Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-12-03
why Do Men HatG Women q?


ply would be: "Bnt men do not
hate women" That is precisely
where the fallacy is. 1t lies in the
assumption that because poets
have said finer things about women
than about any thing else; because
woman is toasted with enthusiastic
cheers at millions Of banquets dur
ing every twelve months and be-
cause the days Of courtship are the
sweetest in a mans life tiles in the
assumption that because Of these
things a man who hates women is
a monstrosity who ought to be eX-
lied from the earth. But meanwhile
the fact is that there are plenty OF
men who hate women without
hating woman. The ferocity of
the husband who comes home (lrom
busIness) at three o'clock in the
morning, and finds his wife placid
ly sitting up for him, may not find
expression in audible language,
butit 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, pro-
tect and cherish. The more uncon.
scious she seems of her delinquen-
cy the fercer does his anger burn.
He knows that the silent martyr
dom she is thus displaying is mere
ly trick by which arepulSe is dis
guisedly implied. If she wept, or
tore her hair, or called him bad
names, or slammed down the novel
she had been reading, then he
might challenge her to mortal com
bat, and engage in that connubial
duel whose expletives are known
in all their extent only when it Gu
inmates in the publicity of the di-
vorce Court. But this silent sitting
up, this gentle, voiceless aspect Of
having ones life gradually worn
away, IS what no husband, however
well regulated he mas be, can
stand-at three o'clock in the
morning!
What is the reason that all car
conductors hate all women? If
you think the case is too strongly
stated, ask any car conductor who
can spare time to answer, and ne
will inform you that it is the wo-
men passengers, and not the males,
who make his existence a burden
and a terror. He never feels safe
while woman is getting into or
out Of the car. She rushes with
such impetuosity that if the car
retain ever so little motion rs she
decends from it, she runs the risk
of being thrown off her feet, her
stupidity never having allowed her
to perceive that the front and not
the back handle must he used in
order that the body may respond
to the vehicles motion. Or if i'm
petuOslty is not her forte, dclibera-
tion is, and she makes exit with
Siddonian slowness in spite Of the
conductors eXhOrtation: "Step
lively, madame" If she gets IN
at the Astor House, she Immediate
" asks to be let ont at Fiity-seycnth
street. If the car is full, she posts
herselfagainst the entrance, block
aiding the passage. Hurried and
nustered, the conductor waits for
her fare, and instead OF handing
him dime and taking change like
a creature endowed with reason,
she slowly pokcs out five individual
cents from the depths Of her bind
alley of purse. These are a few
of the reasons why conductors hate
women but many more remain.
Why do business men hate wo-
men? Because, as arule, women DO
not know how to behave in places
of business. They come at the
wrong time; they say the wrong
things, and they stay too long
After the business they Osiensibly
came for is transacted, they chatter
about an inGnity of nothing, weary
ing the soul Of the business man
WHO is too polite or weak-minded
to get rid of them. II Il woman
goes to a pOst-ollice window to ask
more than the most ordinary queS-
ton, or even to do nothing more
than buy a stamp, she either eX-
poets that every body should make
way for her IN the queue Gf there
is one) or she ignores the existence
of other applicants, plants herself
on the wrong side Of the window
and lecures attention to the preJ-
udice of first.cOmcrs. The way IN
which women behave at the box
Office windows of theaters Is n0to-
rious. 1t is said that the official
who sells seats for matinees is not
kept in the same position long. II
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 be literally
pcstcred to death if they did not
continually brace themselves to
answer thousands of silly and
supernuous questions with senten-
tious civility.
why do men who 90 to the
theater bate women Because the
LATTER wear hats which are an out.