Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-02
,gsAna Baker, In New York Joul


There are two things woman cannot
do: They cannot sharpen lead pen.
ell and they cannot be magnanimous.
I've had this idea for years. I used
to Aght it when I went to school; but
Igrew cut Of it when / got into the
world.
The pencil business she will concede
when forced into the corner, but the
magnanimity, never.
Men DO succeed in Disgusting them.
selves in womsn's clothes occasionally,
bat true woman, never. It is not
only because abe is knock.kneed and
walks with her toes turned out The
woman organization is deeper than
that. Put her in trousers and let her
raise beard and smoke cigarettes in
smoking car, and she will 90 out and
leave the door open in the coolest
weather expecting somebody else to
get up and shut it. All the whiskers
and pantaloons in the world will not
overcome that popularity.
It's sheer woman.
haven't been woman twenty.
eight years for nothing.
I've had on mans clothes, too; that's
what want to tell about.
You will say that was more I'm.
womanly than to walk out and leave
the door open.
Perhaps it was. Women have to
lay aside sometimes a good deal of
superAuous weakness and nonsense.
The truth is the idea of women hav.
ing so much more sensibility than
men isn't good working hypothesis.
1t don't work at all when you take
boy and girl and put them before
room full of people. The boy bushes,
stammers, trips over his own feet and
wants to dive into side room. But
the girl stands up to it like veteran.
So on the stage. Ask any manager.
Women have no fear of an audience,
and they are ten times harder to guy
than men.
For the average man and woman
commend me to horse.car. Did you
ever see the boarding house-keeper
get ON Third avenue car on Satur-
day with her husband9 She's been to
Washington market, and she has
bought two hams, a string of founders
and basket of onions.
She takes seat between brocade
and broadcloth, and plants her hams
Il mean the Washington market
hams-beside her on the seat. .- .
Now watch the little husband.
1t annoys him. He knows that
everybody in the car is annoyed, and
he says apologetically:
Lave me; I'll take thin beyant the
doore, on the platform"
"What for?' says the matron, brid-
ling instrntly. They're hahrmin' no
one"
Then he is squelched, and, unable to
face the sentiment of the car, goes out
and talks to the driver.
Where did that poor mechanic get
sensibility?
If l wasn't woman l wouldn t dare
to say all this. Men never do. Why3
They're too magnanimous.
Did you ever go to a police court?
| suppose not. Well, go there if
you want to study the sexes.
There is popular notion that all
the abused wives refuse to appear
against their husbands when the hus-
bands are arrested. That they forgive
them and take them back with tears,
to be beaten over again.
Who gets up the ideap
Men! Newspaper men. Suppose
you ask some of the newspaper women
about it2
They win tell you, if you can get
them in candid vein, that, as a rule,
these women only love men that abuse
them. They have dull way of wor-
shipping power when they don't and
can't worship anything else.
Whipping posts are mems inven-
ton, not women's, If the women
that is the intslligent women-had
thsirway they'd have spanking posts
put up alongside of them.
Co-punishment ought to go hand in
hand with eo-education. .
Why do talk this way about my
sex? sra, .-.. ..
Because my sex wants little whole
some truth told. 1t will do em good. |
That's why.
Because if women are going to en-
ter mems 6elds--and they are--they
ought to have two or three Of the
manly virtues in addition to their
own, and magnanimity, as distin-
guished from virtue, is one Of them,
and horse sense, as opposed to senti-