CLUBS TO COMBAT EFFEMINACY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3131, 21 August 1922, Page 8

CLUBS TO COMBAT EFFEMINACY.

The men students of North-AVeratera University alarmed over the nicroiiKiiifi effeminacy or "Sissyis-un'' of the nation. have followed the example of the *tudents at Columbia. Unaveraty, and launched an "Aiiti-Effcniina< v Olwb, Willi prominent athletes as' its charter member*. , The member* of the new club are not woman-haters, but wrali that men, in then dross, customs, and temperament, should not imitate feminine habits and feminine foibles. Specimen by-laws of the club inehide: "Each member must equip himself with one |l| pipe, corn cob. briar, or clav. "Powdering the face after stowing, an effeminate practice, shall be punishable with a (inc. of not more than CSO for Ihia first offence. Wasp waiwted suits. belJ-bottoined trousers-, decollete collars, and baby ribbon neckties, bobbed hair, and goloshes) of anv species are expressly forbidden. "I ' certainly favor the movement," says Professor Starr, of the University. '"We confront a crisis. Women continue to become more mannish and men more Feminine. The story is best told in ilnw fashions. For 1000 years the ira-rh of men and women has been differentiated. To-day it i* no longer so. Women arc weaving knickerbockers, bobbing their hair, and men aire wearing wasp waist clothes, high heel's, and u-iiuj; scented water." Mr Daniel Protheim. one of the University's swiiiiniing team, who is piwirent of the club, states that members of it may be described as "five-minute. that is hard-boiled, eggs—-in other words, 'two-fisted males.' " "Nature in the beginning pi'avid'cd for two tvpu. of humankind, the masculine and the feminine." he expfains. "To-day. however, we seem to be evolving the neuter, and are becoming a nat 'on of chorus-hoys. ''Ci recce and ({oinc liolh fell simply licause the hard-boiled cgjrs became si lt-boitcd."