal, he said and encouraging a self
indulgence that threatens to undermine her
character and cause the decadence of the
race.
STOP THE PIFFLE," HE SAYS
Let them stop this damn nonsense" he
said ferociously. land do some real think
ing, some rational thinking Let thea.
tear themselves away from the trivlalities
realization that the world is passing through
a very crucial a desperately serious period.
ION Fifth avenue the other day" he con-
tinued II saw some stockings In shop
window that cost $3.50. They were not
warm, they were not even beautiful, but
I know some women who will buy those
stockings.
Look at the women bundled up in hun
dreds Of dollars of unhealthy furs' - ne
pointed an excorating finger at my modest
black fox-"whle the women and children
In Belgium, Serbia and Poland are starving
for food. II every woman gave littie
something from her dress money allow
ance this situation could be relieved. There
are 100 000, 900 people in the United states.
One hundred million dollars spent in Bel
GUM, Serbia and Poland would do untold
good I do not say that every person
could give dollar, but things could De
SO proportioned that this sum, If each per-
son were willing to make very slight sacri-
flee, could easily be obtained. o.
But no the American woman dawdles
around In hotels drinking and dancing and
wearing extravagant clothes She does not
use her head. There are more God-helping
women in America than in any other iand'
Asked to expatiate and explain the God
helping" woman, Doctor Harte SAID she was
the type who the minute anything dis-
turbed the smoothness OF her existence
threw ner ndnuS UP S'S e'N' ''Nf' N--~
exclamation, "God help mel
.'The French woman" he continued rs
the fnest creature the Lord ever made.
She is the best housekeeper, the best wife,
the best mother. She can make dollar
go further than any other woman ENOUGH
food is thrown into the garbage can OF the
average American family TO feed we'll
to-do French household.
CAN'T SPELL THRIFT
."rhe American woman does not know
how to spell the word thrift much less
know it's meaning. She has little prohciehcy
In anything" Doctor Harte slammed a
nencil across his desk, shook his fist at his
feminine secretary, who seemed. used to his
trades, and then at me, and continued.
"She is asleep. She needs to be awakened
by something big, vital"
.Do Won mean by war;" interposed.
"rhere are worse things than war;" he
said savagely '"rhe present state Of mind
Of our American woman Is worse, but
sIncerely hope that she is not so far gone
that the nation would have to shed It's
blood to save her.
There is some good In her somewhere,
some stun that really counts, Dut shes
smothering it," he added more tamely.
.sThe American man is not entirely
bIameless. The American woman coddles
herself too much, fosters too much her
desire to be coddled, and the American
man aids her by assisting with the cod
ding. II we don't pull up pretty soon
10 the realisation that big things are
Kidding for our attention something Is
going to happen wont go 80 far as 70
say that we are already decaaent' put !
wiil ~ that were well on ths way q
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