Thus, very often the pretty, though less educated, ballet-girl, wins the man whom her more refined and less self-assertive sister--the ordinary society girl--is sorry to lose.
The suffragettes are too intent just now on getting "Votes for Women" to listen to proposals of marriage, but when they succeed in obtaining universal suffrage I should think they would have little difficulty in obtaining brave husbands, for the suffragettes have courage.

These women, however, are serious, and I do not think that men in the West, judging from what I have seen, like very serious wives.

So perhaps after all the ballet-girl and actresses will have more chances in the marriage (I had almost written money) market than the suffragettes.
I may be mistaken in my theories.

I have never had the opportunity of discussing the matter with a millionaire or an actress, nor have I talked about the stage with any of the ladies who make it their home, but unless it is their superb independence and their ability to throw off care and to act their part which attract men who are looking for wives, I cannot account for so many actresses marrying so well.
What, however, we may ask, is the object of the theater?
Is it not amusement?
But when a serious play ending tragically is put on the boards is that amusement?
The feelings of the audience after witnessing such a play must be far from pleasant, and sometimes even moody; yet tragedies are popular, and many will pay a high price to see a well-known actor commit most objectionable imitation-crimes on the stage.

A few weeks before this chapter was written a number of men of different nationalities were punished for being present at a cockfight in Shanghai.