Life — November 3, 1910 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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FIG 3. “THE COMMUTRIX” PELISSE IN THIS WRAP THE RATHER ERIE EFFECT IS OBTAINED BY JOINING A DAY’S SHOPPING WITH APPLIQUE HOT-FOOT-WORK TO A SUBURBAN TRAIN, ES BY BUNCHES OF FREIGHT CARS AND HELD BY LITTLE waits. (A UP ALONG THE LI THIS TRAIN MAY BE CAUGHT HAT DOES NOT NECESSARILY GO WITH THIS PATTERN.) that are so radical as to leave nothing to be desired. “We are therefore proceeding upon tne following assumption: “The object of fashions is to entice the men and to rule them at the same time. The one fundamental thing about all men is that they tire of old styles FOR THE SPORTSWOMAN HAT AND COAT OF BROWN MUPTI WITH TRANSPARENT DESIGNS IN FLSSM COLOR AT HEM. To keep them in subjection it is abso- lutely necessary to startle them con- stantly. Woman, who fundamentally is always the same, must constantly ap- pear to be something entircly new and different. This is where the supreme art comes in. Minor matters are to arrange the new effects in such a manner as to appeal most to men. All this is in the line of the highest art.’’ Tt will be seen from this statement what the new movement means. With this we append some new designs calcu- lated to give an idea of the great re- form now in progress. They are by no means final, but some of them will no doubt be adopted by the board of gov- ernors. In the meantime, we appeal to every American woman to join this great movement, which will enable you to buy more clothes than ever, will give you many more varieties to choose from and will place’ the whole matter of clothes wearing on the highest artistic plane. Julia Ward Howe and Woman Suffrage RS. HOWE was the model leader of the suffragists. She came slowly to belief in the need of votes for women, but once a convert to that view she advocated it to the end. More influential than anything she said in be- half of women suffra was her own personality as a suffragist. It counted for a great deal that she was a lady, and as notable as a lady as she was as a woman, In her life and in all its re- lations there was everything to admire and scarcely anything to criticise. To the very end she was a splendid figure of a woman—able, gentle, modest, faith- ful; devoted to the best things of life; never upset by her own distinction nor the honors and affection that embow- ered her. It is to be remarked that her concern for woman suffrage dates from forty years ago, when the movement had gath- ered to itself some of the enthusiasms that were left over from the anti-slavery movement. As long ago, but in a dif- ferent environment, it appealed to an- other very noble woman—Florence Nightingale. Whether in its present manifestations the movement appeals to such spirits as Mrs. Howe and Miss Nightingale may be questioned, and it would be interesting to know; but Jane Addams is somewhat such a character and it appeals to her. These three women accomplished what they did accomplish not by hard knocks but by the greatness of their deserts and the respect that they in- spired. Their courage was complete but their methods were gentle. What they got they won. They did not seize it by main strength. It will be by the agreement of such women as these in favor of woman suf- frage that that concession will be won if it ever is won. Their qualities and powers and methods are those that are effectual. But women of their sort—so far as there are any—are still much divided about the expediency of woman suffrage. EB. S. M. TO AN EXPERIMENTER “MY EARS TAIL CUT. MAVE BEEN CLIPPED AND MY AREN'T YOU SATISFIED? "* comicbooks.com