Show F Flirtation Doomed W Will ill Become Lost Art Future Girl Will Propose Says Prof I Binder r Eminent Sociologist Also Asserts We Have Never Yet Had Had Monogamy in Any Society Society So So- Although Many any Women and Some Men Practice It The Popularity of the Bachelor Maid Is on the Wane MARGUERITE MOOERS WOOERS MARSHALL Man was the original butterfly and he still flits from flower fower to flower We e have never yet had monogamy In any society The gay ay deceiver whether masculine masculine line Uno or feminine Is doomed to extinction tion and flirtation will wi become a a lost art rt I IThe The popularity of ot the bachelor maid maidla Is la on the wane wane To Fo o win the husband of her choice woman already does everything except propose In the future she ahe will wi do that that and that and and I see no reason why hy she Those Thole are a few tew of or the things that Prof Prof Ru Rudolph olph M. M Binder Ph Ih D. D sees and says about the way of ot aman n a man with wih a maid and vice versa For Fora Fora a a. a number of ot years yean Professor Binder has hag occupied the chair of ot sociology at New rew York university and he ho has made madea madea a a special study stud of tho the Institution of oC marriage In Its Is social and Individual reactions Many Ian of ot his lectures have dealt deat with marl marriage e. e divorce orco dl and the fa family m I and amid the oter day before the tho Women's oens Republican club dub he defined length at tho time extremely Important part w woman an has ha played In tho the development de nt or of on m Please note that word ord development It For Professor Binder admits with wih admirable ad admirable ad- ad mirable frankness that no 10 trul truly monogamous monog- monog mono mono- amous society he has ever er yet jet exl existed Were ere not It of ot course coure and e the pious te assumption that tha w we Wa are no Is merely the hom honing Ic le pays to virtue homage U e now rising to cover U the discord Ant Interruptions ant of 01 two tragedies In th the th news Man to Blame And nd who's to o blame Who but bul our flow flower to flou flow to r friend Mr Man H Hr He was Wa born with a taste for or variety Dr Binder concedes but that's that'll no reason why he shouldn't control it We Ve are arc Just now living In a natural world explained tho the professor but butIn butin butin in a I world adjusted and controlled b by manThe manThe manThe man The town man n dr drags s In nature nature na nature na- na ture as a justification for tor his yielding to polygamous Instincts If lf l he ho were strictly logical in his desire to live ac according according ac ac- cording to natural laws he ho would strip off his broadcloth fly f from from rom his steam steam- heated telephone connected c apartment p and tel settle t down ei In or the woods to tr subsist sub on nuts nul and berries and clothe himself with wih the thc skins of wild wid beasts That child of ot nature may nizy obey the law of ot nature nature Tho Tha child of oC civilization tion ton must accept Its Ie laws lawe And An our laws prescribe monogamy ian Many it Absolute women F monogamy and 0 some men would practice settle 1 a large lage number of ot social questions So liberal a a thinker as H Herbert rb rt Spencer Spen Spen- said that In the end monogamy must triumph by the tho 1 law a. a of oC the survival cur sur tur- tur vival vivA I of ot the tho fittest He didn't speak from an or religious Ious point of view but simply on the ground of oC efficiency He foresaw that no other system would work so eo well wel for tor so so- so And I believe bleve that tha tho the woman of ot the future with wih tho the American woman as leader will turn the theor theory the the- cry ory or of ot marriage Into fact tact Then you OU dont don't agree with wih General Miles res sand and od others who agee prophesy 3 that polygamy will wl be b practiced openly and recognized officially In Europe after the war I observed red Professor Binder smilingly shook his head hend For a time there may be a certain amount of ot Irregularity he ho conceded as there thero Is at t present and as there has ha be been n in the tho past But In the first place I discount the threatened dearth tnt of ot men in Europe This war wont won't be b a thirty years years' war And though the casualties are ae frightful the they are aro less les than In the past Thousands of wounded men arc back at the front Jn n a few weeks week Thou Thousands and hundreds hun hun- of thousands will 1 return to their hom homes s when the fighting Is over But nut even If I tho the war makes the number number num num- ber of or mon men too to small to go 0 around the women wilt will wi not stand for or practical cal cat matrimony The modern woman prefers A it whole job to half a husband And she Is la no longer compelled to tal take o the latter later Instead of oC the former True Love Favors One ManTho ManTho Man Tho The woman who Insists on the tho single standard of oC morality who does docs not tolerate other women In her husbands husband's hus hue bands band's p past t. t will wi certainly not accept tho the polygamous relation and In favor of ot th the one man woman one arrangement ar ar- ar- ar Tho The woman who ho regards love lovo as 1 something other than physical satisfaction the woman with fineness of spirit and delicacy o of sentiment nt I In the sworn t foe to of 01 plural or group roup mar mar- And then Professor Binder outlined d that highly Interesting biological theory the theory ory which makes Eve antedate dm Adam Instead of the other way around The first tint life principle was C female fe ft male he declared But But to Introduce introduce Intro intro- duce a variable element element element rale make the mot of oC that equivocal tribute mere man man the the malo male principle was WM cre cre Biologically man was a seeker after variety That's no excuse for tor him tOI today however hoever Nature should bo be the servant of ot man not his mistress His s ability to anJo dominate r lt ISh her determines his rise In the scale Nature says eys bluntly Have a lot lol of ot children Civilization says sal's Children should bo be born br under that system most adequate for tor their care and education The Tho woman who loves her child with the love that Is not merely animal animal ani aid mal trial desires desire to give it a tat fathers father's hers her's protection pro pro- lecton and teaching That Is one reason wh why most women havo have been on the side of oC the monogamous re reIa relationship relationship re- re Ia Then woman oman Is a a natural hero- hero worshipper Back In the e cave e days she Idealized Je the tho ho strongest e man with f the strongest club Ares Ages es later Inter sho cal came cameto to value the quality of oC kindness In lit men there men there are arc ar women even oven now whose worship l Is reserved for brutal strength Instinctively cly she 4 4 the father and protector of ot her thud chIM and nn the hero of ot her dreams shall bo ho one That Is If she wants to mat marry for life Ifo the one man mn whom sho she selects as h her r Ideal She does dol the tho selecting you ou think I I Interposed Of tOt course coure she ehe doe dO smiled c Professor Profs Profs- sor Binder She does docs everything ex except ex- ex I t the actual proposing e We men think hr le we do It all Ir but we f dont dot The Tho I future woman will wi undoubtedly lr propose 1110 pro I pose and I s see e no earthly reason wh why she fhe shouldn't Most men would be 1 glad Iad to have her relieve them of oC tho the job Its It's the Its the Its Its the professor stammered stammered stam stain snored and nn bit his lips lips its Its a terribly embarrassing experience Since Sinco youre you're re o not nol a man you cant can't realize Realization Is evidently fresh In Professor Binder He Ho was married not so long ago I I 1 have known of oC several most de desirable desirable desirable de- de unions he lie hurried on which hung fire just because ause the tho man was too sh shy to bring himself to tho point and a 1 last lingering convention bound the girl to silence Evidently you jou OU dont don't share In the t fear some have express expressed d that thal the woman of oC the future will wi do without men and marriage I shifted away awny from the hearted faint taint Romeos Patting Passing of Bachelor Girl The bachelor girl craze Is already alread waning said sad the professor protessor wisely I 1 have havo taught for years In a ed co-ed coeducational co ed orations University and I meet man many of ot my students socially T Ten Tn n y v years Women Will Wil Not Not Stand for Fractional Matrimony Matrimony Matrimony Matri Matri- mony mony the Modern Woman Woman Woman Wo Wo- Wo- Wo man man Prefers a Whole Job ob to Half Hal a Husband Most Men Would Be Glad to Have Women Relieve Them of the Job of Proposing hgo the college graduate duato often proclaimed proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed that she didn't want to be both bothered r tI with men nd ud that she never Intended to Jo to get married Today IChe If IC she he has his his' stuck to her resolution sh Is usually sorry She feels fees that something something some some- thing has been missed out of her loThe life lo The woman who seems to have e turned arid and nd Is against marriage men It I only a symptom of ot a n period of oC tran transition Iran tran from old Ideals of oC marriage to now new ones Tho woman of oC the future will wi man marry but she will vili ho able to do what ever every girl has vainly dreamed of doing she doing sho she will wi be able lo to lo watt walt till tilt her Prince Charming comes along The worst handicap of time the woman movement toward monogamy and the single st standard h is the I hs woman n who Innocently IO or otherwise ilci desires the attention of or several se men atthe at atthe t the same samo time She may ma mabe be a a t professional professional siren or an amateur flirt rrt In neither Instance Is la she the normal monogamous motherly woman But nut she will wi go SO just as s the Ia masculine flirt rrt will go 0 for the very ery simple reason that she she- Iho will wi refuse to propagate pop gate hereU her- her eU eit It I is an ethical law la that you mustn't make mako makes s of or another person simp simply to satisfy a want of ot your OUr own That In Is Itself 1 disposes of the time double standard But the practical enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment o of the single standard lies les In Inthe Inthe the time hands of oe modern women and particularly of oC American The They ire are neither toys toS nor beasts of or burden They hive h the love a admiration and respect of their men memo Even E the tho divorce court to which the n American wife re resorts resorts re- re sorts Is often ofen a sign that her ber dignity and self respect will wi not permit her to tolerate wrongs the Europ European n wife meek meekly accepts By educating her sons and daughters daughters daugh daugh- according to nn an Identical standard of oC the purity American woman may make the American Amerian marriage a model for or th the Test rest of ot the tho thO world orM |