Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-10
DIsRAELI ON WOMAN.
Some Private Opinions of the Great

 Might hush the throbbng of this life of mine. DESIRABLE ON WOMAN. Some Private Opinions of the Great English Statesman. London Correspondence of the New York World.l The late Earl Beaconsfeld was certainly one of the most cynical men of his day, nor ! is it altogether astonishing that his nature | inclined in that direction. As Benjamin d Israeli, member of a despised race, he | found himself, at the outset of his political and literary career, at the greatest possible | disadvantage. He had to do everything for himself. No one lent him helping hand. l The aristocracy, which was then far more in- | fuential than it is now, looked upon him with unconcealed scorn, and it pleased socie- | ty from the very beginning to ridicule him. ! But his intense energies trampled upon all l that opposed them. The privileged classes began by hating him. They ended by fear ing him. He learned to know all their foi- oles, their weaknesses and their meannesses, l and when he was in the plenitude of his power, as he shortly before his death, he twisted the House of Lords around his finger at will, and was, in the truest of the words, triumphant alike over the accident of l his birth and over the prejudices of caste. He publicly declared that he ruled mankind 1 by despising it, and his books, his speeches and his actions combine to prove that his | cynicism was real, and not merely assumed for occasional use Nothing more distinctly shows his habitual tone of thought than the contents of well-thumbed little MS. note book, which a literary friend of mine has re- gently had the good fortune to light upon while overhauling a box of miscellaneous l rubbish in small shop in the neighborhood of Clare market, London This important nl' ia 1a11 nI O1nn of pages, bound in faded Russia and somewhat stained by damp. Inside the cover is Disra- ellis autograph; and ninety-eight of the 1 pages are closely written over both sides by the same hand. It is difficult to assign date to the MS, but I should fancy from in ternal evidence, that the greater portion of it must have been set down about the year 1945. Every line of it is interesting and en- nently characteristic of the writer. It is clear however, that the contents of the note book were not intended for publication, at all events in their present form, for Disraeli more than once in his books dwells upon the | necessity that exists for the who desires l to succeed to keep on good terms with the ! fair sex, and it is perfectly certain that many of these witty cynicisms are enough to set I every woman in the world in arms against 1 their author.
 am permitted by my friend to transcribe l for the benefit of the readers of the World l some of the more striking of the entries in E this unique, commonplace book, and I pro- pose in the present letter to collect those which more particularly and pointedly deal | with the attractive subject of woman. l Let me, however, disciaim sympathy with ! the more rough and ungallant of the senti- ments expressed. I think that Disrael has | treated the sex abominably. Still I cannot I avoid occasional laughing with him. for his reflections, though not always just, are gene 1 rally amusing. Here is a first budget of ex- tracts:
 f'Coquettes give their blossoms to their ! lovers and their thorns to their husbands ''When woman has lost one battle she l rarely wins another against the same foe. "A blush often announces the departure as | well the arrival of shame. l ''Why do the Germans make the moon masculine? Surely we are justified in re- | garding her as feminine, since she is essen \ tially changeable.
 t'Men are people who make rules; women ! are people who make exceptions. ''It is recorded that God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. , | It would perhaps have been impolitic in \ Moses to hint more directly that woman was made in very different mould. The con- clusion, however, is obvious. ''There is marriage in heaven; neither ! is there any heaven in marriage. "A beauty without wit seems to me to re- semble bait without any hook in it. t'I believe that there are some women who wear petticoats simply lest they should be ! mistaken for men.
 s'There is this difference between passion | and love-the one breeds headaches, the oth- CT breeds heartaches; but neither would be ! dangerous if there were no fools in the world. l Glove certainly increases the population ! of the world, but I doubt whether it adds \ much to that of heaven. 'sOf all the women whom have known ! chiefly remember those who forgot them selves.
 s'It is quite possible for man to respect a l woman so much that she shall despise him. ssIf man does not take his wife to church l the chances are that, sooner or later, he will | be obliged to follow her thither. stAdam in Paradise must have slept very peacefully-until he had the misfortune to | lose his rib.
 "A woman is fattered by the love even of ! a beggar in rags.
 s'Marriage is much like spacious birdcage set in garden on a winter day. The ins would be out and the outs would be in. Glove, like fire, is liable to be extin- | guished by overmuch stirring. | "A good woman wearies man; bad one | worries him.
 | ssIt is often not until a woman feels that she is too old to be loved by man that she l seeks to be loved by God ssThe word 'curious' means quaint as well l as inauisitive. Woman, in both senses of the 1 word is curious animal. l ssMan is substantive; woman is an adjec- tive
 I Addition is the bounden duty of bach ] elor; when he has mastered it multiplication will follow as matter of course. ssThe two most difficult things are to paint
 picture on running water and to convince a l woman who does not wish to be convinced. | .sMan sometimes calls woman goddess, ! but he would not love her if she were one. l This fact doubtless, accounts for the parti- \ .1:4 ,eI> hx1+ +bo of Tod for the daughters of men in the antediluvian ! period. The daughters of God must have l been little too ethereal.
 ssIt does not speak well for the fairer sex
 that, as rule, he best succeeds among wo-
 men that has the lowest opinion of them. ! 'tIt is perhaps extraordinary that more
 marriages do not turn out unhappily, since
 the woman generally marries to get into the
 world, while the man as generally marfles to get out of it.
 ssThe great argument against the admis-
 sion of women to public positlons IS her ma
 bility to be punctual.
 "A woman may not have religion, yet
 she always has deity.
 .sMost women feel fiattered when they are
 charged with little weaknesses of which they
 are not g1ilsy; perhaps because they know
 that her faults ara so often woman's chie1
 charms.
 "A man will return rather to her who hal
 deceived him than to her whom he has de
 ] ceived.
 :'It is well to remember that a womani
 eyes and ears are not all at the same side O.
 her head
 s'If woman were by nature what she trie
 ! to make herself by art she would be dread
 fully discontented."
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