Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-27
ROMANTIC GIRL GONE;
. WHAT KIND IS TO COME?
Feminine Writer Sees Her In
Stage OF Transition; A.
fected by New Rights.


Now York. Feb. 2b.--What will to-
morrow's daughter boz
Tho romsntic woman has gone Who
will take her place?
Woman today In In a state OF tran
sition. Apprnisals are apt not to M
clude perfect Understanding OF her
She In a specimen who moves too
fast for scrutiny.
BY tomorrow she will be moulded
into mid-twenticth- century type
which may reveal tho best traits Of
this moment with choice attributes
culled from her past history.
But must we go bnck to ancient
Greece to flnd a model for tomorrow
Mrs Margaret Culkin Banning. n
novelist from our Northwest, has come
from Duluth 10 tell us her views on
woman's future. She says that our
next kind OF woman will be:
"A combination OF the charm of the
romantic type with the mind we have
now.
"A woman without today's Nharp-
ness and nervousness. with a mind In
| cisive but not aggressive. l should
| Ike 20 pick out OF the past n feminine
| figure OF the sort
"Sappho. the sweet singer OF Greece
believe was that type"
| In discussing her own rex. Mrs
Banning does not neglect 10 make the
most Of the opposite one as basls OF
comparison. since man is always af-
fected by woman's revolt.
Women will go on making great
progress" she predicts"
AS man thlnketh In his own heart,
40 In he among his womenkind. This
is the opinion OF Miss Margaret Wild
demer. poet and novelist
THE woman OF the future" che
says. will be one who will not need TO
suppress any part Of herself I'm order
to develop any other part. she will
have n chance
"sincc woman has got down into the
fight she has lost some OF her birds
eye View OF things
"She is not harder nor more brill
liant than the hard brilliant man of
today. our pcst-war type is not unlike
the -Napoleonics. Women today
react from all the social conditions
ending with the war.
"All men are bewIldered at pres
ent. all holding their heads. We wo-
men believe In the modern man, but
n good many of va have come m
against the unreconstructed ones.
"Of course the governing are al
ways alarmed when the governed
arise. Now, most women have at
tained to the belief that they are
mems equal, except the fiuHy ones
who always thought they were mems
superiors."
: have seen many women OF flns
: mental equipment and driving person.
: aIity turning over every scrap 81 mind
body and Intelligence to the busines,
OF charming men, even TO tho crclu.
sion OF remaining human beings.
, Women have been told they co,,ltn'
be both attractive and SUCCESSFUL
: and they believed It. But. OF course
II can be done"
S Are women heady over their new
Z sCccess?"
, '"lf that Is true IL is quite natural
A In fact, Il should be true. because peo
pie freed from anything are at f,rs
i apt to go too far" replies Miss Wilde
r.i,r.
4 violent over-a ssertIon is always :
sign OF not being sure OF ones self
/. The mid-Victorian woman SCENE,
: meek and, mild. She let her husban,
[ tell her what cap to wear to breakfa st
/. She loved and humored him, bu
4 laughed TO herself. She owed tn,
e thrill his superiority gave her. M,
: master she thought. Women still
love to say that
= Think OF gentle little Jane Auste,
Z as people who have read her book
= speak OF her. And as for hard bril-
= tiancy today among women, there wa
2 Nine. de Stael in the past, Just tn
type of woman people now cal
modern
What man does for woman 1
not nearly so important as what n
thinks about her.
e Superiority in morals and right
e mindedness Is not the exclusiv
Z property of either sex, nor will It eve
I be"