Show BREAKS CONVENTIONS WOMEN LOVE BBS BES By HELEN VELS IER I dont don't care who his grandfather was if a man doesn't take off his hat in an elevator I dont don't like itt The elevator may be in the senatorial building or a dime store but I don dont don't t think a hat has any business on a mans man's head when a woman is ista ta taking a ride too o Old fashioned Outmoded Extravagant waste of time Of course it is Maybe that's why I like it After all there has to be some foolish memento of the days when women were accorded special privileges s. s New Society Those men who got together down in Washington the other day and decided to add another alphabetical society to the new deal liSt were serious about the right hand movement which removes a hat when a woman enters an elevator The newspapermen and congressmen who are arc the society's society s organizers organizers organ organ- themselves Association for the Prevention izel's are callin calling the of Taking Off Hats in Elevators Lots of women are arc saying its it's a good thing because they have had their eyes blackened when a derby or a slouch hat came off I like men who open doors for women too I like men who seat women at the table I even like to hear men ask if they may smoke although they know of course they may And Im I'm very very fond of men who give up their seats scats In Inthe Inthe Inthe the subway to strange women I dont don't know any men like that though I could like them I mean if I ever met any Want Vant Advantage Women may say that they want to be treated just like men They dont don't They want to be treated with all the advantages advantages advantages ad ad- ad- ad vantages that m men n have and then supplied with another full set because they are women Most of us dont don't admit it until something absurd like the hats on movement comes along to waken us Certainly there are certain social conventions that are superfluous superfluous superfluous super super- in business offices An executive who arose every time his secretary entered to bring him a brief or take a letter might be a nice man but he would be an awful fool If he crossed the room to open open the door for her every time she left his presence he would be putting his steps together and look for a job one of these days J Attitude Inconsistent 4 1 But that matter of hats There is no rio earthly reason why a man should uncover hi ij h head ever in the presence of a woman She is just hu human an being and goodness knows she has tried hard to jump down from her pedestal and play some real ten tenni i The trouble is that she wants to keep the ball in in her own cot coti all the time She feels as though she is something specia when a man even a headed bald-headed grandfatherly man whom sh nh never will see again in any elevator removes his hat just be because because because cause she is going along on the elevator journey j j Women want to be placed on a a parity with men they s Yet t they ey resent it when they are arc What they really desire is t be given a place on an upper platform Anyway f I like men who remove their hats in elevators elevator hope the association gets tangled in its own letters Im I'm not tak tai ing off oU my hat to it 1 |