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HowManWill Look Men Copyright, 1915, by the Slur Company. Great Urltuin Rights Reserved. Womaiivbtej: A Charming Suffragette Leader Describes the Suffragette Ideal, Always-in-White, Short- Haired, Beardless, Refined and Perambulator Pushing, Ballot-Made Man of 1940 M ISS ELIZABETH ALDRICH, the beauti ful girl suffragette, who joined General Rosalie Jones in her advance upon Washington, who has organized the Inwood Club Nursery, which provides for the care of babes while their mothers are away from home working for suffrage, and who has written many brochures on the feminine movement, which have become campaign classics, has a vision of the new man. She has told this newspaper of the new man as she sees him. She pictures the man of 1940 as she ‘believes he will be, and as leaders of the feminist movement hope he will be and expect him to become. Miss Aldrich is the great granddaughter of Avis Keene, the great Quaker suffragette, and friend of John Greenleaf Whittier and William Lloyd Garrison. Some of her associates in the suffrage movement believe that the gifted granddaughter inherited from the genius great grandmother that power with which certain members of the quaint sect of Friends believe themselves endowed, the power of prophecy. At any rate Miss Aldrich’s vision of man as she expects him to be when moulded by the forces that will accompany recognized equality of the sexes is interesting, especially when re garded as expressing the expectations of suffragists. By Elizabeth Aldrich 1 SEE a new man. The forces which have changed the traditional life of women are also chang ing the traditional life of man. While these forces are developing in her self reliance and independence of thought and action, they are making him a kinder, more tender, more imaginative creature. The man from which he is emerging was nagging, selfish, ugly, domineering, cruel, ruth less, imperious. The new man will stop fault finding. He will be considerate, deserving for the first time in history the title “gentleman." He will be better to look at. ■He will cease being a creature of prey! The man of 1940, held up in the schools as the model man will be handsomer because he will be more harmoniously developed. His mind, corresponding to his body, will be more- symmetrical. -The physical ideals of that time will be those of the old Greeks, the Olympic games, not those of the prize ring. I see the man of 1940 and of succeeding generations always in white. No man will then wear a dark suit either Winter or Sum mer, because he will know, and knowing will realize, that dark clothes are unhygienic and unbecoming. They are unhygienic because they do not show the dirt. Soiled spots could remain indefinitely in them, breeding germs. Now a man may look clean without being so. Then he will be only as clean as he looks and he will take pains to look and be clean. We need not fear that the era will be one of the long haired man. Instead he will wear his hair closely cropped for the same reason that he will wear white clothes, for cleanliness. He will keep his face smooth shaven, for the same reason. •, Women, I do not think, will ever wear short hair, because it is not becoming. The model suffragette man will not be a creatore whose muscles bulge. The ideal will not be to make a pair of biceps too enormous and neglect the muscles of the legs, or to de velop both at the expense of the brain. Sym metry will be the aim of all men and all men will be graceful as Adonises. No man will then go into training to fight Jack John son, even if he desired to, because it would make him ugly. This man will share in the care of the children. It will be a very common sight then to see a man pushing a perambu lator. With father in service there' will be fewer flirtations between policemen and nursery mafds while the baiby nearly chokes himself to death on the carriage strap. He will have dropped many of his horrid habits. He will swear less than he does now and he won’t chew tobacco. He will not sit with his feet above his head. The man of 1940 will come home from the office earlier and he won’t come home with a • grouch,” Fortune making will be secondary to character development with him and he will think as much of how to help humanity as how to- grow rich. The man of that time won’t make corners in anything. He willl not in dulge either in pugilism or fraud. I cannot see the man of that time killing for sport. A man won’t go to South Africa and rush back again with a reputation as a hero because he killed animals in their jungle homes. The man of 1940 will not even tease a cat. He will not puli a dog’s ears, and the boy who pins a tin can to a dog’s tail will be severely dealt with as he deserves, for the new man will abhor suffering and will never cause it if he can help it. I cannot see the man of my vision eating meat, for his character will be gentle and we become like what we eat. Because he will be gentle-hearted and active-minded, I can see him eating only fruits and nuts and vegetables. The character of a man's jokes will change. The jokes will be clean and they will assail no class. There will be no mother-in- law joke, no old-maid joke. Women will, in fact, cease to "be the butt of all man’s jokes. I hope that laws will be enacted to enforce this new chivalry. His speech will be moderate when he speaks of women. He will per mit us to drop our wings. Hereto fore we have been in his speech winged creatures. We have been “angels” to him at one end of the scale, and “birds” or “chickens,” “squabs,” “geese,” “wrens’ or "hens,” according to his humor. All those wings, thank heaven, he will allow us to shed forever. He will, without comment, allow a woman the privilege of being old and homely if she wishes. He will not by his silly attitude of loving only the freshness of youth drive us to lie about our ages. The worst thing lie can say about us then, according to his own ideas, will not be “old hen.” He will not use the name of any bird in describing us, and he will not mention age. For the first time in all the cen turies he will approve of women. We have been called naggers ever since we can remember, but it isn’t true. Men have been the naggers. Down through the ages they have found fault with women. They have held up the ideal of the old-fash ioned woman and then found fault with her because she was old-fash ioned. They told her she had no sense. They informed her that she was “puttyheaded,” that she didn’t know anything. Then when she pushed into the shop and office, and even on the police force, they began to nag about that. They said she was bold and womanly, and poor woman cried out “Well, what do you want?” Men didn’t answer because they didn't know. They didn’t want what they had. Never has man ap proved of woman since the time Adam slunk behind Eve and placed the blame of the fruit incident upon her. The new man will cease this cavilling. He will be satisfied with woman as she will then be. The man of the fu ture as I see him will have a compen sation for foregoing the last delights of the prize ring. He will revive the lost art of writing love- letters. Instead of sending her a tele gram or of telephon ing her he will write her a love-letter. You see, there will be so complete an under standing at that time between men and women that they will not fear breach of promise cases. There will be more marriage than ever before. Almost ev eryone will marry. There will be very Eew exceptions, mere ly -a few persons who greatly prefer living alone, those by nature "soli tary,” because men and women will have outlived their dislike for each other —that antagonism, springing from a sense of inequality, that caused women to hate and fear men and men to de spise women. Hand in hand, as true partners in life, they will walk the path of mutual under standing. Men will no longer puzzle women nor women baffle men, for with recognized equality will come under standing, and with understanding can dor. Custom will no longer place a pre mium upon lies be tween men and worn- The New Men Wili Be Handsomer. He Will Be Cleaner. HU Hair Will Be Close Cropped. His Clothes Will Be Beautiful. He Will Drop His Hideous Whiskers. This Composite Shows on One Side the Old Man and on tfie Other Side the New. The Six-Hour Baby Watch of the Ballot-Made Man. Horn 7 Miss Elizabeth Aldrich, the Girl Suffragette, and Granddaughter of the Quaker Prophetess, Avis Keene, Who Describes This Page Her Vision of “The New Man.” en, because they will no longer hate and fear each otljer. There will be a change of proverbs about men. The old “The way to a man's heart is through the stomach” will be for- » gotten. We will say, “The way to a man's heart is through his imagination." There will be a new chivalry, but it will not be based on exploitation of sex. The knight who rode forth with his lady’s glove on his shield was not the brave, unselfish person he seemed. He expected a reward. The reward was the lady. The new chivalry will be fine and impersonal, based upon respect, for the opinion of woman. When a woman's opinion is backed by the ballot the humor of the opinion vanishes. There will be sex harmony. Heretofore there has been sex discord. The two sexes will take counsel together instead of striving for dominion, one by force, the other by subtle ties and deceit. Hitherto we have iiad much of the mother ideal. There will he more of the father ideal in the home. I have seen that mothers and sons are the greater friends in the family and fathers and daughters are in closer friendship than mother and daughter and father and son. Many girls make serious mistakes because they have not had the benefit of the man's point of view. Father will be more than the household cash register. Whatever the standard of morals it will be the same for man and woman. The double standard of morals will go into the scrap heap where it belongs. The man of 1940 will cease to believe that he can buy love. Women will not simulate love in order to secure a home and alimony. There will be few divorces because men will not find women so deceitful and women will not have to complain that a man neglects » for money making. Men will not make at fortunes then because they will not want to make them. < They will have less cunning and more usefulness as members of society. The real reason for the antagonism of the sexes, for there has been indeed a duel of the sexes throughout the world's history, was that the traditional manner of life caused each to be oversexed. The man was too masculine. The woman was too feminine. But in the now leavening movement woman is developing qualities that have been considered masculine and men are developing their feminine sides. The result will he a perfect sex halauce and a complete understanding. The new man, at his best, that model which will lie upheld in the schools and in literature, and of whom we will see specimens in life, will have the justice of a Lincoln, the balance of an Emerson, the philosophy of a Marcus Aurelius, the frankness of a Brieux, the deli cacy of a Maeterlinck and the imagination of a William Blake. Heaven speed the day of his arrival! Exactly How You Must Wear Your Corsets Paul Swan, Whom Suf fragettes Think the Most Beautiful Man in New York. He Danced in This Costume at the Suffragette Production of the Greek Play M Lvsistrata.” A BOUT corsets, the unexpected has hap pened—twice. First, medical opinion on the subject has quite generally re versed itself in the last dozen years. Since corsets have ceased to be instruments of tor lure the dociors have discovered that most women are better off with than without them. And now the whole matter has been made the subject of a public scientific investiga tion, resulting in a set of rules prescribing what kind of corsets to wear and how to wear them. This is the work of a commit tee of scientfsts appointed by the London Council of the Incorporated Institute of Hy- geine, whose president is Sir William Ben nett, K. C. V. O., F. R. C. S. Following are the principal points of the committee’s report: (4) Than owing to the spread of know ledge regarding the importance of freedom of movement and the need of physical exer cise in strengthening the muscles of the hack and abdomen, the objectional rigid cor sets of the past are becoming much less worn and are gradually being replaced by lighter and more flexible corsets, constructed on hygienic lines. In regard to the construction of corsets, the instructions say: (1) The corset should be sufficiently flexi ble to allow of free movement of the body in every direction. t (2) The corset should be constructed so as to exert pressure, only, on the lower part of the abdomen—the direction, of the pres sure being upwards and backwards. (.°») The corset should be quite loose above, so that no pressure is exerted on the lower ribs and upper part of the abdomen, as any pressure in this region tends to interfere •with tin freedo-m of respiration and also to produce injurious compression- It is equally important, continues the re port, to have the corset properly adjusted, as to obtain the right corset to begin with, in order to ensure proper and healthful support. The wrong adjustment of the right corset may be followed by injurious effects, both in re gard to health and symmetry of figure. Wom en are therefore urged to pay particular at tention to the following instructions: (1) Before putting the corset on, see that tiie back lacings are open widely (not less than 6 in. to 81n. with two conveniently long hoops at the waist line for adjustment # purposes. (2) Stand erect before a mirror (so that you can see what you are doifig, and so as to be able to adjust the corset without hav ing to bend down), brace back the shoulders, draw in the abdomen and support the weight of the body upoxi the front part of the soles of the feet. (IS) Put the corset round the body and fasten the busks in front from below up wards. (4) Bend down and fasten the suspenders to the stockings well inside the knee, and having once more assumed the erect atti tude, pull the corset as low ddwh on the body as i‘t will comfortably settle. (This is best done by a diagonal pull on each side, first holding the right upper edge with the right hand, and pulling down the left low er edge with the left hand, and then re versing the process with the left hand above and the right below). , The report concludes with some general remarks, among which Is a warning that care- * ful measurements should always be taken be fore a cotfet is made or purchased.