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Show WOMEN AS "PAMPERED TOYS" Olttlngulthcd French Abb Makes Some Sharp Commentaries on Sex Relations In America. Amcflcnn women expect (very right ly) from their husbands the sumo nt tentlon which French hiibnuds reijejve from their wives. The American ius-band ius-band expects nothing, nniyfor' what he recehes thu Lord mnkes him truly thankrul, writes Krcest Dlnnct, In Hnr-per's. Hnr-per's. "We nro immpered tois," nn America Ameri-ca n laiiytold me, In n distinctly resentful resent-ful tone, "but we. only know It when our husbands, nrter keeping every trouble from us, suddenly die." If the abstraction called tho America Ameri-ca n woman could be met with, I bbould nsk her whether she really likes to see a dozen men In her dniulng room wntch her the whole evening nnd bob up with military precision the moment she hnlf rises to ring the bell ; whether she would not prefer her escort sto think or whnt ho Is snylng to her In-uti'iul In-uti'iul of concentrating on uhere she walks, skipping to the unprotected side of her the whole time; or whether she likes being supported ncrne the rond with Inilulte piecnutlons, as If she were n very III person or n xery brittle ol(Ject; or, on the contrary, tlrmly grnsped below the shoulder und wafted to thu other side with the triumphant ease of long practice. I have kept n picture representing three exceedingly widely kuown American Amer-ican men u niching a lady go down u deck stairway. She Is spoken of as n sportswoman and would probably think nothing of scrambling down n rope ladder ir It amused her. Tho steps on which sho appears nro brond nnd comrortnble, hut the gentlemen with guiding nnd supporting gestures smile nt her achievement with the saihe wonder nnd delight ns If she were a linliv for the first tlmo off the go-curl. Meanwhile the lady herself Mullen in her furs tike coy Pboelie between be-tween two clouds. |