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Show The Most Terrible Sight" A great violinist says that American women are "tnhumun." "Do you know what to me Is the most terrible sight In all New ..York r he asks. "Worse than the pll!ablo"'processibn"of little' girls up Broadway! It la the women In the foyer of the opera. When I look at them It Is with pity and with dismay, dis-may, and finally with terror. IIow can there be sp many women, I ask myself, who leek so inhuman!. OTthe splendor splen-dor of their perfection, how terrlblo It Is. One after another, qne after another, anoth-er, I aee them; early rqlddlo-aged and middle-aged, CplraL, and magnificent, tbelr'too-abundant flesh carefully corseted, cor-seted, their arms and bosoms shining, every detail of them speaking how they live In the realm of tho body, and how much thought and time It has taken tak-en to give thera that special aspect of perfection. One knows how they live, how sheltered are they from every uncomfortable un-comfortable physical sensation. They shrink from discomfort more shudder-Ingly shudder-Ingly than a braver race shrinks from pain." Woman's Home Companion. |