The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-07-31
WOMAN FIGHT FOR man
CAUSE OF NEAR NUDITY
BY James Douglas i'm Sunday Express

BY James Douglas I'm Sunday Express
London, July 26.-Whst Is the
meaning of the riot of nudity into
which the world of womanhood has
plunged SO frantically? Here / touch
a very dangerous subject-woman.
Nearly everybody who touches her
burns his fingers. After thousands
of years man knows very little about
this battling and elusive creature. and
what he thinks he knows is invariab-
ly wrong.
The war has profoundly disturbed
the feminine mind. Many millions
of young males have been slaught-
cred, mutilated or deranged. There
is a world shortage of males. The
strange herd-soul of woman, moving
in the mass, has taken fright at the
sentence of celibacy which has been
passed upon her. There are not
enough men to go around. Before
the war the rivalry of women was
acute. To-day 1t is frenzied. In
stinctively the herd-soul of woman Is
doubling it's allurements, trebling its
wiIes, q~uadrupling its bats.
1t has cast modesty to the winds.
1t has abandoned all its reserves and
%reticences. All is fair in love and
war, and the herd-soul of woman Is
resorting t the most audacious de-
vices in order to captivate and cap
tura tho surviving maIea
The vogue of the jazz dance is n
symptom of this frenzy. The violent
outbursts of vehement colors in fem
mime raiment is another. The hys-
terical eccentricity of feminine attire
is another. But the most alarming
symptom is the absolutely brazen dis
play Of feminine charms. | have al
ways suspected hat man is the shy
sex and that woman is the shameless
sex. but now | know it. In pure
or impure-effrontery women to-day
are the equals, II not the superiors. Of
the women of any epoch.
The growth of feminine shameless
ness has been so gradual that we
have become Injured to It. We can
hardly remember the days before the
war when decency was still practised
in the public theatre and the public
restaurant by respectable women. 1t
is not easy to recall the era of the
yelled calf.
But the climax in effrontery Is the
vogue of the bare back. The other
night at a theatre the bare backs in
the stalls suggested that the stage
had ceased to compete with society.
A man said to me that he felt inclined
I o go to the theatre in future armed
with a rubber stamp. Before him
sat a woman with nothing on her
back, which was enamelled with some
pink liquid. 81 should like" he said,
ito brand her in red with the words
wet paint"
1t is not pleasing to see a matron
of 40 or SO summers with dyed hair.
rouged lips. painted cheeks, black
ened eyelids and eyelashes, brandish-
ing her adipose back at a disguised
crowd.
Worse still is the abominable i'm
modesty of the young girls who ape
the manners, IL not the morals. OF
the courtesan. The age of childhood
seems to have passed. Girls are
grown up at IL, blase at 13, heartless
at IA. birds of prey at Is, cynics at
16 and sour at II.
1t is the fault of the mothers. They
no longer guide and restrain the
pleasure loving girls. They allow
her to rub of the bloom of youth in
dubious resorts with doubtful com
panions.
And the tide of corruption flows
more and more strongly every day.
The decadent and degenerate poisons
of Paris infect our fashions. Some
of the Paris theatres are now unfit to
be described. Outrages upon taste
and propriety are permitted which
are incredible. Wit has been slain
by vulgarity. No newspaper-not
even a French newspaper-would
dare to describe the things which are
done on the Paris stage.
The remedy is the lash of public
opinion. 1t ought to be applied with
out delay.