Show Novelist Regrets Womans Woman's Loss of f Charm and Poise x i MARGARET BANNING The liThe Wom n of tile the Family Illustrates Mrs Bannings Banning's Ban Ban- flings ning's Contention By HORTENSE SAUNDERS N NEA EA Service Writer NEW NEV YORK Jan There I-There was never a time In history when women wo- wo men had so much beauty and so little charm according to Margaret Banning author Says she Beauty Beau Is a drug on the market So too are spectacular spectacular ular feminine women careers who can fIght their own way and pay their own women checks Who can I hold their own in arguments and burst into print about their emotions emotions emo- emo women experiences women 1 who vho can do everything but fascinate fasci- fasci nate men men Where she asks asks asks' Is the er the woman who wh could could launch launch I a thousand ships ships-or even one In discovering themselves getting getting get get- ting the vote being modern J and uninhibited Mrs Banning believes women have lost something in the shuffle that Is infinitely more precious precious pre pre- cious than some independence essential es- es quality of loveliness some potent lure that brought men to their feet NERVOUS AND IRRITABLE QuIte fearlessly Mrs 1 Banning who is a prominent club woman In Duluth and Intensely interested in politics as well as In writing went back to Vassar college her own alma mater and accused college women of being lacking In charm Women lack poise she says They have become fighters They argue too mucK much and resist too tenaciously ten ten- They arEt overly conscientious conscientious about nervous living and Irritable Ir- Ir about it I They take their bumps hard and are constantly on the for more like fearsome riders They are glittering and hard shrill and articulate but In their frantic getting they have lost the art of accepting gracefully and letting men do things Mrs Banning questions our handling handling han han- of husbands fathers and sweethearts The truth Is we dont don't need men menas menas as we we once did for support companionship corn com or leadership We Ve have practically red reduced ced man to a and that Is less obligatory atory than it was once with women wo we- men makIng as much money as men Tactlessly we sl show ow men how unnecessary they are and drIve them from us Some day there will willbe be a completely different type of man to deal with one that may not be nearly so and generous generous gener- gener ous as today's model and it willbe will be our own fault While we were finding ourselves we lost our lov- lov ers era While we were too busy to tobe tobe be charming and lovable we lost the art If the modern woman is disillusioned she begs us to remember that women probably have been disillusioned disIllusioned dis- dis in ages before but they were a bit more sporty about It And men are even more disillusioned jima han we wa are she laughed particularly the young men They probably yearn for the glamorous woman who had charm and grace even though she may hawe haie lacked the brilliancy and surface wit of the modern women PROVE BY FICTION Mrs Banning recently wrote it nove The Women of the Family In which she showed how a highly heroine was practically wrecked when she found herself unable to hold her husband She believes that the woman who gets ets everything she wants by her own hard efforts and struggles finds when It is too late that she would rather be loved and cherished and supported While she does not ot want to see and certainly does riot not expect to see see women go o back backo to o the Victorian type she does believe belove be- be love lieve women should not make theIr progress at the expense of their harm charm and their power over men she sacrifice Why queries what has always given us out our greatest pleasure |