Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-30
WINIFRED BLACKS
w SPECIAL ARTICLE
Ccpyrixht. 1927. by Newspaper Feature Services

Dear me. they're after us again
the men.
What in the world would they do
if they didn't have women to laugh at,
and to tease and to study and TO
criticise?
How very important we must be,
after all. :.
What a big place we must TAKE IN
life, if we're going to Judge by the
amount of breath the men spend ols-
cussing us.
Orr brains are to small and so are
our feet, and our waists are too Dig
and orr skirts too short-or too long,
or too skinny, or too full. Either they
are immodest and bold. or clumsy and
unbygienic.
Cross About lt7
And our hair, what a time they 90
have over our hair-its too elap-
~orately dressed, or too PLAIN. ana
when some of us actually cut It OH
to please ourselves. you would nave
thought that the end of the world was
at hand to judge from the wild dlrge
that rose like q wake song from the
masculine throats.
We marry too young. we marry too
old.
We're cad-abouts. and flutter-
hlfnyPJS, dfi IS up
We're giddy. Iight-minded. frivolous,
too fond of amusement.
W. are stupid and unprogressive
md TOO much interested IN the dairy
bI,mdrum of the home. We're TOO
literal and too serious and TOO mar
row-minded.
We're vain. We think too much
about our compilations and our flg-
nres and our hair-look at the way a
man has to wait for every one OF US
when he's going to take us to the
theater or somewhere else.
Or else we're careless and down
at-the-heeIs. and not smart and we'll
groomed enough to suit the modern
man.
And now we-ah. we have no souls.
Imagine q woman Of sense and char
acter and position getting up at a
public dinner and owlishly declaring
that men have ne souls.
Doubtless there isn't a woman
living who hasn't made up her mind
half q dozen times at some ~half-dozen
or so periods in her life that men
never had, haven't now and never will
have even the rudiments of souls.
But she has sense enough TO keep
hC mood to herself and not inflict the
world with it, and by and by she gets
Over it.
Cross about it?
No, indeed,
Own Up Now!
Why should we be cross?
Were you cross when the boy who
sat behind you in school pulled the
ribbon off your braid just when you
were going up to the board to explain
a problem?
now. when that same boy. or some
other. waited for you at the school
house door and washed your face with
snow?
Of course you hated to have your
hair come unbranded, and you didn't
like the feel of the cold snow and the
rough mitten on your face-but you
knew what the boy meant by 1t.
He never leased a girl unless he
was interested in her. and you were
sorry for the poor girl who walked so
primly and so safely past the SHOW
hank out through the gate home in
the chill dusk of early evening twilight
alone.
You preferred the f~ace-washing and
the hair-pulling and the cavorting.
awkward followers who suddenly
Jumped out from behind trees or ran
on ahead ard fell in the snow with
hoarse shoutings-you knew what they
meant-oh, yes you did, little as you
were. And you rather liked the per-
formance-own I'm now!
Alas for the. day when men stop
criticising US sisters.
Wen know, then, that they've
stopped thinking about ns and that Will
be for both men and lis a sad and