Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
As Told to.
LILLIAN G. GEM.

T was not so long ago when men were
wont to boast of their susceptibility to
women's charms, when they took de-
light in serenading some pretty girl
under her window at midnight and
lavishing her with gifts and flowers. That
was the time when a young gallant thought
nothing of overcoming obstacles to win the girl
of his heart
But today young men are becoming increas-
ingIy skillful in evading love affairs. Rarely do
they court girl or send her flowers as token
of their esteem. They not only wait for her In
vitations and gifts, but hardly bastir themselves
to held her wrap when she pays the BILL
What has brought about this change? There
are many who blame the modern girl because
she had welded the tomahawk of equality; that
it is her independence and Sef-suficiency which
have made men Indifferent to her.
COSMO HAMILTON takes up no cudgels for
- the modern man. He rather scores them
for their attitude and feels that they are q
reflection on the once so-called stronger SEX
No real, red-blooded man, he believes, would
allow woman to play a lone hand in the game
OF love.
Playwright, short-story writer and novelist,
Cosmo Hamilton has evinced in many Of his
recent works that he understands men and
women. He. is a well Travelled, sophisticated
man, tall and broad-shouldered, with cour-
teouS manner.
Cosmo Hamilton is a member Of a dis
tfnguished English family, the brother OF Sir
Philip Gibbs and Maj. A. Hamilton Gibbs and
the uncle Of Anthony Gibbs, an of whom have
made names for themselves in the literary
world Mr. Hamilton started his career at an
early age and was under 80 when he became
editor of Englands most famous society journal.
He was also the first playwright to have four
plays running at once in London, each one
being unusually successful.
The author was captain In the Legion Of
Frontiersmen, an officer in a territorial reg1-
ment, and was commissioned in the Royal
Naval Air Service at the outbreak of the war.
he has likewise been on active free lance IN
English politics and during the last general
election in England worked for ex-Prime Min
lister Baldwin.
Mr. Hamilton divides the greater part of the
year between London and his villa at Mentone,
on the French Riviera. Every so often he
spends several months in the United States.
It was in his coy book-lined apartment in New
York that he discussed, diagnosed and causti-
caIly condemned the young man of today.
~There is no doubt but that men are in the
Background in love affairs today" he said. cit
8 the women who have to seek them out and
pay homage to them. The reason men evade
love is not because women do not interest them,
as they claim, but because deep in their hearts
they are aware that they are inferior TO the
modern woman. They do not feel at ease with
her and are unable to handle her intelligently
women today are better educated than men.
They are charming, attractive, radiantly healthy
young creatures who have wonderful vitality
and spirit. They are ready for any adventure
and are determined to do what they can to live
life to the utmost.
IS for the Englishmen who were fit to be
their mates, the war claimed the best Of
them. The laughing, courageous, gallant men
were killed. In the United States, while you
did not lose as many as England, yet the
number that daily killed in flying and in
motor car accidents brings the total lost to a
very high one
"I have addressed some of the woman's col
Ieges and attended the debutante dances. These
young women are so far superior to the men
that they know that they cannot find even
common meeting ground for conversation. They
are wistful for male companionship. they want
to love and be loved. They want marriage.
But all they see about them are physically I'M
attrs~sive men who try to hide their dizziness
Under a mask of indifference and conceft.
"These young men do not know anything of
love They do not even realize that It Is an art
Which has to be given some thought A man