THE IGNORANCE OF WOMAN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 11

THE IGNORANCE OF WOMAN.

"Women know nothing about beauty and nothing :tbout dross,'' 1 was Iho startling remark mado by Mr. Clayton Calthrop, tho well-known arti«t and writer,, to .a London press interviewer. "Mon know far more about dross thon women do," ho continued," bei'iiuse thrj consider woman in perspective. In fho same way they are far better at p-iint-ing pictures for children than women, and all tho children's ela i -si>s have been wiittcn by men. Man even appreciates home more than a woman does — probably because he ?ees less of it. "'Woman considers heicelf in a scries of bits, never »;> a whole or an individual. Tho result is that wo have no female. individual:: — in chess — but rather a numbers of sticki dicnsed up, siccording to the f..shion, nnd each ono as lika the other as possiljlft. "Formerly Ih^ sticcts voro filled with Dv Miiumr Rirl- — now one- meets gioups j of Gibson girls. It docs not matter what the figure is really — it musi. be squeezed, clongtited, twisted, pulled and pinched until it resembles, that of every other pulled and elongated figure in the park. "Everybody has something beautiful — it may be an eys, tho nose or the mouth, but it is always there, and the whole aim and objwt oi the dre-ss should be to lend up to and emphasise that beautiful feature. "The early Victorian women knew mono about drcs? than the modern woman does, and consequently they appeared as n complete picture, distinct and individu-il, 50 thnt wksn ono caw a woman coming along ono could say, 'Theie is Mrs.' So-jnd-So.' But the modern woman is a mere 6s lid, As 4jd and 40-guinea. twin to eveiy other 6s lid, 4s 4jd, and 40-guin-e.i worn-' :i >n Majfair. Sho look.i like anybody r|*c from a distance 1 , and nsxt >var, in the new fashion, nobou^ knows hor fiom Adam."