*Credit Where Credit Is Due There isa strange: enfoywant indiscretions of pervana of importance. Othorura tne noe Jor poatip'ix pinata life, end on tively to the doings and mide is a small boy's habit, really, homely grain beneath. Modern folk this wanting to "get something on" bes came more and more convinced our superiors. Heaven' forbid, of that the one thing which bored them curse, that we should' deem them Hbeyond all suppression of yawns was our superiors at the moment of un-pomposity. masking. Still, the habit of tamper-Feminine. Responsibility ing with springs and other inwards It is really quite extraordinary thas its advantages as well as its kow: mueh the fairer sex has had to "bad parts. to with this commendable change in.
Have we not in bookly quarters had "'Blotted 'Scutcheons" and thinking. Far more, surely, than proud historians will' ever accredit "Whispering Galleries"? Have wel them' with. For did they not not had the private but far from monotonous life of Helen' of Troy gather round for a campaign of unfolded, and, going even further abbreviating skirts and locks, of afield, have we not soon the inestiremoving some of the humbug that attaches to the age-old idea of mable Sir Galahad {feminine charm? Did they not pro dust down from with afew bold strokes that fe-Pedestal by, that clever writer John Erskine? Most of us feel an amused mining charm was not a thing to satisfaction in all "this unveiling. lose its reality as soon as its pedes-Our criticizers say that it is a loss tal had a broken. base? Milady' of restraint and ideals, But is it? feratched beneath her own surface—Much pursing of lips and raising faith Victoran vanished dover surface grown thickly inerusi of eye-brows has always accompani-fed iconoclastic gestures of this kind, jed the stuff that lay underneath. This was a bold stroke indeed and fu the past, be we of a.strietly modern age, find considerable urbane if the sth was found to be not amusement and almost nothing to the kind: that dreams: are made of, worry about, in the modern tendency that was merely @ point of view. towards up-setting pedestals, Why'
Grandiloquence—and how much of should saints keep their halos when this there has been—was all wast-ladies have' lost their crowns of fed. The masculine of the. species glory, we ask, 'The whole world in jin' particular found himself—per-fact is talking long, ranging strides {force in the position of giving in the direction of an amused ac-Jamused acceptance to the new state ceptance of the rest of the world, of affairs. It may even be now that milady, ever more susceptible to shorn of its pomposity.
And what a lot of needless tram-change than to disapproving glances, pery we of the present are wed, is beginning to mend her broker We no longer need to. plaster our-with a miserable paste of Saintliness that we don't, feel particularly anyway, if we know that cour scrutinizer is going to serape the plaster gently to find the very] ordinary texture underneath, Once upon a time people began to feel their spirits "inflating toy balloons, and arose with his torical accord to declare the divin rights of kings a myth. Then they! took matters in their own hands and saw, after the thrones had tumbled, that sometimes their own weighty personalities worked out no better in government or elsewhere than had the ceremonial pomps of royalty. Another reaction set in and inferiority complexes were much heard of—not called such, of course, as which but a modern age could evolve the Phrase? But these did not last long erther, being as they were an even more unnatural growth than the divine right of kings, The next step was to declare in favour of a little salubrious scrapping of tthe enaniel on top to find the wood's [pedestal surreptitiously. For _has rot Paris decreed that the Eton leroy is pose? The boyish masjquerade likewise is being amusedly accepted as such by the fashion de-'And therein lies the secret] the vagaries of a woman is valent of encouraging As long as pulpits rant Jand philosophers bemoan, milady has no other recourse than to continue fin her fantastic way of chosen Jaction; but let a sense of humour and her vulnerability la) that to-display too] strongly the ear-marks of the gar-leon is to be no longer truly chi fand thus another triumph {sr gistered for those who have good Jnaturedly decided to do little probing] {into traditional places, as well as for those others who decided that a good natured acceptance was the fonly possible reaction. And how! much pomposity-like leg 0' mutton sleeves—has been left behind! Jill
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