EXIT THE MANNISH WOMAN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 47, 20 March 1909, Page 3

EXIT THE MANNISH WOMAN

' The niantiisli woman the woman Who strove to emulate her brothers and. sweetTheart by poaching their "wtirdr.(l«'s and infringing their habits, is a. creature of H/he pabt. ' Her manner w'a.s repulsive, and her, '"inak'c-up" uiifiexed her. lirothers ridi'ciiled her. and .sweethearts gave her », wide lierth, until in her despair and, loneliness she gladly took refuge behind, the laces a.r,U "'frills tlui.t accentuate a, "wdman's ch'ai-inw au'd fascinates her ad. hilirers. i

" The .girl in a. stanched shirt- was :; inorJsHirositv-a. .sort of hybrid—and, if she were at all pretty, 10,.l all her lovable curves through her lna.sculine assumption, while a homely girl emphasised even obtrusive angle. ' And what .man cout.f make love to, a, girl who seemed the counterpart of hiiu"solfr 'U savored of making love to uuother man. ' The Derby hat. .100, sue for equestrian exercise-, would' disfigure the, luvelie.-'bt'irlVfacc. ' Tills fcu-t ils lliccomi'ng so patent that, even the comfort aide sailor hat with the still" bri'iu is fast becoming antique, and the few that appear in, the shops iiiv well covered with dotted satin foulards and mulls, or are so heavily i garnished with flowers that one hardly M'es t'lii* hat proper. The pretty while ; duck. hats seen in (he be-l shiqis arc. trimmed and am ilaint v and .becoming. Even in yaehlina ciislii'iue the sailor's severity is losing ...round. " l't;,aiiiiot be denied that dress exerts ii. pronounced iu'ituciiiec oyer the manners and disposition of a ■woihaii. ; I'ut' her in mannish clothes and her iwhole being will bristle with ni certain Swagger and boldnesls. of notion, lint arrivVher in soft mull's and laces and her Vcmiiii'nitv. villi all its pr-c'lly co-.oicti-lin.'ss. will assert its*. . A nirf in he,a.vy bootls. -a golf skirt, and a lain -o' -' shantcr may be a, "chnnimv" c'oiiipa'ui.Gi for the noo,n-houn jaunt^.'bill it is Hie igirl in the tleecy, •lov,cliiic-s of a ball gown illmt ;\ man, remembers .with t\. dreamy light in his ■eyes as he jni.ll's his .cigarette before, retiring—arid builds aiir castles in (lie ring's of smoke that, circle above hi-i I bea'd. ' '

i A man may find the ni:r,inish girl a, .'•'gonil I'ello'w 7 ' and enjoy the camnrnuierle. mid hiivo. "no em\ of fun" with her, ■hut when it comes lo tplaying his heart in the L'rtHW. it' its lo the truly fmili'me. L'irl Hint he turns in Hie .hope of winniii" her love, a.nd it is she whom he 'honors Villi Wic offer of his baud. No! A lnaii in .seeking a wife passes, by the liia!in.if.li woman who lias been, "cliuiranv." and lenv.w her fo,r some other fellow, while he himself asks I lie. girl .whose winning iviivys and womanly, tact challenge' his 'Jove and esteemi. ; Tlic.ro ils a, very perceptible toning) 'Sown of these jnnniiWi spirits, and i\ ' '■< well. A '.viiin.in Who espouses oert'ain anises exhausts herself by her own hysterical ciiCTgy. , Rlic does diot -slop to, reasosi, hut rushes headlong "whe're, angels foar'to t,ro'iul.". I