Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-05 | Page 13 | Portraits of the Women of 1917

PORTRAITS OF THE I I i L WOMEN OF 1917 II I I c cf I f 7 j VA x IL i When Whon woman was finally admitted to higher education the first discovery sho she made was that the tho world Is full of a number of interesting things beside mani 1 r mani 1 r man By Winona Wilcox THE COLLEGE GIRL I OMAN remains as she came W. W WOMAN from the Garden of Eden ex except cx- cx I ex-I for the development of I her mind Concerning this I mans man's chief dread has been that she J might grow too wise When he could no longer delay her higher education I what at laj Ja last t woman oman was admitted to to- to i college the first discovery she the made mado was was exactly exactly- what man feared the feared the I world Is full fuU of a number of ot Interesting things besides Himself I This knowledge puts the college girl girlin girlin in a class by herself It rather limits her Influence with the other sex sox and with a vast number of or her own sex ex to whom all aU wisdom la s superfluous except that wh which ch begins and ends with Man The Tho coll college ge girl In fact delights in I being able to stand alone beside b man loan I not supported by him Spinsterhood is I no humiliation to her She does not I lose caste if It she falls fails to marr marry This I is the chief distinction between her and other women I Titus TItus' sho Is 19 tho the only free freo woman she does not fall faU in love because she Is expected to do so flO nor from mere idleness Idleness Idle idle- ness nor as a passing amu amusement 1 If love comes cornea her way she reasons about it a. a as well as feels Sho She will discuss family limitation or trial marriage with her betrothed as Impersonally as If tho the subject were tho cost of ot a a refrigerator And she Will put the mo most moat t disillusion disillusion- disillusioning ing tests to herself For example Is she willing to pledge herself to sit opposite one man and no other at all an of her meals for tor all aU the rest of ot her life Ufo She realizes that the conventions exact this and she decides whether the theman theman theman I man I is worth the price BEFORE she accepts him This habit of ot thinking before she acts makes her hera a bit Dit tr trying to the average lover By his liIs- inheritance from all time man prefers rs an Impulsive woman who will assume ull all regrets 1 if her Impulses impulses impulses Im im- pulses prove mistakes I To the reasoning collego college woman he must bring credentials and he knows that she is well qualified to detect forgeries erlei But if 11 she sho expects honesty honest in man the college girl Irl also alJo returns It She Is very cry apt to despise the rouge stick sUe mock jewels jewel affected 1 manners ex extravagant extravagant extravagant ex- ex dress social and intellectual snobbery nobber And she entirely upsets old notions about the tho sloth of ot tho the educated educated educated edu edu- woman I No o lazy Jazy woman could ever c acquire a college collese degree Her choicest char characteristics in short are Just those which 01 put Into an advertisement for a a. capable mal maid mald- mald must be bo honest Intelligent and not afraid to work The college girl is very proud of ot her reference She is the tho only true truc democrat among mong women After all though the poet meant It In quite a adI dI different lerent sense Julia OGrady and the colonels colonel's lad lady are the same down under their skins The college girl is still sUll Eves Eve's daughter with all her charms and graces plus hone honesty t Intelligence and amI 1 willingness to work worle What man a advertising for a a wife wito would dare ask more I