Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-12

she will slop around in snow and
sleet, in paper soled pump and a
thin silk stocking, though she is per-
fectly aware that she is defying
death every time she does 1t. Let
her have a pretty neck and shoulders
and cheH exhibit them in public
with no other protection than a pearl
necklace, no matter how cold the
weather is or how draughty the the
alter or restaurant, nor what chance
she takes on pneumonia every time
she does 1t.
And finally, it's woman's vanity
that makes her lie about her age
and pretend to be ten or twenty
years younger than she is, and paint
roses on her cheeks after those put
there by nature have faded, and dye
her hair, and act kittenish after she
is old enough to be a grandmother.
And it's vanity that makes woman
put a higher value on looks than on
any other quality In the world. 1here
isn't woman alive who, If given
her choice between beauty and
brains, wouldn't take beauty without
even stopping to think. It's her one
best bet. Whereas men put 1nteili-
gence before looks and devote more
time to everything else in the world
than they do to their personal ap'
peafance. You dSnC see any Beauty
Shops run for men. They are all
for women. -. ..-.... ..
"Yes," added the man triumphant
ly, "the preacher was right. All is
vanity, and vanity's other name is
woman"
There is much in what you say,
replied the woman, "but the fact that
woman deyotes so much time and
thought and money to her appearance
while man deyotes little to his,
shows that man is vainer than wom'
an, because it proves that man thinks
that he is such a masterpiece as nat
IRE turned him out that he does no;
need any dressing up or improving,
whereas woman recognizes that she
is a poor inferior creature who must
resort to every art Of camouflage II
she is to present an attractive ap'
pearance. ....E p.
Instead of mans clothes being an
illustration Of mans lack of vanity,
they are a triumph of vanity. Look
at him. A lot of tubular garments
about as ornamental as sections OF
stove pipe or concrete water mains.
Surely men as sex would make
some effort to make their raiment
easier on the eyes unless they were
convinced that every mothers son
of them was an Adonis who didn't
need any help from his clothes TO
make him living picture. .-
'tOf course, women spend lot OF
time primping and dolling them
selves up, not because they are vain,
but because they have such a poor
opinion of themselves that they know
they must put their best foot fore
most if they are to please men and
catch the particular man that they
have their eyes on for husbands. But
a man is so vain that he thinks that
he is good enough for any woman
tut as he is, and that she Will fall
in love with him no matter how he
looks or how little trouble he takes
to please her. It takes man ten
minutes to get ready to go to see
his best girl, but she spent two hours
adjoining herself to receive him, and
that's about the ratio between man
and woman's vanity. -.-
,"And as for the old women who
have cut the sugar out of their morn
ing coffee and are solemnly rolling
cover in agony on the bedroom floor
to try to get thin and chicken-like,
why, that settles the question or
which sex is the vainer beyond all
further argument. For every one OF
these fat, middle aged women is go.
ing through the tortures Of the In
quisition to !Ey to regain her lost
youth, not because she bankers to
have people rubber at her IN the
street and mistake her for living
picture, but because she sees her
self merciiessly as she is, stout, and
grizzle-headed, and physically I'M
attractive, and she is in mortal fear
of losing her husbands love. She Is
that humble minded. ..-.. .
But the man who has also grown
fat and bald-headed and tubby is
so tined with complaCency that it
never even occurs to him that he
might be unattractiye in his wife's
eyes and that. she might cease to
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