they are of it women � the women of ambition artistic � act anyhow all the time they lie like anything they never show their true colors � or very rarely if you want to know the truth you must see through their pretty petty back to the actual conditions behind them which are and driving them very few if any have a real grasp on what i call life they have no understanding of and no love for philosophy they do not care for the of and knowledge � book knowledge the � well let the men have that your average woman cares most � almost entirely � for the and the of her own little world is her life going right is she getting along is her skin smooth is her face still pretty are there any wrinkles are there any gray hairs in sight what can she do to win one man how can she make herself impressive to all men are her feet small are her hands pretty which are the really nice places in the world to visit do men like this trait in women or that what is the latest thing in dress in in hats in shoes how can she keep herself and span these are all leading questions with her � strong deep vital painful let the men have knowledge fame force � that is their business the real man her man should have some one of these things if she is really going to love him very much lo a at forty i am talking about the semi artistic woman with ambition as for her she to these poetical details and they make her life poor little frail things � fighting with every weapon at their command to buy and maintain the courtesy of the world truly i pity women i pity the strongest most ambitious woman i ever saw and by the same token i pity the poor helpless hopeless and without an idea above a who never had and never will have a look in on anything i know � and there is not a beating feminine heart anywhere that will contradict me � that they are all struggling to buy this superior masculine strength against which they can lean to which they can fly in the hour of terror it is no answer to my statement no contradiction of it to say that the strongest men the sympathy of the tenderest women these are facts and my statement is true i am dealing with women now not men when i come to men i will tell you all about them our modern stage world gives the ideal outlet for all that is most worth while in the youth and art of the female sex it matters not that it is you cannot that of any individual case until afterward at any rate to me and so far as women are concerned it is distinguished brilliant appropriate important i am always interested in a well recommended woman of the stage what did we talk about � miss e and i the stage a little some and dramatic critics that we had casually known her interest in books and the fact that she had posed frequently for those interesting which display a beautiful young woman showing her teeth or holding aloft a cake of soap or a cream she had done some of this work in the past � and had been well paid for it because she was takes me in hand ii beautiful and she showed me one of her pictures in a current magazine a set of i found that my very able patron was doing everything that should be done to make the trip comfortable without show or fuss many have this or gift sometimes i think it is a natural trait of the english � of their superior classes anyhow they go about so they make fine and i have always been told that english direction and english are thorough is this true or is it not at this writing i do not know not only were all our chairs on deck here in a row but our chairs at table had already been arranged for � four seats at the captain s table it seems that from previous voyages on this ship knew the captain he also knew the of the company in england no doubt he knew the chief steward anyhow he knew the man who sold us our tickets he knew the head waiter at the � he had seen him or been served by him somewhere in europe he knew some of the of the of old wherever he went i found he was always finding somebody whom he knew i like to get in tow of such a man as and see him the seas i like to see what he thinks is important in this case there happens to be a certain intellectual and spiritual he likes some of the things that i like he with my point of view hence so far at least we have got along admirably i speak for the present only i would not answer for my moods or change of emotions at any time well here were the two side by side both arrayed and with them in a third chair the short stout red haired mr g i observed the personality of miss x here a at forty was some one who on sight at a glance attracted me far more significantly than ever miss e could i cannot tell you why exactly in a way miss e appeared at moments and from certain points of view � delicacy refinement sweetness of mood � the more attractive of the two but miss x with her face her dainty little chin her narrow eyes drew me quite like a i liked a certain snap and vigor which shot from her eyes and which 