Show I THE SAYINGS OF J I MRS SOLOMON Now my my m daughter there dwelt In Sodom bodom a woman who yearned to meet Interesting people and mid to walk in Ih the paths of pleasant sant companionship companionship- And lo 10 she w wandered down Into Greenwich village seeking comfortI comfort and light and set up her tents Inthe inthe In ln the midst of the elect l ct I But But when they had sized her up they theIr shrugged th their ir shoulders and I turned Primly away heir th their tr faces whispering Iser saying Horrors And likewise horn of a purle cow What an old fashioned person I t Yea she is antediluvian 11 For verily verily verily she still sUll believeth be be- in the antiquated institution Uon of t marriage and the obsolete emotion of of love and the q quaint bid custom of ot dining with her own husband at 6 G o clock O'clock She hath prostituted art before mammon and poetry for for- money and h her l' l h husband band to support her Moreover she free tree versa verse free speech free love free board and ana anci I Freud Yea she is a back number I And And with soft sort ha has ther turned their backs upon her and would none llone of ot herAnd her And when she perceived that sh she was out of the picture the woman departed departed de de- de- de parted sorrowfully and sought a dwelling In Flatbush far from th the madding But lo 10 when the neighbors' neighbors had looked her over they closed their doors and lifted up their hands crying cryIng crying cry- cry Ing Take Taka her For she that haUl hath come ome among us is an m advanced woman wo wo- mart man Go to She hath loath theories on f feminism fern fem m- m and economic equality and divorce and eugenics and nd new flew thought Moreover her skirts are 5 exceeding short and her complexion is not con con- Verily VernY verily she la is is too racy an radical for us And nd again the woman folded he helf hei tents and departed for Broadway and the land of ot cabarets in search of ot congenial congenial congenial con con- genial companionship But when she had come among them therm the fox fox- trotters fox trotters nd the merrymakers merrymaker regarded her coldly and with much amazement murmuring Dear dear How did she get In ml For she careth not for dancing an 5 at a n Jazz band and sh sha not one vintage from an- an other Behold how Puritanical are re her ways and how Victorian her clothes lothes o l she of Emerson Emerso and of and and which of these Is Is- Isa a shoe and which is a sausage Verily verily she Is too deep for us usi sl But when the woman cama came unto me weeping and complaining that nobody nobody nobody no no- body loved her and the world was cold L I only mocked her saying Get thee to a museum my daughter daughten daugh daugh- ter ten For thou art the only specimen of thy kind still left Yea thou be under glass with the the- res rest of the curiosities For alas thou art only a NORMAL NORl WO WOMAN rAN And verily verily thou art obsolete In a w world and an age like this Selah |