Show a b What at Men en Think to A AW I t W WINIFRED INIFRED BLACK in her interesting In Interesting In- In I IW article on Tho Tito Beauty Craze asks what the American Ameri Ameri- can man thinks of oC all this be be cult or ful Do the men really demand this sort of or thing she sho says says referring referring of or 1 cour course p. p tu to the straining efforts that some women make to be bo beautiful It is respectfully submitted that in general men do clo not demand or appreciate appreciate the excesses in feminine clothes an and cosmetics that Winifred Black describes Some men do but the they are arc not the kind o of men that Miss l Black would consult The They match the women she criticises Thc These o men an and women are In hot pursuit of oC fine CIne things But they do donot donot J not know what fine things are They are under the Illusion that fineness is t I Ithe the opposite of or efficiency and that elegance ele ele- degance elegance gance Is achieved by set dead t to be I useless or to seem to be This way war of oC thinking is very verr old It J has been fortified b by false philosophers philosophers and false religions by all the inveterate laws Jaws of oC ca caste te and privilege h by sentimental litterateurs b by the dazzling futilities of oC finance b by the I temperamental artists and pretty prett nearly nealI nearly near neal ly Jv the whole race of or haberdashers and I hairdressers re since the bewildered ered world began which Winifred Wini Wini- Winifred The uThe beauty craze craze of fred CretI Black writes so eloquently so EO persuasively ely with such healing wl wisdom wisdom wis wis- dom is a a. great thin thing gone one wrong It ItIs Itis Itis is the morbid and distempered aspect of the greatest thing in the human world world world-to to wit the pa passion Ion for tor perfection tion What hat do sensible men think of the tha painted women They think of oC them with pit pity an and sorrow an and with contrition contrition contrition con con- for their own ancestral sins that made the tho painted women omen po possible le But do o such men think lightly of oC J. J that passionate striving after aner beauty beauty- 1 r even at cost of ot ease and with high sacrifice which sacrifice which is the special glory and travail of or true womankind Most assure assuredly J not The struggle gle after beauty beauty of of shop shop- girls housewives of oC narrow means the myriads myria of frail burden hearers bearers at the base of our crushing economic s system tem temis is is the ages age's quest grail and martyr martyr- dom Nothing is really more fine tine than the way some women in mean meRn streets make male fine art out of or their coarse conditions conditions con con- and translate Into elegance all the difficult processes of h Ing and rearing child-rearing and the grim rim necessities oC or board and clothes Why h begrudge their ribbons ribbon and anel dimity dImit things These are their decorations of or royal- royal f j i ii honor |