The Washington times., 1922-02-12

the lady Of calico and balbriggan.
can orgy Of adornment has been
claiming a veritable sacrifice OF
comfort and health. possibly even
Of life. Fashions are followed pas.
sionately and with little variety.
FANTASTIC ADORNMENT.
Dark heads and golden heads
have the hair bobbed or dressed
in the same fashion, with the same
plastered side curls and adorned
with hats alarmingly alike and
weighted with queer and poly
chrome ornaments Of beads, wool,
tassels, and know not what, while
beneath shows one color Of yellow
ish white, the result Of excessive
and unskillful use of cheap powder!
1T have seen girls dressed in a
way fit only for the hottest indoor
room. : The gauze silk stockings
offering no protection to the tor
tured feet, even when the boots
were made of more than paper
stoutness; while the fashionable
wooden wrap, even the fur collar
or coat, could not counterbalance
the danger to health from blouses,
low-necked and fashioned Of stuff
scarcely thicker than cobwebs.
"What Is likely to happen now
when the full years Of war change
to the empty years Of peace? No
longer able to spend in the way to
which their high wages have made
them accustomed, girls will seek
to get presents from men; they
will want excitement and the dress
and the pleasures to satisfy that
need, also to hold the envy OF
their friends.
'The weaker girl will prefer to
sell her body rather than 60 back
to the hum-drum life Of drudgery
in the back.kitchens. 1t Is well
that we should remember that II
women are to suffer from mems
passions, men will suffer no less
from women's greed"
FOR QUICK DIVORCES.
1t is high time, Mrs. Hartley.
holds. for a social REIMBURSEMENT to
meet the changing conditions. She
pleads that marriage be made more
difficult, that divorce be made
quick, simple and painless. The
future of marriage is in the hands
Of women. the author declares,
and then describes some Of the
types Of womanhood. thus:
Have not these modern girls
lost much of the tender. waiting,
Indebtedness of youth? Their
faces, at sixteen, fifteen. and at
fourteen years even. are already
old, with hard confidence showing
in their bold gaze. but no happi-
ness.
81 tell you that they are dis
satisfied because the soul OF
woman is crushed, unable to come
up from it's dark hiding. and
breathe the sun and light to see
that life is good. Why cannot the
old faith come back?
"a man falls in love very read
lily. and girls have used the mans
undisciplined impulses for his
own subsection. l do not wish to
pass any censure on women. The
sensualist within most Of us II
stronger than we women admit,
and the primitive fact forces us
to take risks, sending us headlong
into a thousand dangers.
Marriage is not religion to
us; it is q sport. We require n
character with our butler or cook,
we engage an expert to test the
drains of our house, but in mar
riage we take no such sensible pre-
cautions. and we even pride our.
selves that we do not take them.
FAILING IN LOVE"
I'VE speak of falling in love:
we do fall! The conventions are
sacred, nothing else matters. We
stand for purity, which means
with women, ignorance. and with
men, silence and discretion.
Marriage has ceased to be a
discipline; it has become an ex-