PROTECTION FROM WOMEN'S WILES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 437, 17 September 1908, Page 4

PROTECTION FROM WOMEN'S WILES.

Georgia, which recently became a Prohibitionist State, is now considering a measure to protect men from women’s wiles (writes a New York correspondent). A Bill has been introduced into the Legislature which, after a highly interesting discussion, has been referred to a committee, providing that all marriages become null and void when the husband is entrapped by the woman’s use of cosmetics, paints, powders, scents, artificial teeth and hair, lingerie, padding, open-Work hose, high-heeled shoes, transparent “waists” (blouses), and other aids to beauty. The author of the Bill, Mr George Glenn, is a married man, and 40 years of age. He supported his Bill with a powerful and eloquent argument on the necessity of preventing the disunion so common after marriage when the husband discovers half his wife’s hair to be false, her lovely teeth the result of the dentist’s skill, and her complexion enriched by paint and powder. According to Mr Glenn, marriages effected by such ways are equivalent to a contract made on the strength of false pretences, and should be declared void. The women in Georgia are furious, and are bringing powerful pressure to bear on the members of the committee to report unfavourably on the Bill. To all criticisms Mr Glenn replies that the measure places no restrictions whatever on women who do not wish to be married. Now, as before, they may employ all their arts to render themselves more beautiful.