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Show Men Are to Ulnmo for Female Frivolity. By the way, I think I occasionally hear a feeble pijw from a man to the effect that the girls are responsible for all the tomfoolery in the world. Don't you know that you are the very ones who tend to make them so yon men? You follow after and woo and wed just that sort of girls. You won't look at a sensible little woman who can make "lovely" bread, abjures bangs, can't dance aud has no "style." You laugh at and make sly jokes at the expense of onr big hats and our pronounced fashions, but when yon choose your company, and often your wives, I notice you pass right by the homekeeping birds and take the peacocks. pea-cocks. If you won't have her modest and simply gowned she is willing to make a feather headed doll and a travesty trav-esty of herself to get you and win heaven! You know perfectly well, you men, that you don't care halfsomnch for brains as you do for "get-up," and the woman you honor with your choice is selected for a pretty face and form and a becoming costume rather than for a clever head and an honest heart I nm not talking to old fogies who cling to old fashioned notions, but to young men who ridicule the customs of their grandmothers, who shako their heads at the salaries of two and three thousand a year as inadequate to support wives; who rail against woman's extravagance, extrav-agance, yet do their best to maintain her in it. When you, my fine and dapper gentleman, begin to seek out the modestly mod-estly appareled and the sedate girls, then shall folly and vain show fly over seas ; for want of encouragement and the i grand transformation of sawdust dolls into women and pleasure seekers into homekeepers take place. Cor. Chicago Herald. |