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Show COESNT KNOW HOW TO LOVE - Gilbert Frankau Believe th Yoirnn Woman of Todsty It Not Capabl of Self-Sacrifice. Yoa har to watch the modern dance to see the modern girl at her most self-revealing. Begard her carefully, care-fully, thl bepalnted, bepowdered, b manicured product of our hectic age, as she circles the ballroom. She dances emotionally, but her emotions ere for the rhythm and the music, not for the mere male, her partner. Even In a man's arms she Is as nearly sexless sex-less as the ladles of the Lysistrata, Gilbert Frankau writes In the Forura. Regarding her thus, one cannot help answering the question which stands at the head of this article In the most emphatic negative. No I Give her all her good qualities, her poise, her efficiency, ef-ficiency, her intelligence and you will still be forced to admit that judging her superficially the modern girl i8 not capable of a great and enduring love. To begin with, she is too selfish, too self-centered, too set on the pursuit pur-suit of what she considers pleasure, to abandon herself to that self-sacrifice which Is love at Its best. And then, perhaps, she Is too wise. Myself, I am and have always been, a strong supporter of the civil contract con-tract In matrimony. Matrimony, after all, Is however much sentimental, senti-mental, middle-aged fogeys like myself my-self may like to regard it as a pure love affair a legal undertaking. And I think that It Is high time for the young man of today to understand that his legal undertaking when h marries a self-supporting or an Indo pendent young woman Is not confined pilrely and simply to housing her. Th modern woman, you see, is something more than a mere domesticated pet. She requires her leisures, her pleasures pleas-ures and, more perhaps even than these, her full partnership rights. |