The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-10
PAST AND PRESENT.
Men Nowadays Seek the CompanionshiI
of Brainy Women.

Men Nowadays Seek the Companionship
of Brainy Women.
Editor JVomdn's Column. Morning Cal:
The fair, fragile female of fifty years ago
is 10 longer quoted above pari The silly,
senseless doll woman is considerably below
the market value! No one nowadays ad-
mires the woman who faints at the sight of
a spider or goes into spasmS over an inno-
cent mouse. Men are not hanging about
the skirts of women of that stamp. The
girl who has to be helped over log six
inches high is given the decided go-by for
the girl who can walk her five miles day,
who can swing a dumb-bell with ease. and
who knows all about Delsarte. The senii-
mental miss who gloated. by the midnight
oil, over Mrs. E. d. L. n. S0uthworth, and
whose caliber did not reach beyond that,
has no show beside the girl who c0nverses
Understandings upon the politics OF the
day; who reads the Atlantic, the Forum,
the North American Review. In these STIR
ring times that boasts OF Edisons and George
EliOts, men are looking for companions, not
ornaments, and the girl who understands
this TACT, if she has hump on her back
and cast in her eye, will outdistance
the vacant, vacuou5 beauty The stern
er sex want something more than
misses who drum "Secret Love" on the
piano and chatter frivolous nothings. Men
who are worth having do not want " Pink
and White Tyranny coy manners and
fetching frOcks. The scent for pretty
wives is over, and the lookout for
bright young women is in full blast The
woman who captures and holds the mascu-
line mind of to-day is the help-meet, the
wife, the mother, in the fullest sense OF the
word. Men are beginning to take pride in
the mentality Of their women, and their
light is 10 longer condemned to be hid I'M
der a bushel, but can slime forth in all the
glory of enlightened aud intellectual woman
hood. Once men did not seek for wives the
blue stockings, the brainy women. They
labored under the impression that such
women d id not make good housewives. but
they opened their blind eyes to the fact that
brains are at u premium everywhere. III
! she have brains in letters she will have the
more in the kitchen. He has found her III
tintely more comprehensive, ana she
charms him longer than the 1alr lily,
who hasn't an idea beyond the linen
in her closet the making of pancakes and
the last fashion. Men weary of the ever
lasting gabble of beef,teaks, bonnets and
babies, and ten 10 one, il this Is all his vile
can offer him, he finds his companions down.
town, and before many years have drifted
over his married head, the fasclnatons OF
some bright woman, outside the home circle,
begins to dawn ON him, and though he may
have too much honor TO yield TO them, he
finds an insidious wish creeping into his dis
satisfied heart that his own wlle'S mental
caliber were trtle beyond the aioresalI
beefSte ak, bonnet and baby. In these times
of woman suffrage, Of colleges open to the
sex, Of the professions that welcome women,s
ability, the fragile lily maiden is emphat-
ically in the rear. Women are no less
wo men because they can grasp the questions
tn at agtate the public mind with the facility
OF men. She is no less a mother because she
can talk inteIiigently and advise wisely the
manly son at her side. She need not
necessarily be masculine, because her head
| can cope with masculine subjects. Her
heart can remain distinctly wOmanly. She
need lose none Of her grace TT gentleness
because she knows two and two make four,
| or " no is the President OF the United States.
| She can be just as winning in manner, soft
| in speech and loving in disposition. it Is
! mistaken idea to suppose that she must lose
sight of the one when she takes up with the
other. A happy combination Of beauty and
brains, of passion and power, OF wisdom
and winsOnleneSS, is what women Should
struggle for and when our sex has acquired
THESE various virtues there VIII not 10
man from Labrador to South America, from
| the Atlantic 10 the Pacific that Will not
come under the refining and elevaung lniiu-
| ence Of intelligent and loving Womanhoud.
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