Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-04

cheap enjoyment out of it, than in the pro-
 blem how 1t happens that women can rid
 themselves more easily Gas they certainly dol of the habit of dependence on others, and of
 the characteristics of timidity, want of straight-forwardness and the rest, which
 come of that habit of leaning, than they can
 rid themselves of "the power of self.sacri-
 flee, warm sympathies, compassion, patient endurance" which are the more active ele-
 ments of the same sort of mental inheri- tance.
 The writer in Macmillan puts it thus: The peculiarly womanly virtues-power of self
 patient endurance-represent an untold
 amount of suffering on the part of the
 weaker sex in past ages. It is to the worlds
 interest that the fruit of such suffering be
 not lost;" and he evidently thinks that it
 will be much harder for women to strip
 themselves of the unselfshness which he re- gards as the transmitted consequence of ages of suffering than it certainly has been to strip themselves of the timidity, the insin- cerities, the hesitation, narrowness, stupidi-
 ty, which also resulted from their habits of dependence on men who had needlessly i'm ficted great deal of that suffering. We
 hope and believe that he is quite right But
 why should it be so much easier to get rid of
 the evil qualities inherited from their moth-
 CTS and grandmothers and great-grandmoth-
 CTS than it is to get rid of the gooda Or is
 the assumption a mistakef
 It is much more true that it Is woman's natural unselGshness, which has made them suffer where men could not have suffered, or
 would not have suffered nearly so much,
 than that it is their inheritance of suffering
 which has made them unselfsh. There Is no tendency at all in suffering to make eith- CT men or women unselfsh, though it is un- selfshness which makes suffering enlarge k1,o,, @c !,
 init an unselfsh person, whether man or wo- man, to long course of suffering, and no doubt the result will be great elevation and spiritualization of character; but submit a selfish person, whether man or woman, to the same discipline, and unless there is enough conscience to overcome the se1ish- ness, the suffering will degrade and deaden instead of eleyating and purifying. We do not believe that men are more necessary to women than women are to men. They are mutually dependent, though in very differ
 ent ways, and it is not harder for women to
 become independent of men (except so far as
 their power of earning money is less), than
 it is for men to become independent of wo-
 men. The natural differences between men
 and women have certainly never been pro-
 duced by the more relative strength of the
 one and the relative weakness of the other.
 The mental differences have been at least as original as the relative differences in
 strength. And the greatest of these differ
 ences is, we should say, that women's nature inclines and enables them to enter ints the
 feelings of others, whether men or women,
 more easily than men, while mems nature in clines and enables them to take up active work for others more easily than women. It Is an unsexed women who cannot feel more truly for either man or woman than the av- craze man; it is an unsexed man who does not feel the impulse to act for those who need it, whether men or women, more impe- riously than the average woman. The for mer have the greater gift for active help. But it is certainly true that the gift of sym psthy will constantly lead the stronger wo- men into active help, and that the gift for active help will often lead the more sensitive men into very deep and discriminating power of sympathy.
 Nocturnal Carorsing.
 Nocturnal oareusing in Paris has received 8 potent impetus by recent edict of the prefect of police, who, according to all ao- cepted codes and oanons, ought to be the last person, says Paris correspondent, in the city to encourage dissipation of any sort. NJ. Legs has, in fact, allowed the landlords of cafes and brasseries in certain parts of Paris to keep their establishments going un- l til three o'clock in the morning. Formerly l many night resorts remained open until day light did appear; but Democratic moraiists succeeded in inducing those in power to is- sue a ukase whereby refreshment rendezvous were closed two hours after midnight, while some steady going restaurateurs and oafetiers lowered their lights and gave all their cus- toners notice to quit at the twelfth hour. Now NJ. Loze has offered increased facilities for dissipation to the noceurs of the small hours, and, according to some, the serious and rather raprehensible step has been taken in order to enable the detectives to prowl around the night haants of the boulevards on the lookout for the Prsdos and Pranzinis who most do congregate in such places. It is more probable, however, that the authori- ties, in extending the new privileges to pub
 licans, have the imminent New Years festiv ities, and possibly the approaching universal
 exhibition in view. Paris has the reputation among foreign nations of great cosmopoli-
 tan pleasure ground, or, as Metternich called
 it of old, the Cabaret or "tavern" of the na-
 tions. This attribute, however equivocal and objectionable it may be to right-minded
 people, will be one of the forces which are
 to attract foreigners next year, and it would
 therefore be unwise on the part even of stern
 Republicans, who profess to scorn the luxu-
 rious license of the empire, to turn the most
 brilliant and fascinating metropolis in Eu-
 rope into a city of strait laced Quakers or
 rigid Calvinists, especially at a time when
 "All the world and his wife" are about to
 flock to it's boulevards. Be this, however,
 as it may, the quiet people who live in the
 neighborhoods of the night houses-to the
 proprietors of which permission has been
 granted to remain open until thres o'clock a. m.-do not take these practical views of
 the matter. They complain, with justice,
 that the two o'clock in the morning regime
 was bad enough, what with the noise of cabs
 conveying noceurs and nocsuses home, and
 the occasionally riotous behavior of tipplers who had been imbibing beer or 'tburnt brandy" until they became unsteady in their limbs and reckless in their conversation. It is hardly to be expected, however, that the objection of the ssquiet people" will have l much weight with the authorities, who at the utmost will only take care that the ca | rousers go home as orderly as possible, and | refrain from making night hideous on the ! hnnlavards