The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-18
GIRL IS PRODUCT
OF MEMS DEMAND
Anxious to Be and Do
What Meets With Pop
ular Approval
NN MARGEkY KEN.

NEW YORK, Jan. l7.---Stitrod to
speech by the faults OF what he
terms the synthetic woman" Josef
Avis U.atin for "bird'D hastens to
impart To the universe what he, him
self--and also rsonaIly---thinks OF
the girls we see all about US these
days.
Woman. he believes. IL made up OF
many different elements infused into
one strange new type OF being. MIR.
Avis eNhorts bachelors to evcrlast- =
ing freedom unless "wastrel" woman
changes her ways.
Bachelors" he pleads from his
California home In san Diego, stand
by and don't weaken! when the
women find that the men will not
come to them they will go To the
men. I am still singing the Battle
Cry of Freedom.
"a man does not want an animated
grease paint portrait walking around
with him. Look for the ones that
do not paint--thcy are ns scarce as
roses at the North Pole.
Coax one of these dainty. demure
pets under IA green light and you Will
see that the layers Of rogue jut out
like the CorniCes OF "A building.
Motives Are Misunderstood.
For these and other soaring COM
ments, Josef Avis has received sting
Ing rebukcs and retorts. Many men
have gone NO far AZ to hint that II
Mr.. Avis does not adpim tho modern
girl HIS middle name is 'rara."
But aside from the exaggeration
which characterized his statements,
there IL much to he seriously con-
sidered in what the Californian says.
The average male, unaesthetic and
not analytic. respopds quicker TO the
carmine call of n PARTED cheek than
10 the less strident appeal OF the face
gone prcmaturcly gray from life In
crowded cities.
"Synthetic women" are the product
Of a demand, according to Miss Helen
! p Mccormick, assistant district at
torney of Kings county. The opinion
| OF Miss Mccormick is of particular
value in this discussion. for she oc-
| cupies a unique position. Officially.
she may Judge the follies OF women
and also man, since those In trouble
and turmoil come before her In
ceaseless parade. Privately, she IN
able to understand the girls point
OF view on such a question berause
she is an exceedingly comcly young
woman herself.
Miss Mccormick Opinion.
"Thc rouged girl is the product OF
n demand" says Miss Mccormick,
and demure girls find that unless
their. attractions are made equally
glaring they may he overlooked by
men in the quest for wives.
"To marry IN the natural ambition
of every normal girl. II IL almost
necessity in order to vindicate her
existence. That being the case. she
feels she must conform to the rules
OF the game.
at isn't the immoral or the bar
barous instinct in "a girl as much al
a misguided idea of what the ma
jority of men seek In women.
III men want the quiet. demurc
unpainted girl. why don't they take
her. pay her attention and marry
her?
synthetic women. made up OF o
number OF strange elements, are thf
ones mon often marry After mnr-
riage why, az husbands and supposed
masters OF their homes, don't they
exercise what authority and oppor'
Itunity they possess to subdue these
glaring attractions and change these
harmful characteristics?
"Instead of doing that they simply
bask in the glory Of this dazzline
creature that is theirs. They seldom
demand that she give up the rouge
not and eyebrow pencil.
"Clcopatra, as we understand hei
vt,es today, was rot a beauty. bu'
n p,ain woman who understood the
art of makeup.
Pluckcd Eyebrows Old story.
The practice is an old one
Plucxcd eyebrows are nothing new
In Chaucer's time women ala the
same thing. In The Canterbury
Tales we read in the knights Ta,e
about a lovely heroine that inc
author praises for her fine eyebrows
nlucked out to thin line.
"The synthetic woman Is as ola az
history and | believe that the gir' &c
much condemned today IL not moo
ern girl. but survival Of an old
ltype. There always have been won
en- who appeal thus to the imagine
tion OF men. Home training may IL
time. overcome young mems suscep
t,bility TO such influences. however