The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-24
The
WOMAN'S
DAY
BY Anene Sumner

A certain rich man whose name
has been rather prominent Of late
years states that he received more
than 10000 mash notes from young
women In various parts of the globe
last year.
At first thought. one says, THE
hussies! Always some of them to
prove that the female Of the species
is the aggressive wooer, the chaser
Of the poor male"
But just a minute nowl How many
mash notes from men the globe over
do you suppose some equally rich
and equally prominent and equally
photographed girl would have re-
ceived IN the same length Of time?
Here's wagering that the sum to-
tai would still make the girls. even
as symbolized by the 10000 Washers,
look like dew-wet meadow violets!
Billie Burke, wife Of F'lorenz Zieg-
field. of F'ollies fame, sits herself
down with a magazine writer to tell
him just how she has managed to
hold Flo" during thirteen years of
wedlock. despite the worlds most
beautiful girls who are her hus-
bands stock in trade
Mrs. Ziegfeld leaves no stone I'M
turned to satisfy the public. She
tells, with names, of one or two Of
her husbands confessed amours. and
how she took him TO her heart and
told him that all was forgiven and
forgotten.
One wonders a little just what was
said and done in the Ziegfeld menage
the day that article appeared. Here
is an interesting situation. A wife
may not testify against her husband
in court II a stranger said in print
the same things this wife of Ziegfeld
said, the stranger could be prose
cuted for libel.
But here is the case OF n wife pub.
licly Ebeling her own husband. Thus
runs the. irksome life Of one whose
most luscious diet is publicity.
Here's guessing that Mary Smith
who found that red hair on Tom
Smiths coat last night is glad she's
only who she is and not Billie
Burke, who, for sweet publicity's
sake, must tell the public all about it.
A lady attorney makes this declar-
alton in a current magazine: Il be-
lieve | could not now be induced to
enter into the present legal status of
marriage. Marriage is too much of
Il compromise; II lops off a woman's
life as an Individual. Yet the renun.
citation. too, is n looping Off. We
choose between the frying pan and
the fire, both very uncomfortable"
First of all. l wonder II the lady
means what she says. 1 wonder if
there lives any one woman any
where who could not be so induced
by that romantic, fictitious person,
mr.. Right"
Secondly, she sounds far from OPP
dosen't she? I wonder il
she would be a great asset to any
partner in matrimony?
The ideal business girl is described
by a young lady writer in a maya
zine Of the week And when one
the specifications, one won
ders whether one is reading about
an ideal typist or an ideal "Follies"
girl! This girl must be about feet
Z iches, we are told, weight from
120 TO 1876 pounds. wear her skirts
80 as to convey the idea of brevity
without exhibiting an undue ex-
panse OF limbs" She must dress
be poised, gracious,
vivacious. Wonder just
how long she'd punch a typewriter
for a living. And If such things be
true, parents who are preparing
their female offspring for a business
career should send 'em to finishing
schools rather than business col
leges.