The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-07
WOMEN'S WORLD

WoMEN, SO some feminists announce
every so often, now may go any place
that men go. Well perhaps they may, but
fortunately there are still few places where
they don't want to GO!
The national bicycle races, for example
which are a feature of the November pro-
gram at Madison Square Garden in New York
For a week now men have raced round and
round the circle. The idea is to see how fast
the riders can go, OF in other words, who can
get nowhere first. Nearly 1900 men-and
few, a very few wOmen-have watched the
circular speed chase.
The expressions on the mems faces are as
beatiflc as those Of a small boy with his first
bicycle. They glorify in the physical endur-
anee. Men sit by the hour and watch women,
Wearied in a few minutes, turn away.
Perhaps men of the sporting world are glad
to know that their prize fights, bull fights,
bicycle races and ike events are still theirs
But it may lessen their joy of possession to
know that they hold the lease merely because
women don't want entrance We have invaded
their barber shops, their offices and the voting
OOOlA4S WHICH were SdCI6O 10 lIldSCulI1e
Livery stables, whose red and yellow posters
Haunted the charm of coming circuses, have
gone, or men might rule supreme among the
harnesses and sawduSt
But We have looked over their sports, ac-
cording to the popular count, and decided that
we don't want any. At least not often.
In Mexico and Spain the men leave their
women at home when they go out to celebrate.
After all, they reason, a lady with nice man
ners has no place at a bullfght. Far better it
is for her to sit on her balcony and make lace
and give her lord and master the pleasure of
telling her the bloody details of the sports
event.
They love it, too, these dark-eyed senoritas.
They like being treated as something fragile
that must be protected. Deep down in their
warmly pulsing hearts they don't want to sit
in the sun and watch TWO bulls charge at each
other, anyway, so everything is all right.
American women, emancipated as the gen.
eraI proclamation declares they are, have the
same reaction as their Latin sisters. In
stinctively they know that it is slightly diff
cult when the lights are low, for man to
grow romantic over a woman whose interest
can outlast his at a physical endurance con-
test. They give thanks secretively that they
are bored withheld, bicycle racesl
Men and women are still as different in
their personal reactions as they were back in
the days when only men wore gardenias in
their buttonholes Women didn't always faint
just because it was q helpless gesture in the
petticoat days. They had their limp moments
because they experienced honest fright. For
tunately, contact with the economic world has
helped US to learn self-control But it hasn't
made us prefer prizefghts to Leslie Howard
and Noel Coward as a steady entertainment
diet.
In fact, if women suddenly should insist
that they must accompany their husbands and
sons and sweethea-ts to every place of en-
tertainment the good old Spanish custom of
locking up the feminine element of the house
hold might develop
Men stay away from the sewing societies
and quilting bees and fashion teas and cook
ing schools and book review clubs. Not be-
cause We ask them TO. Because they couldn't
be coaxed to come! For the same reason We
let them go round in circles when the bicycles
get on the track. We don't call it fun. at
least. the great majority of women don't.
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