Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-03
DLASCO IBANEZ has been blurbing out
- some Beatrix Fairfax information to the

DLASCO IBANEZ has been blurbing out
- some Beatrix Fairfax information to the
men of Philadelphia.
AS a writer Of fiction, and famous one,
| he Is sort of confessor of the sex.
American women in Paris have revealed
| their souls to him.
They are tired Of worshipful American
They would like for change to be 'domi-
| mated"
They desire from their lovers and hus-
| bands a little "cave man stuff. ~
But does the American woman tell the
| truth in Paris, even when sitting for full
length portrait in the next book of so dis
| tinguished a novelist as Senor 1banez!
Does she want to be painted, warts and
| all, like Cromwell?
Or does she want to pose her prettiest and
show n soul that will make good reading in
the coming fiction?
| A ND even if she is not thinking of COM
| n ing study of "the American woman" in
an international novel by the master, isn't
she aware that in Paris at least the Ameri-
can husband is bit provincial?
| European capital is great place TO
make you feel countrifed.
! The American husband over there has a
sense that he owes life an apology.
lie is a little deprecatory of the American
woman, just as Senior lbanez reports the
American woman to be of her husband.
To prove himself above narrow preju-
dices, he tells more than one Parisienne that
the women home are a little dull, with their
coldness, their Puritansm, their looking Mt
mama for fear there's harm in what he or
she or it or they are at
| Before YOU begin to "treat 'em rough" "
following this distinguished advice, it will be
well to discount a little what American
women, self conscious in the least provincial
capital of the world tell to a distinguished
European novelist, who may be about to
write great romance portraying the Ameri-
can woman.
DUT why should Senior Ibanez commend
- us to the cave man?
That Is very we'll in an advice to lovers
! column, but father confessor of the sex, aa
every great writer of fiction should be, should
know better.
Was the cave man the dominant male?
Back in his time, or not far from 1t, oc-
Cured the "matriarchal age" of the human
race, when women dominated in the home
| as the female bees do in hive.
The cave man was doubtless a fine hairy
brute, but the cave woman was q fit mate
for him, capable of giving back as good as
she got.
Probably there was moro equality between
the sexes in the cave age than at any time
since.
That was the early youth of the race, and
in early youth the sexes are equal.
BOYS are not conscious that girls are, as
Meredith called them, precious fragilities.'
And neither are the girls at that age
That consciousness Is a'refnement of later
years.
The cave man, when he went out to per
suade the cave woman to wed, doubtless did
not think of her as precious fragility.
And neither she was.
q q q
WE ARE nearer the cave man stage In
w America than are Senior Ibanez's com
patriots in Europe.
Ibanez seems to recognize that, In spite OF
his advice.
THE conditions under which American
men live and labor" he said, "are almost
the same as those that prevailed in the pre
historic era. The man went out to chase the
boar and other animals for food while tn,
woman stayed at home minding the kitchen
and the children" .'..
We are a youthful people, and one of In,
reasons why the Spanish novelist finds oul