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Show WOMAN iDE If FIGHTFOR MM) Douglas Concludes That the "Shameless Sex" Is a Good Name Writ ten for International News -cri-e BY JAMES DOUG1 IS i ditor .r the Sunds I Kpress Ni'N'lxiN". July IT. What Is the meaning of the riot of nudity into which the world of womanhood hn plunged so frantically? Here I touch a very dangerous subject woman. Nearly everybody who touches her burns his fingers. After thousands of years man knows very little about this baffling and elUflve ci. ature, und wiiat he thinks ho knows Is invariably invaria-bly wrong The war has profoundly disturbed the feminlmi mind. Many millions of young miiiex have 'k-ch slaughtered, mutilated or deranged. There Is a world -shortage of male. The strange herd-SOUl of woman, moving In the mass, has taken fright nt the sentence ot celibacy which has been passed upon her. There are not imugh men to go round. Before tbe war the rl- airy of women was acute Today it is Ifrcnsied. Instinctively the herd-soul of woman is doubling Ita allnrementa, trebling its wiles, quadrupling its baits. DESCRIBE SX MLPTOMS It has east modesty to I he w!nd9 It has ahandoned all its reserves nnd reticences. All is fair In love and war, and (he herd-soul of woman Is resortlriK- to the most audldOUS devices de-vices in order to e-ipilvaie and cup-lure cup-lure th" surviving meiea The vogue of the y.zz dnnee is one symptom of tlii.s frensy. The violent outbursts of vehement colors In feminine femi-nine raiment is another. The hysterical hysteri-cal eccentricity of feminine attire Is another nut the most alarming symp-l torn Is the absolutely brasen display of feminine charms. I have alWays suspected that man IS tba shy sex and thai woman is the shameless sex, but now 1 know It In pure or Impure effronteT) women today are the equals if not tho superiors, t the women of imy epoch. The growth of feminine shamelcss-ness shamelcss-ness hua been so gradual that wo iwvi in u:ne iiinrca 10 Ji n e can hardly remember tho days before the w:.i when decency was slill practiced In the publle theatre and the public restaurant by respectable women. It Is not easv to recall tho era of the veiled calf. I int the climax in effrontery Is the vogue of the bare neck. The other night at a theatre the bare backs In the stalls suggested that the Stuge had j erased to compete with society. A man said to m that he fell inclined I to go to the theatre in future armed! with a rubbT stamp Before him sat. a lady with nothing on her bade which was enamel- d with sonic pink liquid I should like." he said, "to 1 brand hat In red with the words wet j paint ' " It is not pleasing to see a matron j Of forty or fifty summers with dyed hair, rouged lips, painted cheeks, blackened eyelids and eyelashes, brandishing bran-dishing her adlposo back at a disgust-j ed crowd. FAUIrs or vol SG. Worse still Is the abominable 1dj-i modesty of the young girl who apesj the manners, if not the morals, of i the courtesan. The age of childhood seema to have passed. Girls are grown up at twelve, bla.M at thirteen, heart-' less at fourteen, birds of prey at flf-. teen, i.;, riles at .;Licou, ami sour at sev-enxeen. sev-enxeen. 11 Is the fault of the mothers. They tin IniiJcr "i:nif nnd re;?! rn I n tlii uleas- ure-loving giii. The) allow her u rub off the tdoom of outh in dubiou! it sorts with doubtful companions. And the tide of corruption tlow: more and more stronyly every' day The decadent and degenerate polsoni of Paris inftct our tashiotis. Soitk of the Pans theatres are now unfll to be described Outrages upon taste and propriety are permitted which are incredible, wit has been slain by vulgarity. No newspaper not even a French newspaper- would dare to describe de-scribe t lie tilings which are done on the Paris stage. The remed) is the lash of public opinion. It ought to be applied without with-out delay. |