Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-14

adding to her store Of experience liz
, in Hollywood. Americas motion pic
| ture colony, of which she became par
/ during the six months spent in writing
and filming her picture, "The Grea
Moment"
MHEN she wrote The Visits OF
w Elizabeth" she sketched American
men and women with light and ap
preCiative touch and her opinion O
them has not changed much. She i,
especially partial TO American men an(
thinks that American business Is pic
turesque.
"The particular problem Of the Amer
lean woman, she said after lookinl
them over. sis to control the natura
human vanity that turks in the feminin,
soul. The women of every country are
what their men make them. and here
women are so petted that their very
contentment is at stake.
DO you think they are happy? The
faces of these perfectly groomed women
! see around me are filed with discon
tent. And it is because women are moi
meant to have too much Of their owr
way. They are happier when ruled By
wiSe and brilliant men. 1t is the law
of Nature, and when we distort Natur,
she takes her revenge by destroying tn,
individual.
Elinor Glyn's Utopia would be ,
halcyon place for men but a strenuous
one for women. Subtle sophist tha
she IL. she believes in capturing ant
binding the male with the silken skein
OF physical charm. creature comfort ant
discriminating surrender. She mixe
old fashioned bromides and radica
stimulants quite freely.
Feed the brute. my dear" she ad
vises the young wife. "Beautify ant
adorn yourself for the hours when vol
are alone with Henry Mems sense
take in everything, apparently uncon
sciouSly. An ungraceful position il
sitting, an ugly personal habit of bitin,
lips. or wrinkling the forehead. or fin
gering the face, subconsciously revol
them.
A I ALL costs do not jar on Henry.
"A There is no use in giving sugar
to bird II sugar makes it sick ant
some other food would be more accept
able. Find out what does attract Henr,
and give him that.
Then, when the spark of intcres
Is alight. the greatest intelligence /.
required to bring in a little mystery
Drop veil so to speak, 50 that h,
must use effort to lift it arouse his
hunting instinct, in fact. And. abov,
all. let him leave you at all time.
soothed and pleased with himself
I'm America. where men are in tn,
majority, the women can give them
selves what airs they please" she de
clared. This ingrained knowledge OF
personal supremacy gives them mag
netic attraction, but in our poor ole
England there are six women to every
man and the fight is totally unequal
for fight it certainly has become.
1T is perfectly ridiculous for peopl,
TO say this is unfeminine and unlady
like. lt is natural that normal woman
should desire mate and the struggle
IN every country is regulated by the
state OF numbers. A career may solv,
things Tor time, but unless the nerves
ana desires of the working bee arc
evolved in women the solution Is not
permanent.
II find that women are becoming a
mass or egOtism and less attractive ali
the time. This is a condition of nun
bers. The war il responsible. So many
soldiers rushed into marriage with what
call the jazz girls that the race is
golng to be set back n generation"