| Show A POETESS OF PASSION A pleasant chat a cleter woman J IRS illa characteristic remarks about the sterner sex she advocates knee breeches far men Ichi cogo baily netis looking at least ten years you 1 g er than her age which she admits without a pang eyes bright and 0 barkling par kling skin clear fresh and pink glinted lips red and throat as white as the breast of a swan her rather abort but perfectly devel aped form clad in black figured silk with an orange colored fichu caugh I 1 t together close beneath the chi slender feet thrust into pointed toed slippers of bronzed leather happy smiling at peace with all t I 1 e wo ild this was ella tchee I 1 er wilcox as she sat before it cozy grate fire in her apartment at the grand cotil yesterday after noon with the face and figure of a handsome warm bloomed careless well bred girl of 20 she has the trained intellect and conversational e ase of a literary litt campaigner of fifty well what abail we talk about inquired klirs wilcox of a daily newa reporter who called upon her yesterday mans inhumanity to to wo I 1 8 t was suggested eug as a favorite topic with her you mistake the poet es s I 1 u lied its not mans ichu inanity to but his expectations from woman that agitates me why you been writing alot of articles for a syndicate in which y su said that man was a good deal of a nuisance anyhow and that woman could get along a good deal better without him oh no not so bad as that tai ough you little I 1 near er w b a t I 1 did bay now this is the wa y I 1 look at me she probably looked at mr wilcox that way abou t the time of an sig in his career for it was a look that would make short work man 1 I look at a man this way iles good enough jor a lover ob lie is very nice for a lover and does acry well for a husband but for a friend ab there is where be is lacking but you expect a man w 0 had gone to all the ex hellse 0 f being a lover or a husband to be I 1 friend into the bargain would you now I 1 arnt you ladies just a little wo monopolistic III your blui t you have the eart is the point interrupted ill e poet that is abat you men want ibe earth now when I 1 waa a girl I 1 was very fond of we u in yet 1 I 1 imagined a man was superior to a oman in every way I 1 thought he would ina e the best friend in the world but before long Ibe ganto him better A man J never a person lie wants something lie wants so met bing ile may be very nice and attentive and sweet to you but just watch him awhile and see that be aint going fukway if lie call he p it ile wants vidue re and if he makes up his mind that he getting it the last you see of him where a woman is friendship has no meaning for him A comans womans best friend is another woman ilow are you going to work to disarm a comans womans envy of another woman fler malice her 1 I admit the envy and the ma ice too but they are vices which do not exist everywhere and are outweighed many times b 7 the passions which are never lacking las t is the which prevent men and foluen from becoming friends in the ideal sense of the word nars wilcox illustrated that a mans attentions to a woman meant invariably that value re was his motive by ng t an anecdote told in one of the letter a which represented an aged admirer sending a girl a bill for the amount of the cost of all the cups sups pers he bad paid for before alle threw him over and declared that though the stor bad been gener ally y she knew it to be absolutely true and the whole thing happened right here in chicago she added but the poetess could not be in laced to give the name and address f ille gentleman in order that his hoto graph and pedigree might be reduced for publication ebest lid been told her in strict co az dence after speaking of the success in R and literary way being made by her miss as whom she took e st with her two years ago froni chicago mrs wilcox 1 upon the subject of dress re ford jhc thc corset and the bustle are a brimi nations slie declared hill still you appear to to is oh yes I 1 still wear their on the street and in the hotel one auit he conventional you know but at borne unit at my work I 1 never allew the things near me what can be than tit nave a bustle always in your way kilell vou to bit down or to h laced of in a corset when you if Is have perfect freedom of ill 6 IT Is there any decided improved mant you co I 1 I 1 ld suggest in tha fa hili for men yee kaleb and mckina tC kina Il lonest of course why not but think of tile spectacle some if oi I 1 r budea would maket really cant mean it but I 1 do its certainly a more cleanly manner of d and ever ail much more becoming I 1 I 1 would you aketo see your chiq b d knee breeb heb now ly ill 4 1 A 1 I 1 t 1 aa 11 1 W ill n I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t yes I 1 I 1 allut hov people would talk wall lie might wear them around lome wath me any way we are growing entirely too matter of fact in every way I 1 think need a little more of the poetry of the past in our everyday life we cant have it unless we are more artistico arti stio in our outward forms who can be graceful in trousers or in A bustle why not have knees breeches back again at least for evening dress find coats ano esta of silk and satin then we would have the minnet theold ly social dormi we ladies could do so chuch more in tile way of grace ful and artistic dres and I 1 we would again beconi i a sketch in colors oil yeii I 1 be lieve in then perhaps you are not di s posed to with society oil account of its growing its aping of court customs im not very familiar with social eife in nn but I 1 think if I 1 were ohp dors of foreign nations in tl i e capa city of wife of a cabinet officer I 1 should like i hem to appear in tile costumes of the office I 1 should like to see the envoy or the japanese envoy in the dress of b s own country and appropriate to hii rank isias wilcox came west a week ago orf a saying that her danger the poetess came to chicago for a short visit but will return to wisconsin for the lenten season the poetess very youth fid and robust aspect being remarked she said yes MY husband thinks it IN a great ati ciment to him I 1 actually look ten years yoi than I 1 am it is mccause im efell taken care of ism DO bodger bausted with visions to pay and only w ork when I 1 feel like it beaida es I 1 always look my best and am ro best when ina well loved an praised |
