The Washington times., 1921-05-18
Today
New, Therefore ting.
One MiddIe,aged Woman.
What We Eat, We Are.
J. o., Jr., Worries. No
Wonder.
Arthur BRISBANE
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Johnny, run out, overtake
Jour father, give him these let
ters to mail" That Is old.
After the Aquitania left Cher
bourg harbor and started across
the ocean a flying machine start
I'd from London overlook the ship
and dropped on her deck three
letters to be mailed to business
firms in New York. That is mew.
Many women worry when their
cheeks begin to sag and fine
wrinkles come in the skin on the
chest. If they are fat, they
squeeze themselves. If thin, they
rub on paint, pin on false curls.
II they can afford it they buy
r1diculously made expensive cloth
ing. If they can't afford it, they
fret and buy cheap limitations of
expensive clothing. They worry
about age, mourn over lost youth.
Yet, smonR civilized beings, youth
should be to maturity what q fool
ish little sprout is to an oak tree.
Women that worry about age
should have seen Marie Curie, the
French scientist, at luncheon yes
terday, surrounded by admiring
chemists, physicists and others
that take serious interest in life
There was woman in middle
age. small, pale, with earnest
deep-set gray eyes, intensely con
centrated, capable, using her
brain to give knowledge to human
beings, bringing with her to this
country the fine daughters that
she has given to the race.
That is middle age worth
while. You could have brought
all the girls from Mr.. Ziegfeld's
Midnight Follies into that rooE
with their toy balloons. vacant
laughter and full tights, and they
would have attracted no attention,
A real woman was there, worth
looking at. 49, >-~ -~' 80
The trouble is that civilization
has made II difficult for women to
be real. Mans stupidity and self
ishness set a premium on imrna
ture youth. Our civilization still
shows the picture that Recius, the
great Frenchman, put in his book.
Man and the Earth The man
in tree is looking out for the
enemy, the young woman holds
the handles of the plow, two old
women hitched up PULL THE
PLOW.
That will change in time. The
day is coming when women win be
admired for the quality Of their
brains, not merely for hair. skin,
teeth and other passing skin-deep
charms.
Carpenter, French fighter. ar
rives in America. His first ques-
ton is: Whom do / fight after I
have beaten Dempsey" That is
the right spirit. Not to be afraid
of your man is 50 per cent Of the
problem. Especially when he is
younger and bigger.
Carpenter brings his own cook.
The French understand, and we. do
not, the Importance Of the cook.
A man is what he eats. And il
Carpenter. no longer young, is
able after five years Of fighting in
the trenches to knock out good
fighters in three seconds, it is be-
cause he has always known what
good food and real temperance
mean France Is not cursed by
vhiskey OR ice water.
John d. Rockefeller, ir., asks,
"Will civilization survive 7" A rea-
sonable question. The earth, tiny
speck in the visible universe, is,
relatively, as unimportant as one
baby in the slums of great city.
Among human beings we have
criminals, hunch-backs, idiots, epi-
leptics, all sorts of failures. What
happens to individuals may happen
to planets.
Certainly this earth of ours,
for the last ten thousand years,
has acted like Jesse James, the
highwaymsn, an Indian thug or
a pyromaniac, but not like we'll
balanced, normal creature. Our
record Of murder, plague, starva-
ton. cruelty, ignorance and bru-
tality justifies Mr.. Rockefeller's
question, "Will civilization sur
vive?" No wonder the other plan
cts don't speak to us. Our hands
are too bloody, and our hearts too
selfish.
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