The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-21
Man Inconsistent In What He Expects
 Of Won1dn Mob
By Marguerite Moores Marshall

 She says: We want woman stuff when we mate more than we want sheer mind stuff; that's the blunt. .. Even the brilliant and intelligent among men are not always balanced enough to have any desire for brains in the woman they love. have debated the thing with myself many times, and entirely sympathize with the intelligent men who marry women with lines, vivacity, joyousness and emotional power-and little brains. Man doesn't get from brainy women, as a rule, those truly great values which men seem of need from wOmen-child- likeness, unconsciousness, emotionality, uncritical faith, and-well, simmer ing moods, beautiful bodies, spontane- ity."
 So runs the old-fashi6ned opinion of young man in a new-fashioned novel l-J. George Frederick's Two Wom- en-" Oliver Wendell Holmes expressed the same idea more succinctly when he wrote: '"The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red" Yes-doubtless-of course. But why does man, frankly greedy in most, things, so limit himself in the matter of picking wife. Why is he so modest--or is it hopeless ?-in his de- sires? Instead of feeling compellel to marry lovely moran, because the only other type of female in circula- tion is an crudite and chilly bag, why not look for beauty plus brains? Hon. estly, the combination never was non- existent, and it's growing more plenti- ful every day!
 Dr. Holmes is perhaps right in say ing that men prefer red roses to white ones. But did the dear doctor never go into one of the gardens of his own New England and there behold what our grandmother called Scotch rosef It was simply a rosebush which bore both white and red flowers, and it was---and is-no more of a prodigy among plants than is the woman among women who grows both ideas and emotions in the garden of her love. Give a man both--as she is ready to give them to the right man and he's far more likely not to grow tired of either!
 Women are a bit tired of being classified according. to mans enternal enthusiastically or brains, heart or mind, wit or winsomeness. Gentlemen, you do far too little credit ot our infi- mite variety!
 Polygamy, of course, is too expensive for occidentals-but it's also unneces- sary. The modern woman may be a half dozen wives-a picture of phy- sieal loveliness, wit, butterfly of joyous vivacity, loyal chum, sympa- thetic mother confessor, an irresponsi- ble child. A college education doesn't take the woman stuff out of woman. The ability to support herself doesn't destroy her good looks. There is brain and heart in every woman's body. The qualities associated with each organ are in every well-balanced woman's personality.
 Lymphatic loveliness, indeed, exists what MT. Frederick's hero hymns as Hines, emotional power and little brains" Man often does prefer it to ~mind stuff'' unadorned; that is, he prefers it until he gets it. And then or, if not ''then," certainly year from ''then'-how it bores him The Hines" have turned into a stupid, greedy, lazy womarl's fat curves.
 r. $. The moral is: Be a Scotch rose, with the red flowers of passion and the. white of intelligence bloom ing side by side. And oh, yes-if you are man, marry that kind!