Life — March 20, 1913 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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570 -LIFE- The World pee world was finished, but there still confronted the gods the greatest difficulty of all. “How,” ruminated Zeus, wrinkling his brows, to be got into the contraption?” “TI move we put the thing on a pay-as-you-enter basis,” spoke up ZEsculapius, in the interest of the doctors of the future. But Apollo was not willing. “Many poets,” he objected, “haven't the price.” “And we can’t afford,” added Pallas Athene, “to throw obstacles in the way of poor but honest parents.” She was thinking, of course, of the boys who, from the humblest beginnings, g-ow up to be rich and found libraries. “Well, people might be ushered into the world,” suggested Hephestus, timidly. “That's just like a blacksmith!” sneered the ox-cyed Hera. “ Fancy women ushers!" Aphrodite tossed her head. “I wouldn't be a prude!” she exclaimed. “If women want to usher why shouldn't they?” “Of course they needn’t wear uniforms,” remarked Artemis. Here Ares burst into a loud guffaw, Hermes hotly demanded what he was laughing at, some- body threw an inkstand and several goddesses screamed. That is to say, nothing to the point was accomplished. And so it is (says the legend) that the world finds itself populated in a hap- hazard and more or less unsatisfactory manner. are people ever Men and Women, Merely Their Clothes HAT is the difference in temperature be- tween the clothes of men and of women? And what effect does this difference have upon our temper and moral fibre? In the evening a woman wears in the house the thinnest of waists, and usually only one thickness next to the skin. At the same time a man has on a covering which consists of usually a woolen undergarment, a shirt, a waist-coat, and on top of this a coat. In ad- dition to these, he carries a stiff collar and a cravat. In a temperature of seventy degrees the man is usually clothed about thirty degrees warmer than a woman (if we may hazard a fair guess). The woman has other advantages. In case she feels cold she may throw a light shawl or wrap over her shoulders. If a man is swelter- ing, however, he may not remove his coat. e So far as the temperature is concerned, a a : ie woman's clothes are much more logical, for TRY AGAIN. when she goes out into the cold winter air she have yet been slowly learning some- equalizes the change in temperature by cover- thing about their clothes of late, at least so far as the temperature of ing herself with furs and they now wear summer weight our house interiors is concerned. No The men, who are naturally much duller — suitings all winter. But even this is | wonder they are becoming mollycod- in their sense of garniture than women, only a step in the right direction. Men — dles and the women pachydermous! need to be on an equality with women. comicbooks.com