, 1890-07-12

14o ." shy hAAAtE
misunderstanding Women
Copyright by American Press Associationl
Do men like the best women best? No,
they don't, and 1t is one Of the most re-
markable things in the study Of the
cruder sex to see how they pride them
selves upon their discrimination with
regard to women, and how very, very,
very little they know about them.
And this no doubt is one ground for
the cynical, jsundioed, bitter SCOTS and
taunts flying about the world with re-
gard to women, and all emanating from
men. They thought they knew some
thing about women, these poor cynicJ,
and they found they didn't. and instead
Of blaming their own stupidity they
turned and rent the elusive objects of
their mistaken theories.
It Is very annoying, / grant you, for a
man to build up q fine ideal temple
wherein TO enshrine his own image and
watch the goddess Of that temple sitting
Mt the feet of her chosen lord, and then
to suddenly discover that the temple
was founded upon the Laughing
sands" and in some unusual quake the
whole affair tumbles down, and his
image is left ignominiously stranded In
tho ruinsi
Isuppose one pouLd be tempted to re-
vile the goddess who had mortified Us
so sorely.
No, they don't understand women at
all, these poor ear men, and nothing
vexes them more than to have this con-
seriousness brought home to them; they
are so accustomed to feeling that the
world runs on the lines that they have
laid down that there Is nothing in
heaven or earth beyond or above their
comprehension, and hat they are, as
Alexander Selkrk remarks OF himself,
Lord of the fish and the brute" that,
although woman is neither a fish nor a
brute, they consider her as surely the
vassal Of man as either of these.
And then, when all this has been COM
fortably arranged and Milford Man has
settled himself pleasantly upon his
throne, 10 and behold the chief vassal
isn't at all in the place he had arranged
for her, but has shot off in an eccentric
orbit of her own and is away put OF
reach. Such conduct as these natu-
rally annoys ''the monarch OF all he sur
veys," and as 1t Is impossible for him to
do anything about 1t he vents his wrath
In saying a great deal, sometimes in the
style of the fox who thought the grapes
we're sour because he couldn't reach
them, and again. in the light and hippant
fashion OF a majestic intellect STOPPING
to trifes, he flicks the woman question
aside as n quite unworthy Of his con
sideration. declaring that the habits and
manners Of the ephemera who dance for
an hour above a sunny summer pool are
more deserving of a mans attention
than the yet lighter e~phemeron, woman.
One consequence of this process Is that
a tradition has grown up in the mascu-
line mind and Is transmitted from ia
Their to son as carefully ss the unwritten
laws Of the lncas to the effect that
women are deceitful exceedingly, are fair
to the eye but deadly poison to the taste,
are trivial and shallow OF mind, and yet
past masters in the art OF hoodwinking
men; that they are at once the weakest
and most formidable form OF creation,
and although an unhappy instinct Of
mans nature, but no-men don't have
Observation-Disclosures the profound pro
cesses of reason show that the world
would not long continue without wom-
an. and therefore 1t is necessary that
man should condone her offenses and
seek her society, he should do 30 with
the same fear and trembling that he
handles dynamite or introduces electric
wires Into his warehouse.
They all are powerful agents and the
Lord of Creation does not intend to con
Tess any object In his dominion to be too
many for him. SO, although quite
aware that dynamite may blow him and
his to hi farthesthmit OF limbo, and cleo
tricity Will most likely set his buildings
on ire, and woman w1u-oh, ear me,
what words can describe the indescrib-
able Ills that woman a work in his
hfel still he does not, and does not in
tend to, do without any one OF the three
potencies and feels quite sure that
though other men have been hoisted
with their WI dynamite, conf1agrated
by their own electrics and destroyed
with nameless horrors by h woman
whom they had either made or wished
to make their own, they should escape.
But just as every man tries to secure the
safest form OF dynamite and the best
protected electric wires would it not be
supposed that he would be very careful
to secure the very best and least danger
Gus d of womanf
But here the haunted wisdom of the
Lord of Creation seems to utterly fail
him, and in choosing a wife he shows nc
more discrimination han the child who
is n method at al In the matter Il