Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-03
+Woman,s Life, and Love
BY wINiFRED HARPER COOLEY

BY wINIFRED HARPER COOLE,

adays, girls have sororities and lunch
cons and banquets and picnics, and in
the camps, summers. they are scouts
and campfire maidens, and swim and
row and paddle. And a couple save up
money and take a trip all over Europe
alone why, almost every kind
Of fun and recreation in the world now
can be INDUCED in by women alone:
can those things are nice to fill in
uuoth the showgirl. Maybe rich
women like TO have luncheon and bridge
at the swell hotels during the day
while their husbands arc shaving in
Wall street, but all the time they are
visiting beauty parlors, having their
faces fitted. or dolling up, waiting for
the real life which begins when the
electric lights are turned on
Dinner parties and theatres and
after opera suppers and dances, where
the men show up in their open face
sults-those are the life, believe me
Yes. and | guess it's about the
same down in the poor districts where
the factory girls toll all day, and
snatch odd moments to make a lace
shirtwaist to wear to dance hall,
where their Bowery tough takes them:
They have not much real pleasure until
TIE man COllltS vi lhN c'N"N'
"You people are scardalous reac-
tionarics," cried the feminist. Il be-
long to several professional women s
clubs which have evening dinners and
mover hnye | seen more joy and mirth.
a more helpful and comradely spirit.
Sometimes j have gone there when
was disgusted with life, or bowed down
nv persona worries, or had had "A
quarrel with some man. Invariably,
the contact with bright, normal. self
respecting and self supporting. women
who were mutually interested IN the
big things, would cheer mo hugely. !
am nroTd of my fellow women and
their progress and their achievements
and their new independence, ana L
think we get along quite nicely with
$50 are We all proud, but II is not
natural To throw over the poor, dear
males entirely. 1t Is bred in the bone
70 dress for them, and make ourselves
agreeable, and IL that Is survival OF
the mating instinct, what or II! some
women just live for hirtatlonS' ana
some are sentimental. and some are 20
maternal they just must be motnerlng
men. no matter of what age
~ know a few women who seem abb
SOIllthlN sincere NuFll Nllts NN''''
never have a thought for a man, and
never have any relations with them OF
4 romantic nature. II is an impersonal.
Scxlcss life they lead, and they Jog
along comfortably but, oh, my; what
a lot of excitement and thrills ana
hcartaches and wild Joy and toolishn'ss
they miss. I'd rather he dead than
impersonal and without interest in the
other half. IT,
They're devils, but we can't live
without EN- ~
Another question is: Can men live
without us? OF course, most of them
marry. but we catch them when they
are Young. Bernard Shaw claims that
women are on the still hunt for men
all the time.
I'VE all know what actual tumultu-
ous ioy boys have at football. and in
their limitations and at lodges. and at
baseball parks, and how they go away
into deep woods and hunt and fish all
alone for months. and how they fight
against admitting women TO BAN
Il fear men are a little more essen
tial to our happiness than we are to
theirs even nowadays. Oh, dear, l
wish ! had a husband to get supper
for" sighed the widow.