The daily critic., 1890-10-07

1t is not the womanly woman nor the
brainy woman, nor in the main the good
women who have influence ia political
office. tits the shrewd the hediplomatic,
the Frasping and the unprincipled who
go to the front We have enough Of
that order Of mind and morale among
men already To increase the demorali-
zstion of party politics by adding to othis
element would be ike broadening the
channel Of poisoned stream OF nourish,
ing q hydrophobic cur
Women are either the noblcst crea-
tion Of God or the meanest a good
woman Is little less than an angel 8 bad
woman is considerably more than a
devil. And by bad women I do not
mean women who drink, or steal or
frequent brothels The chief weapon
Of bad woman is her tongue. with
lie she can do more deadly work than
the fellow In the Bible did With the
iawhone Of an ass. Tntuh is the
fundamental strata Of all evil In a bad
woman nature, and with It she is more
10 be dreaded than many men with re-
volvers There is absolutely no pro.
lection from a lie The courts cannot
protect from its venom, and to Kill de-
famer and n falsifier is not yet adiudged
as legalized murder
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The same writer moralizes on the
misfortunos Of the late Robert Ray
Hamilton as follows The ending Of
Robert Ray Hamilton's life by drown
Ing closes the story Of career as sad
and romantic as could be found In any
fiction the wide world over. OF fam
ily distinguished more for lineage than
for wealth, although Of princely means,
this man owed the wreck Of his man
hood and the blight OF an honored
name to the wiles Of a beautiful adven.
turess. The worst calamity that can
befall either man or woman Is to fall
victim 10 a spurious love. Better totter
into the Jaws Of death at once than seek
to live a life not worth living after the
vampire breath of an unworthy attach
ment has fastened upon your honor. A
woman who viii snare a man for greed
is his moral and physical death incar-
mated. The part she plays In this world
Is the part Of the summer fly that sets
the germ Of hopeless decay IN the fruit
while still in blossom.
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The New York Ledgcr would invoke
the wrath OF the more excellent sex on
the head Of an ungallant, cold-blooded
anatomist, who thus libels the caput Of
woman:
The type OF the female skull approaches,
IN many respects, that of the infant and In
a still greater degree that OF the lower races;
and with this Is connected the remarkable
circumstance that the difference between
the sexes as regards the cranial cavity In
Creases with the development Of the race,
SO that the male European eVcels much
more the female than the negro the negress.
How does this audacious auatomist
account for the fact that nature has
given woman an influence over man
more powerful, more perpetual than
mans over woman? From birth to
death man takes help and healing from
woman's hand under all the most
touching circumstances Of life; she
suCcors him in infancy soothes him In
manhood, supports him In sickness aud
In age. Such influence as this, begin
ming at the spring Of life. and acting
In all It's most trying moments, must
doteriorate or improve mans character,
must dimish OF Increase his happiness.
according 20 the moral and intellectual
gradations of woman. IL Is sheer non
sense, then, TO talk about "the inferior.
ity Of woman's brain. Her brain Is
simply different from mans, not In
fcrlor.