| Show l t i f 1 X H J t ME N TO F E S S 0 a aL If ti y L j Ii j P TO 11 h esies eSleS r R t JOHN LANGDON DAVIES F k t v. v f 11 J r R c Instead o of the e Old Phrase rase Fk F tw S 4 r 1 Y ir a a a Womans Woman's Place ace Is s the e Home 9 k t E k k I We Shall Soon Have a New One i- i k i f yr yran Mans Man's an s Place aces Is His is ice an ano and They Will Be Mere Robots o s for forthe ay y r the e Convenience o of Their ear d. d y J Lady a Loves oves Y y y y d va o h A iq 4 t d dr v s. s H y J A Az v r FO Ly 43 to 4 z r r a f N n 2 i r r e V Tomorrows Tomorrow's s 1 I 3 f t hi i r J Q Queen 1 4 J X 1 It TEN X It MEN EN W will i 11 be the t I I i slaves of women John Langdon Langdon Langdon-Davics Davics English his his- historian r j a averred v err e d Mr Langdon Langdon- tori torian an and anthropologist traces the a gy D Davies as he drew a word word- feminine sex from dim beginnings gs s Y a P picture 0 of f I t the he h e f future WI with th to modern times and predicts f 1 womans woman's ultimate mastery over man woman the queen and man t worker His V merely a place Americas America's accomplishments In the more will be the factory and the theoffice serious realms of finance science and In Invention in- in ti office olice where he will work j r The fact he said that American y ax for woman womans woman's s comfort while women are showing s their sisters the world r round that the they can remain young that f full ull 11 and d she h will 11 enjoy a u an s enJoy k I e. e WI be in r. r physically and mentally they can By Ll Lillian I 1 han Ian G. G G Genn enn Wf f varied life their u prime e even when they they have v grand grand- r I f IA STARTLING but fascinating future is predicted for women and by no less lass an authority than John Langdon-Davies Langdon the English historian These are some Borne of the highlights Women will the men and make them convenient robots for their pleasure For centuries centuries cen- cen f women were the goats but now there is every t indication that they will turn the tables on the men Men l will be the slaves of women Instead of the once-hackneyed once phrase a a womans woman's place is her home there will be a new one a a mans man's place is his office While men will be confined to their offices women will willbe willi i be out in the world enjoying a full and varied life Already they are engaging in many activities which are bro broadening dening their visions vision and stimulating their minds Women will dominate the arts and literature They will establish literary salons to encourage talent They will organize social institutions and they will discover discover dis dis- cover new human relationships Once women gain complete emotional and moral freedom there is no telling to what heights they will climb For without nature as their foe women are easily the stronger strong r sex M f THESE HESE interesting views should make every man sit up and look to his nis laurels for the ideas Mr 11 Langdon-Davies Langdon offer are the result of scientific study I Since he has specialized in history r and anthropology and has written A Short History of Women in r which he traces the study of the feminine sex from the dim beginnings beginnings' beginnings beginnings' begin begin- until modern times he is t. t e equipped quipped to discuss their development develop develop- ement ment and possibilities Mr Langdon-Davies Langdon is a tall hu good mored man with so youthful and engaging engaging ing a manner th that t one would take him to be a yo your z college man rather than a 1 x historian of prominence and the father of two sons Mr Langdon-Davies Langdon was educated educated at Tonbridge School and at St. St Johns John's College College College Col Col- lege Oxford where he held the Sir Thomas White Scholarship in modern t history as well as three other scholarships scholarships scholar scholar- r ships and exhibitions Owing to war wart t conditions he proceeded at once to postgraduate postgraduate postgraduate post post- graduate work in anthropology and psychology psychology psychology gaining certificates in cultural I and physical anthropology i r When visited at the hotel where he was making his home he he told the interviewer 4 that his purpose in coming to America each year was not only to lecture but butmore butmore butmore more particularly to study the American woman It It Is In Russia and In America h he e t. t J L Lc W I c r. r it J 2 b tJ b a r. r rH x r Ya r w t i kw wi y I 6 Ka ri YC d ft tf Hercules at the Feet of painted by J. J E. E Danton depicts the mythical Greek Greel heros hero's servitude sen to the Lydian Princess whom he was forced to serve for three years ears at the command of the gods for slaying This Princess won her power by decree but the modern woman is gaining her ascendancy over man by her broader mentality according to Langdon-Davies Langdon said sad that one can find indications of what the woman of tomorrow will be like By studying the women of these two countries one can obtain sufficient facts with t which to foretell the roles that men and women will play in the future Perhaps the thing that is most strIking striking striking ing and significant in America is that the men no longer have the leisure or orthe orthe orthe the Inclination for culture When I go goon goon on a lecture tour the men ar ar- ar conspicuous ous by their absence Man after man I have met has told me that he doesn't get a chance to read or do anything else because his office ta takes tes all of his time He is always sure though that that his wife can discuss any of the books of the day It is very likely that with wiLh this greater leisure on the part of women and their Increasing desire for culture something interesting may develop in the future The situation resembles one that existed in the twelfth century when men were Wholly absorbed in war and in the tournaments tournaments tournaments tour- tour and preferred them to tJ the soci soci- society society ety of women or to the purs pursuit it of cul cul- cul ture It was the women who gave their attention to the finer things of life and more educated Naturally Naturally Naturally Nat Nat- who were generally and they found the men boring dull They could speak of nothing but j war It was at that time that the troubadours troubadours troubadours trou trou- became popular The women women re regarded regarded regarded re- re them as a relief from the men whose one and only thought was war and horses fC you you TOU can see that today we have a aJ J- J similar situation in this country except except except ex ex- ex- ex that it is business which absorbs the men Writers lecturers and poets have with as a consequence become popular the women who find them a relief from the men in business offices Since the women have the financial means to do as they like and are well educated and since too they are more alive emotionally and Imaginatively they are bound to bring about a great change in life lite First of all the men being subjected sub sub- subjected to the discipline of present business business business busi busi- ness methods must become as a group less Interested In life and more concerned with making a livelihood In the course of time they will become more mechanical and less imaginative They will become more concerned with things and less with people What will happen then Women will continue the process of Ing the men until they become nothing more or less than convenient robots The women will find new human relation relation- ships They will dominate the arts and literature They will reorganize social institutions As for the male human being he will find himself hidden and forgotten beneath a lot of artificial traits which will make him most useful to his wife There is nothing it seems to me that can stop this process unless we no longer educate women and get them to give up the use of birth control neither control neither of which seems possible Women could never hope to attain real equality with the men so long as nature made them pay the penalty for emotional freedom Men had a strong ally in nature nature nature na na- na- na ture and the women even with with political political and economic fr freedom edom could only play a secondary role In life Ufe u UT once women enjoy the same BUT D emotional freedom as the men and they use their intellects and their reasons as fully as the men they will eventually dominate For women without nature as their enemy are Indeed the stronger sex They possess a greater singleness of purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose and a greater fund of Imagination than the men and they easily will be beable beable beable able to them Women today are already showing showing- that they are more than well equipped t to compete compete compete com com- pete with men in the business and pro pro- pro pro- 0 world Until now they were relegated relegated relegated rel rel- rel- rel to a parasitic role in life not be because because because be- be cause nature willed It but because the themen themen themen men having hating the upper hand for forced ed the women to become dependent upon them even going so far as to Imprison their In Intellectual Intellectual intellectual In- In energy As a result the clinging type of woman was evolved The women prior to the dawn of this century were uneducated their manner and their lives were unnatural their morality morality morality mo mo- mo- mo was false and their modesty was false They were expected to do only one thing in life please life please the men If Ifa Ifa Ifa a woman wanted to get anything she was taught to capitalize her femininity Tears and weakness coy looks and smiles and her physical charms were the weapons she had to use to gain her ends And so if the men today find that the modern modem business woman still tries to se secure secure secure se- se cure advantages solely on what we now call can sex appeal they have no right to complain The men were the ones who taught her how to trade on it it Mr Langdon-Davies Langdon later HOWEVER brought out in the discussion that he does not think it tt t is at all a bad idea for forthe forthe forthe the woman to use sex appeal in business Providing of course it is of the legitimate legitimate legitimate mate kind he added For that matter It would be to the advantage of men if they too were to play up their sex ap appeal appeal ap- ap peal After all when we come down t. t it what does it mean to make the most of ones one's sex appeal It is merely that one tries to make oneself as charming and as as' as attractive as possible Certainly It Is a pleasure to work with people who are al always always always al- al ways doing their best to please you Of course I am not speaking now of the type who may be a poor stenographer or office worker but who because of her relations with her boss is able to hold on onto onto onto to her job The person who employs that kind of appeal has no place in the business business busi busl- ness world My sympathy is not even with the man who falls a victim to such sucha a cheap sort of allurement fo fo- foI I believe that any man who Is intelligent and mature mature mature ma ma- ture In every way should have enough strength of character to resist it or to meet it with proper weapons of hu hiv own If It he rant cant he still longs to his mothers mother's apron strings He Is not fit as yet to go out Into the world However I dont don't have to tell the women anything about playing up their their- sex appeal They are already past mistresses mistresses mistresses mis mis- tresses in the art of making themselves as attractive and as interesting as pos pos- sible And as if if that is not enough the American women are arc out to capture perennial perennial perennial per per- youth as well Mr Langdon-Davies Langdon believed that the amazing youth of the American woman isas is isas isas as great a contribution to the world as j 4 1 i a children is as wonderful as any discovery S that has ever b been en made Just consider that until comparatively a few years ago by the time a woman was 30 she had lost her youth and beauty and by 35 she was old When she was 40 she had about served about served her usefulness in this world The men on the other hand kept their vigor and mental alertness until far farbe be beyond ond that age cc NOT OT only were their wives unable to hold their interest for very long or orbe orbe orbe be companions to them in any sense of the word but also from flom the viewpoint of humanity a great waste occurred in feminine feminine femi tem nine lives A woman lived only half of her life The ether half she tottered on the edge of the grave When she had completed the task of raising her children and they were mature she was then too old to derive any enjoyment from life lUe Today in th this country you cannot tell ten i ithe the age of a woman anywhere from 16 to 45 It is a pretty fascinating business trying trying trying try try- ing to guess whether you are talking to a flapper or a grandmother the historians historian's eyes twinkled Just yesterday in fact I 1 was sitting here in the hotel watching a group of very chic and youthful-looking youthful women Imagine my surprise when as they drew nearer I overheard one of them say Ive just packed my granddaughter of off to boarding school I 1 recently returned from Spain where I have been living for the last few months and there I think you can find the most beautiful young 1 omen en in the world Ive I've traveled everywhere and I have never seen such rich gorgeous beauty y as the year old gins girlS possess At about 20 they marry and after that their beauty quickly fades Physically Physically cally calli and mentally they begin to go to seed They have not as yet learned the American womans woman's trick of combining na nature nature nature na- na ture and art They do not exercise their minds or their bodies They know nothing about diet It It is a great pity to see them becoming becoming becoming becom becom- ing settled and old before their time Of Of course It Isn't only due to the fact t lat they do not know how to take care of themselves but that too they have so many children A family of off fourteen or more is not uncommon in Spain The tragedy of it is is though that they lose more than a quarter of these children through death In America parents and children are chums The mothers are even taken as assisters assisters assisters sisters of their daughters They buy their clothes together read books together and andare andare are real pals Not only are they physically young but what is more important their spirits are young I only hope that in time this countrywide countrywide country country- wide urge for yo youth th on the part of American Amer Amer- ican scan women will become world-wide world for forit forit it cannot but have a great and beneficial effect on the world Copyright by bu Public Ledger r I i iy r r y |
