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Show THEY THINK WE'RE PRETTY BAD i V'-i '-i" Men Disgusted By Screwy Hats,-Too Hats,-Too Much Paint By MARION YOl'Ntl They don't Ilka our makeup, and they detest our hata. Our voices annoy them, and they think we nov-oe have learned to- use perfume Intelligently. They dislike tha way we run like sheep after each new clothes fad, and every hut male of them deapiaea ecarlet nail polish. All except ex-cept the fat onea (who ceres what they think, euiyway?) hale reducing diet conversations, and all except those over 0 object to kittenish mannerlsma, bdtpy talk and simpering- Again! Makeup These, my fellow sufferers, are Just a few of the charming little answers X got when 1 asked discerning dis-cerning males about town, "What do you dislike about women?" To a man they shout loudly against the vogue for dead white faces and scarlet lips. If this lesds you to think that they go overboard In favor of rouge and all you have to do to stand In la use a little on your cheeks, you have another think coming. They like rouge, but they don't Ilka the way we put It on. And they are as dead set againat lavish use of the stuff as againat tha Idea of discarding discard-ing It entirely. Mascara Waves them quite cold. They wish they could pass a law against eyebrow tweeting. They ae absolutely no excuse for eve- ski i i i- is 11 ii n i ii On topi of frou-frou droit with fur, frills and toe) low ncllin. sh put necklace, brclh, clip, rings in fact R th glittering, gadgets sh could lay hands on. Than sh added toolest sandals through which game-stockinged tcerlet toonialt pp, blood rd nail polish and prtty silly hir-do. And hr omployar doesn't like it. Look t his face. Ninety pee cent of th menyou know feel th tamo wy about overdressing. shadow. Ho bitter are they on the aubject of false eyelashes that severs I wouldn't even answer Just glared! Why Meat Leave Reafauranta A' few of tha kindlier kept their head and tried to explain that, from a masculine point of view, underdreaaing la aa bad aa overdressing. over-dressing. They oan't atand a woman wo-man who ahowa up for lunch dripping drip-ping with sliver fox. wesring Jewels, Jew-els, perfume and a decidedly formal afternon hat. but neither oan they stand one who breesea in In a sweater and skirt and flat-heeled shoe. They are embarrassed, therefore there-fore annoyed, by anything (except natural beauty) which draw all eye to their table. They don't want to be stared at by other eaters, they don't. Which brings ua right up to squeaky and rasping voices that can be heard over the orchestra and which are all attention-getting, too. Th majority would have most of us take vole lessons, learn to modulate. Once they get our voire toned down or aoftened or something, they would have ua us them less. Yes, we talk too much, tha boya isay. They advocate a roursa in ' how to listen Intelligently. And, ' to them, an intelligent listener Is ' one who doesn't watch for a chance ; to take peraonally every remark in 1 a general converaatlon. , . Ducheaae lender tha Wths "Why," said a lawyer, "It'a lm-, lm-, possible to discuss Britsh royalty i without soma woman in the group ! telling her long-auffering husband , that ahe'a aura he doesn't love her , aa much aa the Duke lovea Wallls i Warfleld." , "Just make a simple remark . about th effect weather has on i people's dispositions and, sure as I you'r born, some female will tell you all about her temperament, rain or shine," said another. An artist think mode and manner man-ner of motion pletur stars and other celebrities have a pernicioua Influence on modern women, especially espe-cially younger ones who ars slightly stax atruck. nisi hour to carry on trivial eon-veraations. eon-veraations. Also wives who discuss houaehold bills before dinner or before be-fore breakfast. Roater of Revolt Little details you'd never dream men would notice were commented on during tha majority of tha interviews. inter-views. They all hale dirty shoulder shoul-der straps, slips which show below hemlines, rough handa and wrinkled clothaa. but they notice Just as much dust on hats, powder on necklines of dark dresaes, nails which are too long and too pointed bad posture, flecks of dandruff on the hair. Also that heavy perfume is pretty deadly if poured in with a lavish hand and Wave Make Him Hick An executive, sitting behind a huge giaaa-top desk in a skyscrap-. skyscrap-. er office, objects to hair which , looks as If It hadn't been combed aince tha hairdresser worked on It. i "I'd rather have my eerretary . ask for time off to go to a beauty I shop tHan to dash out on her lunch i hour, get a quickie, then run back t with her head covered with cork-. cork-. screw curia and waves that appear , to he stuck down with mucilage." Gossamer aheer stockings for t business are anathema to antoher executive. The younger executive In th adjoining ad-joining office hates wives who telephone tele-phone their husbands during busi- that a womsn who doesn't use perfume per-fume at all, and doesn't like it, is likely to be none too fussy about her appearance or to be bossy and domineering. domi-neering. Each and every one voiced at least two complaints about details de-tails of this type. Only two cynics refused to answrr "because criticism would not do women any good. They never listen to anything except tha sound of their own voices." And one only one gallant gentleman gen-tleman had no grievances. "What do I disllk about women?" he mused. "Only on thing. There aren't enough of them." (P. S.: I've asked him to marry me.) |