in order to attract attention and admiration from other sources? His hedge of reserve and manner might drive a good woman to take the bit in her teeth and try to clear the hurdles in a domestic handicap where the entrance fee had caused her to stake every thing? Would not a man whose prosaic hauteur of bearing and indifferent domesticity had eliminated his wife be indictable as "an accessory before the fact," if a verdict were found against her?

Cheap jokes about "the domestic yellow peril" were retailed by Antis who were charged in turn with sordid cupidity by the frights who upheld the equal suffrage propaganda. One brazen woman maintained that most women know so much about men they do not want to vote for them. Her looks, revolting and dissolute, indicated both curiosity and "paying the price" for all the information she had received, first hand. Another stated that she had "fought shy of the woman suffrage germs, so fatal to home life," with an emphasis on the "home." It was manifestly a far cry from the "home life" period of that person to the present hour of her professional career. Another of the entertainers decried the possible escape of the beautiful white dove of peace from the gilded cage in which she found an abode, if there should be a wreck on the reef of Woman's Party standards because her "dearie" and she could not agree. "Better let a dull ominous silence run the even tenor of its way after a few perfunctory inquiries, than stir things up unnecessarily," was her advice. In the program there was only a weak attempt at argument, in fact nothing to enlist the attention of seekers for amusement, except the innuendo, the proximity to vulgarity, and indelicate suggestion.

Sometimes the sentiments were conveyed to the auditors through one act comedies. Again topical verses rendered by alleged singers, while monologues that afforded fancy dancers an opportunity to "get their breath," helped other crippled sallies to get over the footlights seeking some consideration from an afflicted listener.

Whatever line of amusement was attempted, broadness and indecency were employed.

If conditions can deteriorate in such a place as The Gayety Music Hall during a so-called spicy, fashionable show, things were certainly going from bad to worse.

Birth control, the latest delusion of mental featherweights who essay eugenics and advanced ideas, thus meeting on a common footing with depraved women, was added to all that had gone before to bring the talents of the producing company "up to the minute."

Motion pictures closed the performance. The truth is, the sheriff should have performed that function. "Nude Woman with Sandals," "Nude Woman with a Red Carnation," and other art thrills from the Hossman Montrass gallery, the brush of Ignacio Tuloaga, and the temptations, pitfalls and other penalties of being beautiful were displayed, all "played up," as they say professionally, to emphasize the nakedness of the subjects.

The climax of a thoughtful plan and unfortunate suggestion made by Uncle Orson was reached when the family returned home the evening of their visit to the Gayety Music Hall. Little was said by any member of the party during the return trip. A more disconcerted family group never drew up to a table for light refreshments than the Adamsons, when they assembled to partake of delicacies Aunt Norma had thoughtfully furnished. With the exception of Uncle Orson, all, if consulted would have chosen at once to seek the seclusion of their own rooms. The night had proved one of continued frustrations. To Aunt Norma and Ephraim it was a spell of endless embarrassments.

Annabelle had been put out of countenance by her experiences. The atmosphere of her uncle's home ever since her arrival had been strange. The conduct of her brother was distressing, and too deep for her young, inexperienced mind to fathom. The startling adventure with Aunt Norma at the Daybreak Club had shattered a faith she still tried to cling to, built upon the foundation of early religious training. When finally Uncle Orson, the well meaning, but sadly misled host, had taken his niece and the others to a place of disgraceful scenes and coarse-spoken sentiments Annabelle wondered, in her attempt to explain all these mysteries, if the morals and traditions of respectable people had gone down in a general wreck before the storm of improper amusement clamor.

In calm, deliberate voice, as soon as the little party was seated at the table, Uncle Orson expressed his views of the events just preceding. The remarks were addressed to no one in particular. Each member of the family, nevertheless, gathered his full meaning. If he

had been pleading before a jury for mercy and consideration, to be exercised in behalf of a client charged with an offense against society, a violation of the law, his impressiveness could not have been greater. Without a drift of personality, in a masterpiece of verbal regret, Uncle Orson lamented the tendency of the times. "The impositions practiced upon unsuspecting persons who fall to the rear in the rapidly advancing column of cosmopolitan peoples because they have neither the time nor desire to keep in step with the frivolities, or worse, of so-called popular amusements. The adopting by women of vulgarity, grossness, undignified vagaries to imitate and duplicate the vices of men."

"The sins of the sexes," continued the champion of the cause of "old ways" and "old days," "have become correlative instead of irrelevant. The sacred mission of fair woman once was to bind her husband to her with a thousand ties of love, patience and good example. Now, in too frequent and flagrant cases, she seeks to lasso an 'affinity,' 'soul mate' or 'heart love' and rope him to her, while they live in licentiousness and defiance of law and order. Their sin is an invitation to less prominent and more inconspicuous members of society to fly the flag of immorality in the face of the Countess of proper living-matrondom.

"The responsibility of this sin rests somewhere. Who wants to be answerable for it? Immodest clothes, drinking, smoking, and familiarity of action and speech, if they do not lower the morals of women, certainly do not elevate the standard of their sex in the opinion of masculine associates. Suggestive dressing among women has gone from an extreme to the legal limit. Nothing is more ridiculous than a pretense at modesty on the part of such butterflies of fashion. They bare arms and necks, partially secrete the balance of their person under a thin veiling of finery, flaunt their legs in full