Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-18
WHY DO MEN HATE WOMEN.
The Cynical View of A Grabbed old Bachelor
The Hour

lndE Is pr0c1S0ly Wner0 Gne 1alldCy Is. IL
lies in the assumption that because poets
have said finer things about woman than
about anythipgs else; because woman is
toasted with enthusiastic cheers at mill
ions of banquets during every twelve,
month; and because the days of court
ship are the sweetest in mans life; it
lies in the assumption that because of
these things man who hates women is
monstrosity who ought to be exiled from
the earth. But meanwhile the facts is
that there are plenty Of men who hate
women without hating woman. The
ferocity of the husband who comes home
from business) at o'clock IL the morn
ing, and finds his wife placidly sitting up
for him, may not find expression in audi
BILE language, but it has the concentrated
force of cyclone and the condensed fury
of a suppressed earthquake. He goes to
bed hating that wife whom he has sworn
to love, protect, and cherish. The more
unconscious she seemed of her delinquen-
cy the fercer does his anger burn. He
knows that the silent martyrdom she is
thus displaying is merely a trick
by which arepulse is disguisedly implied.
If she wept, or tore her hair, or called
him bad names, Or slammed down the
might challenge her to mortal combat,
and engage in that connubial duel whose
explosives are known in all their extent
only when it eliminates in the publicity
of the divorce court. But this silent sift
ing up this gentle, voiceless aspect of
having ones life gradually worn away by
the conduct of debauched consort, is
what no husband, however we'll regulated
ho no 81 oft al in q
morning!
What is the reason that all our car con-
ductors hate all women? If you think
the case is too strongly stated, ask any
car conductor who can spare time to an
swer and he will inform you that it is the
women passengers, and not the males
who make his existence burden and a
terror. He never feels safe while a wo-
man is getting into or out of the car. She
rules with such impetuosity that if the
car retain ever so little motion as she
descends from it she runs the risk of
being thrown off her feet her stupidity
never having allowed her to preceive
that the front and not the b ack handle
must be used in order that the body may
respond to the vehicles motion. Or, If
| impetuosity is not her forte, deliberation
| is and she makes her exit with SiddOnian
slowness in spite of the conductors ex-
hortation: 'Step lively, madame" If
she gets in at the Astor House she i'm
med1ately asks to be let out at Fifty
seventy street. If the car is full she
| posts herself against the entrance, block
aiding the passage. Hurried and fustered
! the conductor waits for her fare, and IN
stead of handing him dime and taking
| change like creature endowed with rea-
son, she slowly pokes out five Individual
cents from the depths of her blind alley
| of a purse. These are few of the rea-
sons why conductors hate women; but
many more remain.
WHY do businessmen hate women? Be
cause, as a rule. women do not know how
TO behave IN places OF business. IheJ
say the wrong things and they stay toe
long. After the business they ostensibly
came for is transacted they chatter about
an infnity of nothing, wearying the soul
of the businessman who is too polite or
weak-minded to get rid of them. If q
woman goes to a post office window tC
ask more than the most ordinary question
or even to do nothing more than buy q
stamp, she either expects that everybody
should make way for her in the queue (it
there is one) or she ignores the existence
of other applicants, plants herself on the
wrong side of the window, and secures
attention, to prejudice of first Corners
The way in which women behave at the
| bOxoffice windows of theatres is notori
Gus. It is said that the official who sells
seats for matinees is not kept in the
same position long. If he is he dies, so
the rule of rotation is kindly worked in
his favor and that of his co-mates in
order that they may live and not die
Such unhappy beings, men in spite OF
this proviso, would he literally pestered
to death if they did not continually brace
themselves to answer thousands of silly
and superfiuous questions with sententi-
Gus civility.
Why do men who go to the theatre hate
women? Because the latter wear hats
which are an outrage upon the persons
who sit behind them, and an evidence OF
the wearers' want OF good breeding right
feeling, and true politeness. A woman
has no more right to wear at theatre q
hat which blocks up the view than man
right to wear his hat. All women who
do so are simply nuisances, and the very
man who takes to the theatre woman
wearing such head-gear confesses in his
heart that he is ashamed of her, unless be
happens to be in love with her.
This article might be prolonged to ten
times its present length, and another
equally long might be written showing
why women hate women, an asserting
fact equally uncontrovertible. But we
| prefer to put the case. briefly, acknowledg
| ing that here and there woman may be
found SO free from the ordinary faults
of the sex she compels admiration, es
! TEEN. and affection W hereyer she mOvns
! When man finds such woman, if he be
the right sort of man, he treasures her III
his memory if he meets her but once, AND
ne makes his heart the shrine where she
is continually reyerenced shonld he have
the good fortune to pass hi5 life in her
society.
Liberty's torch Lighted.
| The grand pyrotechnic displays that
were to have been the final event in the