San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-12
Today
Not Free" Not
"Love."
Changing Woman.
A Silent Mussolini?
Test Your Vocabulary.
By Arthur Brisbane

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| By Arthur Brisbane
u Copyright. 1926 by star Coz
A YOUNG New Englapder, &C
~ cused of trying to start Stree
love farm" says it is "au ex-
pertinent in social science" Such
experiments planned to dispense
with the "ring and the book" never
80 f,s. So-called Stree love" has two
serious defects: 1t isn't "free," and
it isn't love-
But such experiments have their
good side. They make it clear, to
whoever will learn, that matrimony,
with its admitted imperfections, all
OF them mans fault, is a great deal
bette: than any substitute.
THE most important dressmaker i'll
= Berlin-that isn't saying much,
Since Paris rules fashion-says wo-
men will soon take to knickerbockers
and skirts will disappear.
This lady remarks, and there is
much in her philosophy. that women
can afford to wear knickerbockers
now. and no longer need the volum-
nous dresses that were used to hide
ugly shapes, unnecessary fat, etc.
NTsHERE are few ugly legs now
= and waists are slenderer," says
that Berlin lady. And polite man
will agree concerning legs, with what
used to be said before prohibition
about whiskey: "Some whiskey was
much better than other whiskey, but
there was no bad whiskey.-
HOWEVER. while women may
L change from skirts to knicker-
bockers, as they have changed with
violent suddenness from long hair to
short hair, you never can be sure
that women will not change back
again.
Mans clothing represents useful
ness, convenience.
Woman's clothing represents mys-
tery. romance, sentiment, heaven
knows what. Just when you expect
the object Of your dreams TO rush out
in knickerbockers, flat heels and
rough wooden stockings, she is most
apt 10 appear with silk, satin or lace
skirt dragging on the ground, puffed
sleeves twice as big as her head, a
hoopskirt eight feet in diameter, and
a hustle fastened 10 the back.
Woman is changeable. because she
has not quite attained perfection.
ANILAN reports that Mussolini
IVA will give an Italian imitation Of
President Coolidge's tsciturnity. Ac-
cording TO the Popolo D'Italia Mus
solini thinks he has talked too
much. LET us keep quiet and let
actions talk" is his new motto.
It is only fair to Mussolini to say
that his actions have talked more
than he has talked. To start in the
uniform Of simple soldier, and
work up in few months to be man
ager Of great country, restoring it
TO its ancient power and place among
nations, offsets a good deal Of talk.
THERE are two ways Of succeeding
in this world, the President
Coolidge and Cromwell way, with few
words, and the Theodore Roosevelt
Mirabeau way-both good men
Mr.. vizetelly, whose specially is
words, says many professional men
know more words than Shakespeare.
lie adds, Woodrow Wilson in three
Of his books used 10000 distinct
terms" Many peasants go through
life knowing three or four hundred
words altogether. The average busi-
ness mans vocabulary is under TO-
600, the college graduate about dou-
bic that, until he begins to forget
them.
COMPARISON between Shakes
~ peare and Woodrow Wilson
isn't Of importance. Everything de-
ponds on what you do with the words
in your vocabulary. Any line that
Shakespeare ever wrote will last
longer than all that Woodrow Wilson
ever wrote.
Michael Angelo chiseled out his
Moses or David using only a mallet
and stone chisel. But he did more
than other workmen do with the
most complicated sets Of tools.
To TEST your little boys or girls
vocabulary. see how many words
they can construct out Of these seven
letters:
A-I--E-R-C-I,
No word sh ID contain fewer than