, 1922-02-02

against marriage. 1t is n short-sighted view. for
you cannot mend things by looking on, any more
than you can stop a dog fight by waving an UNI
brella on the pavement. But the great majority
of younger women are realizing today that, If n
change is to be made, If We are to get nearer a
single moral standard, 1t is for women to bring this
about.
Women have. on the whole, been. or tried to
be, what men expected them to be. If women ex-
pected more of men they, too, would do the same"
Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of The
odore Roosevelt. believes the girls of today are
superior to their sisters of yesterday. Notwith-
standing their bobbed hair and their abbreviated
skirts and even their cigarette smoking, they are
more capable, more interesting and think oftener
and clearer than the types of their mothers gen.
Grafton.
THE girl of today is n splendid creature" she
asserts. Her cigarette smoking and bobbed hair
are just outward signs of that flapper stage
through which she Is passing.
Girls today are developing remarkable execu-
tive ability and leadership. This naturally makes
them more Independent. They are doing things
their mothers never would have dreamed Of UNI
dertaking. They are succeeding in every field OF
business and industry they enter
But more than that-they are becoming better
wives and mothers. The franchise has wldened
their point of view. With their greater under
standing, men are discovering them better com
rades and children are finding them able to UNI
derstand even their pettiest problems.
"Woman's place is still within the home. The
very highest type of woman today Is that one who
ties without sighting the latter In any way. Wom-
en-, by living more systematic and orderly lives.
are doing what twenty years ago they would have
regarded ms impossible
Mrs. oliver II. +. Belmont has been elected pres
ident of the National Woman's party, following her
gift Of $14ey0OO with which to complete the pur-
chase Of thF entire block composing the "old cap
itol" Mt Washington. She announces that a new
"Pettlcoat party" will be In the field. with women
voters organized In every state TO "carry on"
against the old political parties. There Is to be
a womnn's platform and a woman candidate for
president. The first issue. however. Is n proposed
amendment 10 the Constitution to abolish all legal
determinations against women. The slogan Of
the "Petticoat party is practically this: "Man
has got things into a pretty mess. The women
must clean up the mess"
Mrs. Belmont has money and social position.
The National Womans party Is the militant wing
OF the women suffragists. Its members have the
courage Of their convictions, us was shown by the
White House picketing, the Jail terms and the hun
ger strikes still fresh In the public memory.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Miss Anne Morgan. prIn.
cess Catacuzene, Charlotte Perkins Gilman nnd
others are back of n plan to give to mankind n
New Worlds History" 1t Will give the "truth Of
history" and set woman straight In the eyes of the
world. like this: Woman was created before man
the rib story Is mnn-made. Cleopatrn was mn, n
ynmp, but n political and military genius. Joon
Of Are never heard "volces"; she was n milI,arv
maid who joyed In the clash Of battle. Henry Of
Navarro and Napoleon did not hold a candle To
their mothers.
Mrs. Elizabeth Murray Shepherd will edit the
New Worlds History And she snys;
"rhe greatest tragedy OF the rnce WINS ,yhor
men wrested control from women. Since the mower
OF selection was taken from woman mnn's era NJ
seliishness and war came upon the earth. We
world nrr la. nn. .