Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1910 — A DEPARTMENT FOR WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A DEPARTMENT FOR WOMEN

Wnjr Do Men Walt on Women? Irreverent persons suggest that man’s only object in life is to please woman and to serve her. Slightly exaggerated this statement, perhaps, yet there must be some truth at the bottom of it. Otherwise, why should man wait on woman at all? Why take pleasure in being agreeable to her? Why go out of his way to assist her? In other words, why should he be chivalrous? Chivali-y is the expression of man’s real, instinctive deference for woman. Although, like other instinctive feelings, it is being modified or rooted up by education and civilization, the chivalrous instinct nevertheless still makes itself felt in modern man. It impels him, when confronted with woman, to pass through three different stages. In the first one he strives to attract woman’s attention; in the second to please her; finally, to serve her. The unconcerned are highly diverted by the first. There is no end to the things a man will do to attract woman’s attention. Nothing is too absurd. One man found it necessary to spoil his patent leather shoes. He was being rowed across a lake when a girl passed by in her canoe. Without a moment's 1 * hesitation he plunged both feet into the rippling water, letting them dangle there, stupidly. Other men use other methods; some grow spry and climb fences, stumble over their own feet; somf imagine themselves the proud possessor of a voice and exercise it; others whistle out of tune or twirl their mustaches. Still others grow disconcerted and forget where they are going or lose the thread of their conversation. So much for the desire of being noticed. When it comes to pleasing wom- • en, men are more particular. Then they strive for personal perfection. The intellectual ones go about with poetry in their breast pockets and learn it by heart, ready to repeat it at the first occasion. Or they dabble into art or literature or some “ism” in order to acquire the correct pose. The more matter-of-fact puzzle over material things: whether the hair is parted in the right place; whether the red or blue tie will make the better impression. For men are vain and dress to pleate. Woman and the Ballot. A woman from Colorado has brought rejoicing to the cohorts of the antisuffragists. “The really feminine women,” she is quoted as saying, “as a rule are content to leave the governing to the men.” She herself is fond of outdoor sports, is an expert with the rifle and has slain bears and other beasts. All these, of course, are truly feminine acccimplishments. Your truly feminine woman should be prepared at an instant’s notice to drop the knitting needle or the baby’s bottle, seize her trusty rifle and sally forth to slay. Yet\this modern Diana from Colorado shrinks coyly from the ballot, we are told. Knowing that her husband was stanch .for McKinley, when her time for suffrage came she ran right out and voted so of course, and whimsically signed her name so that the ballot became void. Reasonable doubt may exist as to whether all this really is a feather in the “anti” cap, and the answer hinges upon a definition of “the really feminine woman.” This woman, when found, will be prepared to state whether or no she would have the ballot, and to her the manly man will at once doff his hat, swept low, and exclaim, “At your service, madam.” Suffrage will be hers for the asking. —Baltimore Star. New “One-Sided” Jabot.

Everything laps over from right to left this year. Even the jabots show more trimming on the left hand edge, some of them being merely a frill attached to a straight strip of insertion; the frill, of course, falling off to the left side. This jabot of line batiste and lace is attached to a high stock and there are cuffs to -match —this being one of the new fads. At the left side of the jabot is a frill and on the left side of the stock above it is a strip of the lace on which are three fancy buttons. Needlework Notes. Belts, bags and purses embroidered in raffia are making a good showing among the displays of fancy workButterflies, beetles and dragon flies, conventionalized and worked in brilliant iridescent Colors, are wonderfully beautiful in embroidery. One or two handsome embroidered

buttons are an addition to the evening coat of light cloth. The button may be worked in dainty Dresden coloring, giving a charming effect. The simple cabin stitch, done with heavy silk, is used more than ever as a finish for dressy gowns. Thiß is particularly effective for outlining panels and revers and collars and cuffs as well. i