Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-21
Do Mon Prefer Them to Bright
 Women
Do Women Do Well to Affect Simplicity A Glover Mans Mistake in His Ideal. Young >impletons Charming
 to Nsasterful Men.
CopyRIGHT 1890.


 out a very sweet and charming woman. with iust enough want of judgement and sense to make her most delIciously dependent upon the man to whom she belongs. and who seems to value her more especially because she is such | simpleton that he by comparison ap- | peares quite a monument of sagacity. | Tho story reminds one a little of the | fable of the lion who was found gazing | at group wherein man was seen | trampling upon an abject and con Qucrcd lion.
 Tho sculptor asked His Majesty what he thought of it. II think" replied the lion. that 1t was 9 man who mod eled it" And then it turned and be- gan walking slowly toward the sculp- tor. who also turned and ran, not at all slowly. to place of security
 However, it is to be supposed that Mir. Charles Rcade liked this style of 1 woman, and the question in my mind is, Do other men like her!
 | To begin with. one does not often meet just that sort of simpleton. To be lacking in brains does not always | imply abounding in heart. l have | known plenty of women who wore very l foolish, very incompetent for any of 1 the duties of life, even self-preserva- | tion. and who at the Same time were selfish, cold and insincerc. l have also | known some women who from sweet simpletons of sixteen deteriorated, when tho troubles of life or the neglect | of men tried their tempers, into very wasplsh and disagreeble- tempered wo- mon, but without gaining any common sense pr making any use of their dearly bought experience.
 | An old Latin proverb says that the sweetest things, in their decay, become | the most offensive. and have always noticed it's truth in the matter ot wo- | mems tempcrs an insipid, sugar-and- | milk young girl often becomes the | most impossible kind of woman, and l is capable of imparting more misery | into mans life than clever woman | could possibly do, for tho latter, when | her temper runs away with her, goes to l such extremes, and so eXhausts herself | in in furious invectives, that the victim fecls that it cannot last, and is hardly | real. and is rather stunned and an moved than cooly indignant.
 | The simple ton, on the contrary, has not tho moral forco to rise into this volcanic condition, or to produce this | impression of brief chaos to end in a newly smiling heaven. She whinoS and she cries. and she makes halfaccu- sations and won't stick to them. and above all she nags oh, how fearfully she nags, and how untiringly.
 | Mrs. Caudle was a simplcton of this description, and the Caudle Lectures are a perfect Nado- -mecum in the science of nagging.
 suppose there is nothing quite so | lj i,,,r tl,p inn tnr 1s a loAg-continued course of nagging, and husband who gets plenty of it generally takes to drink, to other wo- men, or to Canada. He cannot stand it and live.
 The difference between the two tenn rers is that of cyclone, or dreary pelting sleet rain, to which one is OK posed all night, without shelter or mo- | ton.
 The cyclone Is pretty dangerous while it lasts, but the wise man throw S himself flat on the ground or crouches in the lee of a big rock, holds on tight and waits. The other man battles on until strength and hopo are gone, and he throws himself down and don't care.
 But all this is of simplotons whose life has soured. and do not at all deny that there are plenty of others who re- main sweet and docile, yes, ''child-l ike and bland" 10 the end of the chapter. People always say of her. ''What a sweet woman.' and if anybody adds,
 But what mpleton"' she is looked upon as uncharitable.
 Perhaps somebody will say that am uncharitable in the foregoing remarks. but indeed do not mean to be.
 l adore women as a class. and always claim my position as "a woman's wo man," and l admire even tho simple tons in some ways. l am only consid. ering them as mans favorite type of womanhood. and my conclusion is thai here, as in many other particulars ma, doesn't know what he is talking about whom he talks as Charles Reado does in the book suggesting this paper.
 The kind of Simpleton many men ad miro and love IS really only a sweet and simple woman, and not at all fool. Plenty of those women there are, with child-like faith in all sorts of good things, their hus bands included; rather narrow in thor sympathieS because not knowing much of the world outside their homes, but possessing infinite patience, self-denial, resource and good sense within their own domain.
 They don't pretend to much author. ity over thoir children, but they love them and toll for them, and nurse them in illness, and so soon as the boys can mount bicycle, submit to their decis. ions, and mover think of resenting, be ing told that women don't understand these things" But the boys love them dearly, and in after life say and believe that they had the best of mothers while their sisters, if not simpleton. themselves, patroniZe their little mammas," laugh at her simple sugges tions, and admit her to as much of theil confidence as they think safe and wise
 Probably both sons and daughter, feel the loss all their lives of what an other sort of mother would have dont