Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-05-27 | Page 14 | Ruth Millett Says- This Country Needs More Extra Women Around

Ruth Millett Says Says Says- Th This is Country Needs Morea More a Extra Women Around Wives are arc responsible for the fact that an extra woman at a party is looked on as a social catastrophe while catastrophe while an J extra man commands the respect of a millionaire If It on the day of a party a hostess finds herself with one more woman than men she is in a dither Frantically Frantically Frantically Fran Fran- she will telephone man after man trying to get one to be ube a dear and fill in Shell She'll even bully her husband husband hus bus band into bringing home a young man manfrom from the office She is that certain an and ani d i extra woman will kill the evenings evening's fun But on the other hand she likes nothing nothing noth noth- Yo ing better than finding that she will have more men than women present at atone t one of her affairs This attitude is so strong among married married married mar mar- ried women that they even treat old friends shabbily shabbily shabbily-if if the old friends happen happen hap hap- pen at the moment to be lone women Lunch is the best entertainment a lone Ruth woman can get out of a married friend This is one of the most stupid mistakes women make If they gave extra women a chance they might find to their delight that they do more to put across a party than does even the most attractive extra man t f. f A hostess can almost assume that the extra man will willI I I have no compunction about being late or not showing up at all if he doesn't feel like it She has no idea whether or not he will be dressed as he should She can almost count on his drinking too much getting getting get get- r ting off in a corner with the most attractive girl present C and doing nothing to make the party as a whole go Whereas almost any woman can be counted on to show up on time in her looking best-looking dress dres Also shell she'll probably leave sober sober sober-in in the meantime talking a little while with everyone present whether she likes them or not She will probably even do something about the shy guest sitting alone in jn a corner What this this- country needs is a little more respect for forthe forthe forthe the extra woman woman woman-a woman and and q a little less for the extra man