The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1913, Page 18

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JO THE CAPITAL réeqaph Ordes to Fargo, “Coming Out Isa Custom Not Peculiar to Civiliza- tion,” Writes Mrs. Par- sons, “and, Once ‘Out,’ Their Life Everywhere \Is Much the Same and Has Same Object.” eat we WORLD,. vanine <i, Gvcvie@ =Roe The mopenn DEBUTANTES, MAD MERBERT PARSONS By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ‘When Mayor Gaynor called attention yesterday to Mrs. Elsie Clews 4 g aH He E ity eed Pe if i 3 #3 | i < 848.5 ETE ve i E Clews of Mrs. Parsons's book: “The relations of the sexes will | i g E i £ } i i nating matter that I know of.” “The Old Fashioned Woman” is @ book which, nevertheless, will not please sentimentaliate, for it is remorselessly sclentific, One by one it takes our most cherished social customs and traces them back to a utilitarian or an ¢ na 3 | f i of i E | i 5g i z i li lh | hi is Delle makes a aimilar bow to society with s similar purpose--the pursuit and capture of the male, THE DEBUTANTE AMONG SAV- ri ; i E “Coming out fs a custom not pecullar to civilisation,” Mrs, Parsons anounces, “Our debutantes are apt to be old.. than those elsewhere, Instead of a year or two abroad or in a finishing achool, savage girls usually spend but @ few weeks or months in a lonely hut, or in @ ded or hammook or cage in a corner of the house or on the roof, ‘oy 8 i | i | | : i | 3 i ‘ is s | E i | | | | | | | OWUFE, FALLING HAR Of Stal Tf your hair has been neglected and te thin, faded, dry, scraggy oF too oily, don't hesitate, but get « £5-cent bottle ~ write about sex probloms is to his fore the Mayor showed both vigor and originality when he wrote to Henry|ing somewhat intimacies, the attractions and the antipathies of the sexes, one to the other, are all portrayed. Your daughter's book has given me much pleas-|to be,’ or ure, Her former book, “The Family,” gives all the literature and forms |/¢cted.’ or ‘how can ah of marriage. These two books consist of the most interesting and fasci- Parsons's book, “The Old Fashioned Woman,” which deals in an inter- esting manner with the customs, prejudices and taboos of sex, he per- formed a distinct piblic service, par- THe ticularly to his own half of the human especies. Women would have read Mrs. Parsons’s volume, any- how. But the average American man tends to regard a serious and printable history of sex as, for some inscrutable reason, unworthy of masculine Consideration. His idea of the least effeminate reading—all reading being more or less effete— often takes the form of a dry sum- mary of the progress of the Panama Canal, with photographs hardly more automatic than the text they illus trate; some gory tale of animal) if the marriage slaughter, or a political reporter’s| oan tne nen pe Ses aa intimate and disparaging story of/ public,” the statesmen he has known and| After citing various elaborate forms of .| betrothal among savages, Mrs. Parsons has graciously refrained from show-| cous attention to the perils which at- ing up. tend those’ modern ‘spirits who neglect To-read and more especially to| to pay due reverence to sacerdotal rites. “Even in civil marriage, or in fact even shirking an engagement, mi entail criticism,” she remarks. “Fei hted either on the public mind not a virile occupation. There- own account or asks questi jlictous, or of so, ‘If they Never become a tame subject. Ths ried? comments Mra, Gruni & penetrating tal bilitation of the old maid who, formerly an object of pity, “betook herself to the forum, or the market place, and after some brad flounder! ”, succeeded in making her- ‘A great deal of dancing 14 in order | gei¢ cou; in public affairs.” htc _ os aiasenit, does SCrd Chai HUNTERS {Book on Sex Problems Which Pleased GaynorQR\ COMES OUT TWO EDITORS} Links Society Debutante With Savage Belle|(f STRANGETRANCE NO UNITARIAN HEAVEN, CAPT. MARTIN DECLARED. Surrogate Hears New Angle of Mill- fonaire’s Alleged Eccentricity in Will Contest, Harold Edgerton, testifying to-day in the Surrogate’s Court in the comem of the will of Capt. John Galvin Martin, decsared that Capt. Martin had threat- ened to terminate his brother-n-law's connection with the Marti: Col, John H. Bartlett, th who is opposing the contest, quickly when this bit of evidence was roduced, “I well remember, Your Honor,” he exclaimed, “the day that remark about Unitarians was made. Ca) was joking with his brother. 1 was the butt of the joke, for Iam a ‘Unitaris | For style, for the debutante, First there is thi coming-out ball. Warrau girls (in Brit-| winns ys releny ses 8 ish Guiana) go to theirs with their halr| does from an anti-suffragist, cut and thelr hands and arms an4/tonishing as it la true. i thighs set off with pearls and feather “$o-day,” che writes, “it is down.” This description sounds not unlike a yoked New York bal gown. “In Peru,” Mre, Parsons adds, “the ball for Conibo debutantes laata twenty- four hours, They are expected by thelr chaperons to dance the whole time.” Here in New York a dance beginning at 11 o'clock may not end till long after the milkman has left the breakfast cream, and, in fact, breakfast as well 4s supper je served at forma! balls, Bo the Conibo debutantes haven't very much the advantage of thelr New York sis- tera. de arried women, of perfect fit, long wear andabsolute economy. “A girl usualy makes her debut in «| Course,” Mrs, Parsons adds, “to whom | § ‘sot! Mra, Parsons recorde, In the|the hi United States it shows itself through | ding girl’ lunches or sewing circle or teas, |i! labels, except on cans or in railway where the “buda” receive with or assist |@tations, are snobbishness, or who, liks one another, On, the Congo and olse- | married 4 feel called upon Where on the West Coast (of Africa) |t© sive way. ‘These ledies they are stil more formally organised |™4Y S° as yet no woman into secret societies, has ind any escape from being ad- CONDUCT OF THE ENGAGED AND Ye THE NEWLYWED, te! In the chapter on ‘Engagements and | married Honeymoons” Mrs, Parsons refera cas-| It ia only occasionally, in the three ually to “trial marriage.” hundred od4 ff “The Old-Fash- “In Scotland before the Reformation,” | toned Woman, Mra. Parsons per- “men and women would | mits herself ide of this kind, In Public fairs to live together | the main @! ‘icke to the bare narra At the end of this ‘hand-| tive of curious facts relating to aes ‘Wore free either to marry or| customs which she has amassed and to part." There follows an apt compart: | leave: ir to draw his, or gon between savage and “civilised” | more lil moral from them, methods of courtship, “@hould a New Guinea ft her young man on the road she has torical symbolism of the wed- is does not appeal, or to whom jeast by #ervants and shop- ‘Mrs.’ or from the past ho wae she before she was June 11.—The weried on fre st'oen, ls ui pected engaged Dorah couple may not refer to | Was reported on fire at sea, is expect each other by name, The Kumaun bride- | arrive here to-day, CASTORIA Yor Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought MEN'S 50c., 75c., $1 pair AFTER 100 HOUR Young Woman Dropped in Elizabeth Street and Was Taken to Hospital. After lying for more than 100 hours in @ trance-like stupor on @ cot in the Elizabeth, N. J., General Hospital, the young girl taken there Gaturday was revived this afternoon and identified herself. She said she was T kowaeko, that she used the sl Fannie Green for convenience and that she lived with her brother on Ripley Place, in Elizabeth. The pame “Fannie Green” had been found written on the fiyleat of @ Catho- le prayer book the girl carried when she fell to the sidewalk in front of the offices of the Public Service Corporation but because of her for- the hospital authorities did not believe that this name gave any clue to her identity. Of the many hundreds who had called at the hospital in an effort to identify the girl only one was able to throw any light on her past and he her identity. Wetula of St. ot help to establ! the Rev. John F. Roman Catholic Church in Elisabeth, who called at the hospital, looked upon the marble face of the un- conscious girl und recognized her as one who had come to him one day last week and begged that he pray for her. it was in the -acristy «f the church that the girl approached the priest and, ‘cneeling before him, cried out: “Prag. for my soul, father, I feel that I am going again into the terrible sick- ness which I have had once in Boston and once in Baltimore. Both those times I lay for hours like one dead, and I feel the sickness coming on me priest prayed for the euppliant and ehe went away without revealing her name. —— GETS MORE ALIMONY THAN SHE APPLIES FOR, And Her Divorce ‘Goes With It; So No Wonder That Mrs. Smith Is Happy. Mrs. Jessie Smith, a plump little wom- an, sued for divorce and alimony, The case came up in the Supreme Court to-day before Justice Greenbaum. Mr. Smith is an architect, with offices at tion of Brooklyn until they discovered him at @ house in Cranberry strect with ® woman. “How much alimony do you request?” asked Justice Greenbaum. “I think $20 a week will be about ‘Mre, Smith replied. how much does Mr. Smith ily $5,000 a year.” then," decreed the Court, “you ‘king for enough alimony, I $25 a week and your divorce Smith was so gratefully surprised she had to be led out of the courtroom, with its quality and dura- bility assured, costs no more in the end than good cotton hose. 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