THE GIRL OF 1950.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 229, 20 June 1908, Page 11

THE GIRL OF 1950.

0 ujW*W •^i ir - a^1 ''as been telling 5 8 ±iT 7,"^ a 'l interviewer what progress sho 0 thought women would mako during the noxt i. 50 years, and what effect the francnise wonld v I have upon the character and tastes of the f? x - bhe s ®y, s . : T," lt is Bcarcc ly too optimist J lO ™. foretell that women will have tho tranchiso m 42 years to como. That will 0 mean a stupendous alteration in tho point 5 ot view from which women will bo regarded n fy ,P 10n - _™ a question to ask with regard a to . n th .o suffrage is not do.women want it. but b "'" it bo good for them? Certainly it will. a f? J™. 1 , t( ?, a . cll them common sense, develop 3 , . lr intelligence, and make thorn responsible t' Mo " Wl ," it worth their whilo to tallc seriously to women about serious affairs, such as politics. They will be amazed, it is safo to say, by tho fresh and penetrating outlook women will, bring to > bear upon great points of issue, and will • be grateful for their advice, instead of be--1 j^Q Ug m n or frankly contempr She thinks that tho Englishwoman of to- ■ day suffers from apathy and lack of ideas, while the American woman, who has ideas in plenty suffers from bustle and tight clothing. The girl of IDSO will know better than to wear clothing : and corscts that distort the figure. She will not neglect tho arts of beauty. So she will we2r beautiful materials beautifully made; silks, on dress occasions, and muslins in the summer, ,1 think, and light weight woollen fabrics and velvets m tho winter, and they will be so designed as to enhance her grace of form, and by no to obliterate her beauty of contour. But the purely conventional and distorted hour-glass figure, that is absolutely unnatural, will have ceased to bo the ideal, and thjel really exquisite linos of tho feminine form, than which nothing can be more beautifuJ, will be admired. Present day women have a. debased idea of beauty. It .is that 'which must bo banished. Then they realise not at all tho fact that half their vitality is taken up in' nghting against the pressuro tight corsets exert upon the vital organs. ''There are so many vital organs and so little room for them to bo packed away in, so little, indeed, that tho corset of convention, a garment closely boiled and extending from bust to hips, over which it is tightlv laced, must press on some. By wearing them women voluntarily abandon a large part of tho special measure of vitality with which ■JNature has, as a sex, endowed them. This is a pity, for women, as you know. Jiavc naturally much more vitality than men. Hoy babies are less easy to bring up than cm babies. All mothers are aware of that, Uld women live longer on -an average and arc more active as a rule in mentality as well as physique than old men, although they have been the mothers of many children. Yet they will be foolish enough to sacrifice some of the vitality that is their great asset for tho sake of fulfilling the demands of a debased -losrt -f, J so ' l^' 0 tho English girl of 1950 will havo learnt the salutary lesson that it is her duty to stand apart and ponder now and then. . - 'Leisure that stimulates the intellect women should seek. To find it they have cnlv to abandon the frivolities in which they pass so many .hours nowadays;, the wasted hours spent in the clubs, in playing bridge, and in talking chiffons and vanity. "I believo that the woman of 1950 will be ™ raoro domesticated than tho one of 1908. She will want to uso her 'newly found administrative powers in perfecting her homo. fully expect she will be much more a vegetarian than a meat-eating individual."