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Show Growing Unconventionally. Woman's rebellion is everywhere Indicated; her brilliance, hor failings, her unreasonableness, all these are excellent ex-cellent signs of her revolt. She Is even revolting against her own beauty; often she neglects her clothes, ber hair, her complexion, her teeth. This is a pity, but It must not be taken too seriously; men on active service grow beards, and woman in her emancipation eman-cipation campaign Is still too busy to think of (he art of charming. I suspect sus-pect that as time passes and she suffers suf-fers less Intolerably from a sense of Injustice, she will revert to the old graces The art of charming- was a response to convention; and of late years unconventlonality, a great deal of which Is ridiculous, has grown much more among women than among men. ' W. L. George, In Atlantlo Monthly. |