| Show T Tyres yra Kleen Discovers e the Orchid Woman City Product in New mew Yorks York's Garden of Girls I a A J S 'S F I e Tie Orchid roman F is- is r the e product uc of vi m. m and aud zinc 4 c i e 4 y nor C start J i 4 be fit a a Jail s i 1 w the k art n l I hue I i rP y i r 1 She Is the Woman Made Useless seless by Civilization and Wealth Like the Orchid She Has Beauty Without Charm Even the Lines of Her Body Are Unnatural Artist and Writer Who Has Toured the World Finds Find American Women Have Most Freedom but Are Most Womanly of All Man as B Beautiful as Woman and All Cubists Should Be in Jail By NIXOLA NIKOLA SMITH GREELEY By Til The n. T Telegrams Telegram's I ams am's News Sonic NEW YORK Dec I 1 9 I have studied women of all peoples and of ot all classes all over the world I have lived years in Paris other years ears earsin earsin in London Rome Home and Vienna 3 I have I been in HrH u and in tn Ceylon in in China and Japan This is Is' Is Ismy my my first visit to the United States SUites I have been here since Wednesday and I say to you that American women are the freest on the globe glob globe and and and they are undo undoubtedly the most womanly women as well Miss Tyra ryra Kleen author artist and feminist of Sweden smiled at me across across a laden book table in her room In the hotel Kotel McAlpin and added qui quickly quickly quick quick- kly k- k ly I r do o not mean by womanly what a aman aman aman man understands by the w word rd She continued in the faultless English so so many Scandinavians learn to speak I What a man calls a womanly woman is in reality a most manly type be because I be-I cause that mere mer echo of his brain that empty dish held up for him to fill with I the proper feelings is the most manly woman She has only the tile th thoughts u of men the qualities men prescribe for tor her Europe added Miss 1 Kleen profoundly profoundly profoundly pro pro- Is filled with manly women We have very ery few womanly women One of t them is my friend Ellen Key Women must be women continued Miss Kleen their own development must express their own natures without without without with with- out regard to men I believe beHave that American women come nearer to doing this than any other women Do you know that I prefer the women of In India India India In- In dia who are frankly creatures creatures- of the senses to the women of Europe who are Just as truly harem types but who pretend to be free But we have such women here too I said Women whose minds stay in Harems even while their feet take them to theatres and football games women who have pitied the women of China because their fe feet t were b bound und never realizing that their own skulls were just as tightly crushed to a f false lse ideal i of womanliness By the way I added remembering suddenly that Miss Kleen could speak interestingly as an artist as well as as a writer and feminist do doI you believe in beauty I Jail the Place for Cub Cubists ts and Futurists I 1 approach the subject But of ot beau beauty ty timidly nowadays because once not long igo go a French cubist told me that beautiful woman is the most roost Insipid in insipid insipid In- In thing on earth and the least worth painting Do I I believe In he beauty o What hat a question repeated Miss 1 Kleen indignantly indig indig- But Bu t the cubists the t th h futurists you OU know knowl I explained feebly The cubists and the should be in jail declared the young Swedish woman firmly in jails which the they have hae designed designe themselves Cubists are crazy and should be in prison she added Man Ian she continued Is quite as beautiful as woman only man has permitted permitted permitted per per- hi his senses to persuade him that woman is more beautiful than he On the other hand I objected womans womans wo mans man's senses might persuade her that manNo manNo manNo man man Miss Kleen interrupted No no her brain tells her what man wants her to think her senses what man wants her to feel that feel that is true of ot al aU all aUbut allbut but the very primitive and the very developed woman Between the savage and the superwoman who has risen above nationality and similar limitations limitations limitations limita limita- there is nothing worth considering considering consider consider- ing I One of your our pictures shows a frieze of women symbolized as orchids What Whai is the orchid woman Z I asked The woman made unnatural attenuated attenuated attenuated atten atten- by civilization and luxury She exists In all great cities I have seen many of her in New York She is a aI I decadent type what the French call i You have no exact word for tor torI her in English Even Een the lines of ot her hei I body are unnatural I do not like the orchid woman but civilizations civilization's great wealth produces her She is purely I decorative quite useless and without perfume or charm I prefer the low caste woman of Hindustan She at least is natural the artist ended Miss Tyra Tra Kleen who found this new application for the word manly is the daughter of a Swedish diplomatist who for years represented his country at the court of ot Vienna but is now a member of the institute of international al Si law and Miss Kleen told me drew up the law defining contraband of war Even as Nurses Women Should Not Stay in War Miss liss Kleen by the way was is a militant I pacifist I Does it not prove that the women 1 of ot Europe are manly that they help to keep up this frightful and cruel war by making she asked I r think the women of all countries should refuse to have anything to d do with war should refuse to be nurses even een If It the women had bad done this this this-if If they had declined to take the places of the themen themen men and do the work of the men the war would have ceased There would have been Deen no ammunition There would have been America I said Yes but your women too have nave set their faces against the making making making mak mak- ing of munitions by y neutral nations Miss Kleen replied You could have stopped it Do you not agree agree with me that it would have been a good thing to stop this war No I said I r dont don't For some time Ime I h have ve had the idea that the war which is bei being g fought in Europe Is is is' a war between the male and female principles prin of living between the instinct to give life and the instinct to take it itI I believe you know that dem democracy cracy Isa is isa isa a female ideal Even when man was lord of life and death deat over his wife and family the I mother mother- and eer children made a little democracy democracY mother protected the weak child child- and and asserted his equal rights with the stronger brothers and sisters Bisters- was the germ of the democratic principle All per cent cent males are Prussians All AU very ful men are Prussians in some degree I do not want to see the world Pruss Pruss- Women were the first Christians I added It was they who accepted most a religion a philosophy which protected the weak against the strong In a war of Christianity versus I do not think women omen should I be neutral I I I Mother Who Gave Sons to Country a Monster Women should preserve life at all all all' In Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- costs Miss Kleen replied many they boast of a mother who lost six sons in the war and said I 1 am sorry that I have not six MX more sons to give glye to my country They call her a heroine I think she is a monster I am really reany a neutral Miss Kleen added I s sympathize deeply with France and Belgium but I cannot help thinking that England is a great hypo hypo- crite She says she he is fighting for the little peoples but she has taken possession posses posses- sion slon of Greece and she Is starving Holland Holland Holland Hol Hol- I land and Sw Sweden den and Norway Noway by preventing their shipments from flom reachIng reaching reaching reach reach- ing neutral countries The wealth of Norway is in the fishing Yet ship after ship on its way to America is taken and the fishermen starve In Sweden it is the same I have not lived much in my country the young oung artist added wistfully The winters are too cold for me You spoke of knowing Ellen Key I r said ald Do you accept her ber doctrine that motherhood is the supreme right of woman 7 Yes Miss Kleen answered red hut tut I think the motherly principle may ay e espres ex- ex pres itself in art in books in m many forms besides beside the children I think does should that an any work a woman express motherhood should show pity and arid tenderness and understanding The great work Ellen K Key y did was to t teach women that to be emancipated is not to be imitation men Do you OU know added the young oung artist and etcher whose work has been compared with Dore and her blue eyes struck fire as she spoke poke Men say to me You work That is an In- In like Uke a ma man I answer Do not repeat it And so It isan is isan work k an Insult to tell ten a woman whose should express womanhood th that she works works like like a man If she d does then sho she is a failure and her work s not oes worth doing 1 L t i it 9 jl I t to |
