Show Oo a l JaD T C 9 E ELove Love Protection and Personal Beauty Beauty All All Strive I for the Last All Seek the Second and Every Evary Woman Wants Love More Than e Anything Any Any- Anything thing Else in the World BY MABEL HERBERT UR URNER ER Cop Copyright j right 1911 National nol nal News Association the tho fates totes to grant to each woman one wish wish tho one thing thine she wants most In the world world- It would be Love Lovo the fates tates to grant to each manone man manone manone one wish wish the tho one thing he wants most In the world world-It might be Love or U it might be Power or Wealth But with women woman the wish would be bo universal They The may conceal It deny It lie He about It In countless ways way but butIn butIn butin In their h hearts arU they y yearn arn for tor the on one thins thins- Lo Love Aid bd If It th the fats fate on to grant tar three e wishes ac as did th the fairy of th the old peasant peas peas- 1 ant le legend for or the woman th they theT y would I still Mill all three hinge on Lore LoT LOT Love Protection and Personal B Beau Beau- nI n- n I tyl Had be in the courage couras to b be wholly honest honett and she h h so rarely has baa hu those these would be the things thing she he would cak uk ra k for tor Because these are the things thing sho she TV wants ants mos moat No doubt there are many things that would be more commendable for her to want than titan beauty But this article Is not written about the things s sho she should v want ant but about muse she does want And she wants beauty because It would make much more secure her greatest creates need Lo need Lo e. You will say nobility nobility no- no of mind and character would do that Possibly But those are things s severy every ery every woman believes she oho can attain f for r herself They do not have e to be granted by a special dispensation o of fate tate And I 1 am not sure but that she Is right Given the happiness that would come from Love Lovo and nd Protection It would I not be hard to cultivate an an exemplary disposition D T n mAr riA on will say v horn that I If one ou Uh has tb three wishes e eif sh why hY not w t-w wish sh I Ifor for happiness which would cover everything every overy- thing thing for for In tho the end that Is what allour all allour our Dur wishes arc are to attain at But we T prefer to choose the form orm of our happiness One of or the tho very happiest happi happl- happiest est st women I 1 know Is my natured good slovenly washerwoman Yet how many of or us would be bo willing to become a natured good slovenly washerwoman In order to be happy Should you jou deny that personal beauty would be bo one of ot almost every overy womans woman's three wishes you ou havo have only to look about you at their frantic efforts to rolain ro- ro lain attain or feign IU Suppose every woman should suddenly sudden sudden- ly cease ccase struggling to keep the physical attractions she sho has or to t restore those she has lost or to acquire those she site has bras never had Suppose every woman should be cont content nt to discard all aU the ar artifices artifices ar- ar of at toilet and gowns and ond dress as 08 simply as as' as men men dress How many hundred thousand firms firm would go 10 Into bankruptcy Try to conceive of ot this In Its vast vast- ness nesa Dont Don't think only ot of retail snaps shops Think of all nIl the great jobbing wholesale and manufacturing conc concerns ms that would be closed Think of what percentage of ever every ery countr country's s 's Industries industries Indus indus- tries are for the production Deduction of goods contributing to the adornment and beautifying beautifying beau beau- of ot women Think of the tho great business Interests of ot the tho world that owe their existence only to a womans woman's van van- I It ity t This may ruoy seem a 0 digression But Dut ItIs It ItIs Is to anticipate the denial dental that ono one of oC ofa a 0 womans woman's three wishes would be for personal attractions Almost evor every woman woman wom wom- an on would admit the first two but few tew would be honest enough to admit the third Many Mony will say the they would wish for lor a a. less material thine thIng some some higher quality of mind or character But would they What proportion of ot a womans woman's time and money is spent on th the Improvement Improvement Improve Improve- ment meat of ot her mind or the elevation other of ot her BOU soul in In comparison to that spent pent penton on her personal adornment There Thore are of course exceptions to tc this thle as 8 to everything But It la is of the average woman I write And the tho average average aver aver- I age woman would rather have a beautiful beautiful beau beau- face tace and a beautiful bod body than all the knowledge of ot the And the tho other wish wish Protection Protection t Does Docs not ever every ery woman want ont it However However How How- ever copa capable ble and supporting self and ond seemingly sufficient self she sho mn may be bein beIn bein be- be in her heart she yearns 5 earns carns to be taken care of or I believe bellevo no woman ever er willingly stood alone It is Js instinctive e for her herto herto herto to want to bo be sheltered shielded and provided for by tho the man t she sho ho loves love This is I know a period of at careers for women There is much talk tolk of oC her freedom and her Independence But Dut Dutno no woman really wants to be dent No career however brilliant can appease appease ap ap- pease a 3 womans woman's heart hunger For a IL afew tow few years j ears perhaps sho ma may deceive herself into thinking that It will that will-that that I her work or her hor art Rrt Is sufficient But ButI I she pays dearly early to for her sophistry For or in the end ena end comes the tho womans woman's woman womans B inevitable inevitable Inevitable ble longing for her man and her child All the abstract admiration and praise of tho the world can ne never compensate toa to toa toa a woman for the personal ardent love of or one man There Is a woman I know whose work has been most successful She has ed both fame Came and money In her chosen career She Is wholly dent And yet et I 1 do not believe that she Is 13 happy Not long Ion ago I chanced to call can Her tier eyes ces were rod Plainly she had been weeping Oh has anything gone wrong wrong any any any- thing about your our work I asked anxIously My I work worl work work-my m my work she laughed a 0 little hysterically Does nothing mater matler matter mat mat- ter ler er but 01 my work e Have I come to be only a machine Am I 1 never no to bo be considered considered con- con as a woman Oh defiantly I I am om so much more wonderful than titan my work work and and yet I am thought of or only y as B a 0 mentality But Dut arent aren't you content Haven't you YO everything EverythIng bitterly Have Savo I any any- thing anything anything that a a woman really reaU w t I T haven't ov AV M V h Mt I N T an s en a erne o as sY I glanced c d' d around u the h r 1 apartment this Isn't a a. home Do yo yot think any woman can cann make a horn alone Oh Id I'd give it all up tomorrow i all tho the success all the fame yes fame yes glIt gl It t up gladly and ond lIvo In a Harlem fillon fin fill on twenty dollars a week week and and mak makIt It t home with home with a man I loved Which only goes to provo prove that e ev ery cry wom woman n at least every woman wh knows Were sh she given three wI she would ask first first t of ot all Love for for Love For without it to 0 o a woman else counts count |