The Vain Sex.

Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 73

The Vain Sex.

J Aare women vainer now,, than, they have 1 j been - : ever since the world -began? To ; qttote Solomon again, who ought to havej knowix\something 1 wda^tt,' and at j ; the same time to edit huh, for gramma'ti- • cal purposes, all are vanity. * One' hopes that there k no woman, however oid and j however plain and however sensible '*9le I may 3>e;"Vho has not v «6m»fe jspark -of vaaifey , withm her, which, f t" properly fanned-, •would -barest into flaaae.". Across; the. .At-" lantic they are worrying themselves io deatt over the vanity 'of women, which* bo fai at least as America is concerned, . is imperilling .tbe ace and: ruining^'the nation. It 's not only of thai, bodies that they are vain, but of their tnindf as well. Herein lies the greater danger. Men Mice women to nice ; they flatter them-^ selves, moreover, that It is to please and I to enare them that woman makes her •■ raiment all -glorious, and tires her hair, and bedizens herself with jewels; but when it comes to adorning her mind and taking pride in her intellect, that is altogether a- different matter, and she at once becomes inordinately And perilously vain, a national danger, even un&exed. It is not a. little surprising to find America thus indicting ts women, to whom it has been ever ready to grant the fullest educational privileges, and to atfray in the best that the ateliere ot

Paris could produce. Has the worm oi an Ainerickn husband, *> mercilessly, descriLed bj? " jaigabsth,',' tui-ned^pr is tbifi merely a playfiri way of filling ip time daring i\k eflly/iSeason?. . | Apyhow, , i^ is a djecu3,s;on \rhif \). ,d<ie. ' not' appeal tr" us in ims Side. — " "Am"bpofeia,'' 41 tiia eWorld. ./ . -la -keep, >kin smooth keep a ja. if plain fiiw oatmeal on tbe washstand anrf put' a teaspocoiful in the water whea yox " ■waeh. I' '«• v p moB excellent water ' Boftenei. - .; _, f( , " ' ■' ■ ' , ' ' ' '«rrra •