The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-13

Mad" Because They Can't Understand.
And So Say Bitter Things-Physical
misunderstanding Women.
Copyright by American Press Association
Do men like the best women best? No,
they don't, and it is one of the most re-
1narkable things in the study OF the
crudar sex to see how they pride them
selves upon their discrimination with
regard to women, and how very, very,
Uery little they know about them.
And this no doubt Is one ground for
the cynical, jaundiced, 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 cynlcs,
sznd they found they didn't, and instead
a blaming their own stupidity they
turned and rent the elusive objects of
their mistaken theories.
1t is very annoying, l grant you, for
man to build up a fine ideal temple
wherein to enshrine his own image and
watch the goddess of that temple sitting
at 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 ignominicusly stranded in
the ruinsi
[ suppose one 1COaLld be tempted to re-
vile the goddess who had mortified US
so sorely.
No, they don't understand women at
all, these poor dear msn, 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 shat they have
laid down that there is nothing in
heaven or earth beyond or above their
comprehension, and that they are, as
Alexander Selkirk remarks of himself,
Lord of the fish and the brute" that,
although woman is neither fish nor
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
lOE IBI, Duj Ills SlOI OIl III all 6CCCuIIIC
orbit of her own and is away out of
reach ''Such conduct as these" natu-
rally annoys ''the monarch of all he sur
veys," and as it Is inHpoSsibl for him to
do anything about it he vents his wrath
in saying great deal, sometimes in the
style Of the fox who thought the grapes
were sour because he couldn't reach
them, and again, Ii tbs light and iippant
fashion Of a majestic intellect stopping
TO TRIES. he ficks the woman question
aside as one quite unworthy Of his con-
sideTatiOn, declaring that the habits and
manlegs OF the ephe7Dera who dance for
an hour above a sunny summer pool ars
more deserving Of a mans attention
than TIE yet lighter ephenyeron, woman.
One consequence of this process Is that
a tradition mas grown up in the mascu-
line mind and Is transmitted from IA
Their to sonas carefully as fhe unwritten
laws Of the Incas 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 tho art Of hOodwinking
men: that they are at once the weakest
and most formidable form Of creation,
and although fm unhappy instinct of
mans nature. bIIS no-men don't have
instincts-althoagh the profound pro-
cesses of reason show that the world
would not long coIIianue without wom-
an. and therefore 1t is necessary that
man sho1lld ceIldone her offenses and
seek her society, he should do so with
the same fear and trembling that he
handles dynamite ST InsTDduces electric
wires into his wsreAeJsa.
They all are powerful agents and the
Lord OF Creation does not intend TO con-
fess any object in his dosEsinion to be too
many fer him. So, although quite
aware thai dynamite 1nay blow him and
his to the farthest limit of EEntro, and cleo
tricity viii most likely set his buildings
on fire, and woman will-oh, dear me,
what words can describe the indescrib-
able dis that woman can work in his
life stiIl he does not, and does not in
tend to. dewitlloJ,t any one of the three
potencies and feels quite sure that
though other men have been hOiSted
with their Own dynamite, cUn1agrated
by their own electCicS and destroyed
with naTnoless horrors by the woman
whom they had either made or wished
10 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
oDs kind of woman?
But hero the Wanted wisdom of the
Lord of Creation seems to utterly fail
him, and IN choosing n wife he shows no
more discrimination than the child who
dives into grab bag at a fair. If there
is any method at all in the matter it
seems to operate the wrong way, for it is
very, very seldom that a man fixes his
affections upon the best woman of his
acCs.sS1tance, or even upon the best wo-
me2 for ham,
What are the grounds of his choice.
then? What kind of women do men like
better than the best?
Wen, Of course, youth and beauty are
always sure cards, and 1 should be sorry
indeed to lose the pleasure l derive from
contemplating them myself; but we all
know that there are beauties and beau
ties, and while some pretty faces are as
attractive and refreshing as handful Of
dewy flowers others are rs monotonous
as g photographed smile, and others