The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1921, Page 11

Why Women Should Keep _ Their Maiden Names FANNIE HURST GIVES REASONS “It’s So Silly to Lose One's Identity Just on Account of a Marriage Ceremony,” She Says. Copyright, 1021, by the Press Piblishing Co. (The New York Rvening World), “e OMEN stand in their own light! W They are the worst enemi They are afraid of disple: Ws They are cowards! ‘The woman who considers washing dishes sacred is retard- ing the economic progress of her sex! Women are like cockatoos bern in captivity! They cannot think logically! These sentiments are not taken from Schopenhauer, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, but from Fannie Hurst. “The woman who talks of tradition and ‘woman's place’ with eyes cast heavenward and says virtuously, ‘I am a mother and a wife, my home and my home duties are sacred,” is not only the worst enomy of her sex, but ds retarding the progress of every woman who wants to be economicully and socially independent, I can't see anything sacred in washing dishes!” ‘This is Fannie Hurst's ultimatum to ‘her sex. Miss Hurst was most sweep- ing in her denunciation of women, albeit fair, when interviewed at her studio apartment, No. 12 West 69th ‘Street, which is also and admittedly, @espite rumors to the contrary, the address of Joseph S. Danielson, musi- cian and husband of Miss Hurst, “What of children?" she was asked. “Give them over to child-rearing specialists,” was the reply. “We haye ail kinds of specialists, have we mot? I am a great believer in speciatizing. Nine-tenths of the women to-day don't know how to bring up their children. They woult be happier and of more value to the community if they did something elee. On the other hand, there are plenty of women who are by inclina- fyon and disposition born mothers. With a little scientific training they gould become experts, If a woman can rear a child properly—why ‘should she be limited to her own children? “We say that all women have a ‘mother instinct,’ and trust to this to “turn out self-respecting and worthy citizens. As a matter of fact the ‘mother instinct’ has nothing to do with the rearing of children. A woman may have a surplus of this ‘mother instinct,’ and at the same time make a very poor mother from the economic point of view, Miss Hurst rose suddenly. ‘Wait just a minute,” she said. “I want to show you something.” She ceturned to the room with a gorgeous cockatoo clinging to her finger, “Isn't he glorious?” she asked. He was, With a breast of hot orange, wings of Maxfield Par- rish blue, a touch of vermilion, and dabs of ‘brilliant green, he looked almost unreal. Only -jature could dare such a combination. Miss Hurst shook him a little. He fluttered and flapped his wings. The spread of them easily measured three feet. “There!” exclaimed Miss Hurst triumphantly. ‘Women are exactly Ifke that bird. He has an enormous <power and strength in those wings. ut the poor little thing was born dn captivity and he doesn't know it. Where's no telling how far he could fly. And I don’t want him to know. When he becomes restless and flapa, what do I do? Do I encourage him to fly? I do not. I pat him on the head and say sweet things to make him forget. He's a handsome ornament and 1 don’t want him to be anything e. “And that’s exactly the treatment “men have been giving women for ages. Women have been born in captivity so long they've forgotten that they could ever fy. They don't know their own powers, and most of them are afraid to try the spread of their wings. It's so casy to follow the line of least resistance! It's 80 easy to be dependent upon @ man and comfortable in his shadow! “When women become restless and yearn to try their wings, men do to them iy what I just did to my ca0k: They pat them on the head and say sweet, soothing things. Men don't want women to test the strength of their wings. And so men will never give women economic in- ence. N) have to get !t for them- , it's no use mincing words— women are afraid!" continued Miss Hurst musingly. “They are like creatures Who have been brought out of the darkness to sudden light, y're afraid of their own shadows. on were the Worst opponents of <pffrage, and they are the worst op- ponents of economic freedom, The men will become reconciled to the independent woman before women will! (make this prediction because T-feel that women haven't learned to think as men do—logically and tm- personally, ‘The alaves didn’t want freedom. But do they want slavery back now?” “You believe, do you not, that a woman should keep her own name after marriage?” “[ certainly do, [t's so silly to lgse one's identity just on account of a marriage ceremony. Mary Jones has been Mary Jones for tweuty- five years, She is an entity in her- self. Then comes along John Smith, ‘nd because she marries him she ceases to be Mary Jones and becomes , instead Mrs, John Smith. ‘There is “@ subconscious effect that must re~ act @ normal person. r you Rave been addromed ly as of their own sex! jing ment Mrs. John Smith—pretty soon you BECOME Mrs. John Smith. Does a man like to be known as Mrs, Brown's husband? Why do women stand for it? “But it is the woman's fault. Women are smugly complacent in their present state of slavery. The woman who boasts, with a holier- than-thou attitude, that her married life means everything to her doesn't know what she’s talking about. The chances are she has never developed any other line of thinking. “Tr admit ahat my marriage means @ great deal—very muoh indeed, to me; but I should hate to feel that it ig my Whole existence.” BEAUTIFUL DANSEUSE TO BE 17-YEAR-OLD BRIDE OF BELGIAN NOBLEMAN ~ Miss — LAvRINE FRIEND KEveTend. T % announced that Miss Laurine Friend, the beautiful seventean- year-old San Francisco actress and dancer, is to wed the Viscount Von Metzer, Belgian nobleman, in the near future. The wedding will be held in San Francisco. _ Can You Beat It! UPSTAI AND TR Re WATER NOW PLU ! HBER | | COULDN'T GET ANY WATER THE 1 ) RIPES WERE FROZEN By Maurice Ketten a THE PLUMBER NOTONLY CHARGED NE FIVE Bucks BUTHE Took MY HONE BREW OFF LAST THE WATER WASN'T ON. \ TURNED IT TE C.WES Copyrtamt, 1921, by the Press Yubllsbing Co, (The Now York byening World), Local Flesh Reduction, FEW words must be said re- garding the local reduction \of fat. There are many per- sons In whom the accumulation 1s confined to one part of the body, making a general obesity cure un- necessary, In men the abdominal walls are favored; in women the chest and thighs take on additional weight after middle life, It is impossible for women to retain youthful lines and a jaunty figure when the upper part of the back through the chest walls be- comes padded with fat, This gives even to a young woman a matroauly appearance. Only by strenuous local treatment can the unsightly flesh be van~ quished. | Scrubbing the parts daily with a sfiff flesh brush to thoroughly stir up the layers of Ussue, followed by vigorous exercise morning and night wih the use of a Turkish towel at an open window; practising deep breathing all the while, will prove effectual after weeks of persever- ance. The towel in grasped at elther end and extended its full length; the arms are rained forcibly above the then lowered to the shoulders in b the arms are then swung f:om side in see-saw movements, the body held rigid at first, and after ten move- ments it is bent from side to side, first in harmony with the swing of the arms, then twisted in the opposite direction, thus bringing into play all those muscles to which the upper arms and shoulder blades are attached. Many other movements will suggest themselves, but if those mentioned above are systematically carried out twice a day positive resulis will fol- low. In cases of enlarged abdomen the belt of webbing acta as a reminder to draw the abdomen in, This forces the chest out and stratghtens the back, thereby throwing the entire figure into better alignment. Many men tad this ail that m necessary for fat reducing and are delighted upon the discovery that the belt can be drawn tighter irom week to week. By means of the following exer- cises the fat layers are not only di- minished, but tone is gradually re- stored to the mruscular wallg This exercise Is the treatment par excel- lence for reducing an enlargeé ab- domen: Stand with the heels together and font, Sat cn, the floor, Tense the body, ae the legs, throw the arma above head, bring them lowering the body from the waist only, the knees being held stiff until the fingers touch the floor. When the abdomen is so lange that the fingere come only to the knees, the exercise should nevertheless be persevered in, repeated ton times morning and night, increasing grad- ually until it can be repeated fifty, and even a hundred times, without fatigue. This exercise ulso reduces the waist and hips. For hip reduction alone the foll ing exercise is perhaps the bes' flat upon the back, raising the at a right angle with the body, porting them on-a chair or the w them in a semicircle and cross them in an effort to make the right foot touch the floor on the left and vice versa. Great dexterity may be attained in LOT’ ODD INVENTIONS. N Indiana woman is the A inventor of overalls with straps sewed to the knees and ankles to wrap the legs closely and make them form leggings. A woman is the patentee of a cook book in which each recipe is illustrated by pic- tures of the Ingredients to be used, in England woman's vanity bag ejects a shoe shining when a spring is pressed Invented is a which pad this exercise and it ducing if persisted in is quickly re- that awful Mrs, Digby call- ing!" cried Mrs, Jarr, as the door bell rang. “I know her I met her when I was shopping sliborhood to-day and she said she'd be around." “Didn't you ask her why she never called to see you any more?" asked Mr, Jarr. “One has to be polite,” replied Mra. Jarr, “But she might have known I didn't want to have her call with a pack of gossip, Those that bring a tale carry one, and she goes away and tells things and says you said nu “Not that I id it!” remarked Mr. Tame Elephant Totes Motorbike T has remained for Major Jackson Atlon, big gamo hunter, to discover @ new use for the motorcycle, He has found that it is idealy suited to elephant hurting on the African veldt lands, which are ismooth enough to See a te But q these lands are isolated, and getting is impos- ‘Therefore, the Major reasoned, to them on a motorcye! sible, Jarr. "I'm ping to duck out.’ “No, you won't, you etay right here!” commanded Mrs. Jarr. “Then seeing you around, maybe she won't atay long. She doesn’t Hke you.” “Honored I am sure, with the Jady's dislike,” said Mr. Jarre, But he kept his eye on his hat and coat in the hall. ¢ admit Mrs. and telling her how 5 t siying to nat I 1 had promised Jarr was kissing was to Mr was ler this a call, I've just moment on my way said the visitor, Aroppr F to Mrs, Hankinson’ “L hear she is ili in but the old thing—-her lust has beaten her again 1 suppose. You know the time it was given out she he downstairs and broken (wo ribs—that was that man Hankinson's doing! “Dear ine, how dreadful!’ said Mrs. ryes her right upped the spreader of glad tid she will stick to the man, and hes brute and @ bootlegger!” Mr, Jarr murmured that this was news to him as, in the first place Han- Kingon seemed a good-natured guy, and in the second pl Hankinson had asked him if he know where he could get some good stuff. Mrs. Dighy gave Mr, Jarr a search- why not carry the motoroycle there !ng glance as though to imply she sus- on the ®ack of a tame elephant? that is just what he does, above photograph showa, Bo > picioned he was a bootivgger also, ‘Then she sighed. “Well,” she said, “all you men stand by each other, but I have nothing to ———— 4 TA JARB FAMILY Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World say about other people's uffaira, But it's no wonder Mra, Dorking ran away from her husband. Of course he #ay# she hasn't run hway, that she's only visiting her mother, who is sick. But he's shut up the house and gone to boarding. Hie, too, Is a friend of that man Hankinson!” and sh. shot Mr. Jarra sour glance, as though to say all friends of that man Hankinson were equally suspect “And how are you feeling? asked Mrs, Jarr to turn the conversation into other channels. "You are looking well." “Lam, feeling pretty good, but Mra. Hickett’ is not long for this world, I am afraid. Well, if she will take drugs, what else can she expect?" “She thinks a change of air wil do her good," faltered Mrs. Jarr. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921 NAL WOM 2 BY NEAL, ®.OHARA © The High Cost of Looking Hangs On So Fierce—Beauty Is Skin Deep, and It Hasn't, Gone a Bit Lower Than That—And the More Clothes the Lovely Ladies Get the — Fewer They Wear. 1920, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). UITE a few commodities have been reduced besides army and Ff Ford's canned goods, Price tags are written in the poor language now, and you can get something with a nickel the wrong number. Copyrient Business has taken some terrible wallops. ‘The sole” ' line of trade that's as good as it used to ve fe selling orange blossoms im | Salt Lake City, ae * ‘There is still a demand for star spangled brandy labels, with ¢on' ; to match; but otherwise commerce is slightly on the fritz. It now tal longer to get a divorce in Reno, which shows another great industry slowing up. Meanwhile the merchant dukes are slashing prices with double-edge cleavers. Nearly everything has toughed rock bottom, but A DAME WILL TAKE SMALLER SIZES IN SHOES, AS FAR AS HER ECONOMY STAGGERS. do you see the fainting sex reducing their demands? and echo answers, “Not 50 you could notice it.” A dame will take smaller sixes in shoes, but that's as far as her economy staggers. It is still appropriate to garnish your sweetie’s | belt line with a corsage of orchids at $20 a petal. Your cutie-cate with + let you walk up one flight to save ten plasters on a suit of clothes, but she won't walk up one flight with you to save an X-spot on come balcony seats, The dames still find it hard to enjoy a show anless | you've bought some shoes for the ticket scalper’s baby, « ‘The idea persists in their girlish domes that a taxt ride is the short- est distance between two points. When a baby Yamp wants you skinned alive she leads you to a taxi driver instead of a taxidermist, Another natty trait of the cooing flapper concerns her appetite, She $ think no meal is complete without a cover charge that loaks ie ise z phone number. ‘They also don't know that diamonds can come im — fractional carats. M j The high cost of looking hangs on something fierce, Beauty ts — skin deep, and It hasn't gone a bit lower than that, Plenty of reck+ | less wrens are staggering out of beanty parlors and into the soup kitchens, When crow’s feet are as expensive as ostrich feathers, when it costs as much to remove a pimple as it did to remove Culebra Cut, | what else can you expect? ‘ A good-looks den is now a place where a frail ete stuck on lip sticks and gouged on rouge, They take the wrinkles off your face and put ‘em in your hair, and charge you for labor and material! There is nothing permanent avout the wave except the price. t Last of all comes the clothes of the lovely ladies, The more clothes they get the fewer they wear, They may be the fair sex this winter, but it’s hard to figure they’re the warmer sex. The -low-neck gown has thrown the underwear trade into a panic., Silke worms are starving for lack of work, Even red ilannel shirts have felt the effect, and the Wool Trust is throwing ‘em on the market for less than 5 cents per square Itch. But the cost of flimsy stuff still holds up, An envelepo chemise’ig something you can buy for $12 and send to Frisco for a 2-ceat, stamp, - Silk stockings cost something fierce, but the girls have fooled ‘em on that, — The cuties now buy woollen sox, and they're rolling their own below y knees, And just that one atroke of economy offsets the dough that spend on everything else, BUT THATS We pause for reply, i tie 13 ' “The only change of alr sho will get will be when she is taken to tho cementery,” remarked the cheerful visitor, “And did you hear about her husband running away, too? Yes, he's disappeared. No one knows where he heard the slam of the door and knew her own husband had disappeared. And furthermore she didn’t iktfow where he had gone. Nobody knows where the husbands go to these days, has gone Now in yester years, when there But Mra. Jarr did not answer, She were saloons, it was different. MY DEAR: % Ke *& M’ DEAR Dropping in about the tea hour at the big hotels, one ts permitted to see all munner of dres= ing things that ure bad and things the are good, But from among the collec tions of scattered and varied modes one gathers a few hints that speak woll for the of the day ‘Taffeta seema to be hold against the vig un effort fabries such as Canton er ara crepe and de chine und ¢ h lene Is something piquant taffet a of women vin ty eof And the wise ones of them are not f lingulshing 1. ‘Vo mark such taffet frocks as new, circular skies are fen tured with mug bodices. The skirt sre usually finished in an cifeetive aml simple manner with @ binding of som contrasting color or @ flat piatting, 1 saw a distinctive little crepe frock the other day which had achieved high collar with a rather pret ws bow in front of crisp white organdy, whose rounded tabs were finished with « tiny pleating, White organdy con- sorts delightfully with almost any fabric, and for summer frocks it is most pronouncedly helpful to ging- ham, 1 daw a emart don tbe something of chic by a nt Bindings of Color Are Spring’s Novel Offering to Our Dark Street Frocks other day where the bodice was of the Mared and cuffed with red gingham, and the full skirt of gingham was hemmed with a tuck A narrow black was the finishing trasting colors and fabries for bodice and skirt? A white khaki-kool ekirt will be supplemented with a tangers ine blouse ono of another vivid * while lace or ongandy frocks © exploit bodices of dark blue taffeta or black velvet, I suppose all of you are interested in anything new in the way of elabe oration for the aimple frocks you des vel for yourselves so I most not white organdy, ¢ or of white organdy color, belt patent lent toneh Have ioney clothes for you noticed, by the way, what the advance employing con- 6 ix in the forget to te you about a dar COOKING HELPS. scorsette frock 1 saw a) o-reeantaaa You have ronson to tulleve which bad coin spots of self color vel= | aa rub it 9 Yet pasted on over most of the gkirt all mite nt all p to the hip tne; and wntle them dice was left plain, the flaring elbow siveves oov owith the spots. A blue lace sash formed & fetching and unusual comples I saw another pretty frock ey re dot were attractively intro. ry and brow it, The «nk 1 of black chenille om will be tender and have a de i net, the same dffegt he front and back panols An apron of lictous Gave: repeated on vt the bodlee. Our well-loved and dearly acquired hats are being replaced rapidly fascinating opes of straw and Exposure to light has a de teriorating effect on olive oil When served at the tuble | ta whioh 1 ahalh set Saoeet al should be puy Into a dar xt week; but I will say that colored bottle and removed to of you who can wear i¢ will 4 cool, dark place as soon aa type Chat is already what the meal is over, nia ‘popular’