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Show IWKat Women Have Gained and Lost By "Emancipation I By Katharine Tynan, Author of "An Isle in the Water." etc I. The revolution In the .nriai relations between be-tween mm find women hn. com cradtial-jy cradtial-jy almost imperoptlbly, rei "a" oc" curred within very short spnro or time. People need not be very fat advaneed in their fortle to r-mcnitwr when jrlrls were hs timid and convention" I as Jane Aiis ton's heroines. If they had discarded too Bhortiralad frocks with the low necks. I and the Uppers with white biockiiibb, yet they "preserved under their rr.cques with panlers Over iullt' d petUr..;its. under their Lanstry 'r-Beys, 'r-Beys, heart a mild and maidenly mai-denly s those, far-away damaeM That whs the time when no properly-tJroufht-up drl would drive I hansom, feed nt a restaurant, or drink a glass of Innocuous Innocu-ous sherry. The heroin- who flret climbed or. t"P "t .i 'bur deserves to have her name recorded In hlstorv It was n time when men had their diverticula diver-ticula to i hemselvi-f! , when cards and racing rac-ing were masculine mysteries to the mother moth-er as well as the daughter; when crbquet, with Its genteel exposure of a tsseled boot, was not yet nutte gone out of fusli-lon. fusli-lon. The women of those days must have been as mvsterlous to tho men as the men were to them. Although the vapora of an earlier day were gone out of fashion, yet It was a charming thing In a woman to be delicate Drinking vinegar was yet whispered of among schoolgirls as a desirable aid to the complexion. In which the color of health was a milkmaid vulgarity. 1 myself my-self have known what It was to sit with a blackboard In class. Girls wept and fainted on easy provocation. To be sure, tight lacing, which Is now an eccentricity, Was then a commonplace. A girl shriek' d over many things, over a black beetle, a mouse., a cow. Her novel reading was circumscribed cir-cumscribed Many mothers of daughters labooed everything but "The lb Ir OX Refl-clyflfe." Refl-clyflfe." That all tho world danced the waltz was something of a violent contradiction contra-diction When Health Was "Vulgar." All this In one aspect of it may have jritascd men. Health was vulgar till a man had an Invalid wife lying on a sofa year in and year out. The very art of those days was a cult of ill-health What in:tn thought of painting a milkmaid? An abnormal beauty altogether of Ill-health of mind and body Is In the pictures. But whether the art was made for the woman of the, day or the woman for the art. heaven knows. True it Is that the .,. men of tho aesthetic, days came to look as much as possible like the women of Koaaattl and William If orris, .is their sisters sis-ters of an earlier day, oval-faced and ring-letted, ring-letted, belonged to the things that were written about them in books, and painted of thorn In pictures. The bonbunnlere girls of tho Hooks of Beauty did really exist, had not altogether departed In the seventies. It is a remarkable tribute to the adaptability adapt-ability of woman that fr m generation to generation she tiMcrs her face to suit to the mode of thought. It Is not a matter of hair dressing or of clothes. The man of tho Dundreary whiskers and tho plaid trousers was the man of today with tllOM undesirable things added. But there is hardly cousltiship between the girl of tho Hooks of Beauty, the girl of John Ieeh. the aesthetic girl, the girl of the nineties, and the girl of today. In the nineties, when revolution was not yet altogether accomplished, something very charming came into vogue as the representative girl of that particular moment of time. She had a short, piquant, n troussc face, short hair, firm mouth, a round, developed chin. ler ees looked mankind squarely in the face, With Just the least little hint of defiance. de-fiance. It woj a bit of the American Pthool-marm added on to a fresh boylBh English girl. She was doing all sorts of things in those days of which she suspected sus-pected you of disapproving. She smoked cigarettes, even when she did not like them much, as a note of defiance. She, rode a bicycle, when It had not yet become be-come a humdrum thlnp to do. The Revolution. Accomplished. H Again the fashion of faces is changed. H That stage of evolution which was only H becoming to tho very young has given way H to the revolution accomplished. Tho girl H in poat and skirt, the girl of today, has no H .sticks and the blcyclu of today, has no H t onsclousness In her aspect. She does not H attempt to be half-boy. Nobody looks at H her when she Is doing pretty well what H eho likes. A party of hockey girls scram- H bling Into a car, muddy, and rosy with H exercise, attracts no particular attention. H To be sure, tho woman who has learned H to work has changed all that, for she has H Insisted on her right to play as she likes. H Ioking back on those days of the sov- H entles and eighties when women had not H : t ranged themselves alongside of man In H his work and In his amusements, I am H p. reuadcd that the ranging In Its social H aspect at least was very much clue to the H determination of women not to be left be- H bind, not to be ovi rlooked i men There H was a most feminine reason for the eman- H clpatlon. Women had grown tired of be- H ing shut out of men's amusements, of be. H log entirely dependent on men for What H ever Interest came their way. The des I H when the gentlemen drunk every night H and w r nh ked as they pleased, whil H the ladies read Blair's sermons and v.orkcd Samplers and took pills and at- tended to their housekeeping duties, were H yet not altogether out of date In the sev- entles H Then, all of a sudden, the women ranged H themselves alongside of the men. They H gave tip olttlng sleepily in feminine groups H while their mi n played cards Into the H sm.nl hours; they refused to be left In a H carriage or on a drag at the races while H the men folk Inspected the horses and saw H the weighing and penetrated the ring 1 They refused to be debarred the golf links. H The same thing which made the small fl girl, whoso brother, haughtily contemptu- OUS rf ner, told her that she was "only a H girl. " have visions of basketball, of hock- y and even cricket. s t the women of an-other an-other age and sort to bridge playing, backing hor.vs, noioriiig. .i.htlng. golf-ln golf-ln and all the ullne pursuits. And the men after their first surprise did not resent the new order of things. 'Hello, how did you come here?" they askc! wlten H woman first came scrambling up along- side them. But very soon they ceased to be surprised. She was there, and what was more, she proved herself an uncom-rionlr uncom-rionlr good fellow; and the man, to his surprise, found the amazing happening B quite a pleasant thing after all. H Tho ranging alongside has Its advan- tages all round, and not only In the mat-icr mat-icr of sport, for If man used to take, his diversions In Isolation like a god he also had I" bear ;tl the burdens on his magnl- r . -'.t shoulders, in those days there was nothing a woman could do to earn her -iiy.'-jH bread, except to he an inefficient govern- H ess. Nowadays she has a thousand ac- tlvlties. and while men arc found to grumble becauso woman Is become a H working woman, how many masculine 'JS'y : a shoulders does that lighten of their bur- den? One wonders what used to happen when the bread-winner was snatched H away In the old genteel, helpless days. rOI'jH The Result of Brotherhood. To be sure, woman In electing to work H nr.d to play with man, has torn away H some of the pretty mystery in which he H tsed to adore her at a distance very COn- H ti ntcdl . lie has found out that she does not faint and .scream any longer. He has 1 i Idea of her being a china vessel to his clumsy earthenware She may hold her husband and her children H bv another, a stronger tenure, than that Of an appealing helplessness but the man In the railway car will not give her 1 his seat. He will not rise, at least not H willingly, whether six; be young and pret- H ty, or old and infirm. He scowls at her when she comes In his overcrowded cur. H suspecting her of an expectation that he H will rise, while she hopes sincerely that H hn will not. He sits, a whole row of him, HjaHjrB ii ib ci-uagiy soowllng. for In ins heart H he Is a hit ashamed of himself ami bo HngH hapea thai some other fellow will offer 'Ills seat, If no other fellow docs he ma) H rise ami offer it with an appearance of HB& temper which makes it more unpleasant H l'.r the woman than If he had k p Id I HH a at. For this is one ot tho things that . r happen when woman becomes a woman and a brother rather than a woman and a sister. However, she can put so-many advantages advan-tages to the account of her ranging alongside along-side iht she endures such sllcht draw, hacks; although she does not nke them but Illogical io the st. desires :t chlvnlrv U well ,i- equality, which Is a cmtr idl.--tlon In terms, I never knew of any wo man except one and she was an American journalist, and was. i believe, playing to the gallery of her F.ngllsh sisters who d!d not desire that seat in the rallwav carriage. Which Is to sav that Woman would still eat her cake and have It. aii Right Reserved. |