The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-03
CARRIE CA RELESS.
MAN AS SEEN THROUGH A WO-
MANS ErEqLASs.

10 is Not Altogether Conplim entary to
the "Sterner Sex"-How Men Change
Their Opinion After MsrrisGe-Wo O..
ness Metters--A Man Looks Without
Seeing, a Woman Fees Without
Looking. t,
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NEW YORK, July 2-"Woman Through
Mans Eyeglass, " is the title of volume
which has recently been published simulta-
neously in England and in this country. Its
author, a Mr.. Malcolm Salaman, writes
agreeably enough but in somewhat too
patronizing manner Of our sex, and it is
easy to perceive from his remarks that, not
outstanding his commonplace and hack
neyed compliments, women, when seen
through his masculine eyeglass, appear
creatures of an altogether inferior order of
intellect and physique, whose range of Wis
ion is exceedingly limited, and who posses
neither the logic nor the consequence Of the
sterner sex.
1t is easy for US women at any rate, TO
gather from this tae conviction that
the author Of Women sThrough
Mans Eyeglass" is an unmarried man, and
the confession contained in the preface of
the volume to the effect that "bachelorhood
has become chrome" with BIN is, under the
circumstances, altogether superfluous. No
man blessed with helpmate in the form of
a wife would, for instance, ever dream of
asserting that the range Of feminine
vision Is limited" He may fondly have
imagined that such was the case while still
untamed. But as soon as the honeymoon is
over he begins TO find his mistake, and be-
I'LL ~ hn
tration of his wife's gaze. of the wide
and extensive range Of her vision and,
above all. Of the indubitable fact that
neither the mental nor physical eye OF man
can compete with the sex he SO often affects
to regard with Multiplying condescension.
The most artless OF bread-and- butter misses
the most naive and ingenious OF school
girls sees things about the youth who is
paying attention to her in a patronizing
sort of way, the revelation of which would
humiliate and mortify him unspeakably
But when the youth blossoms into the mar
ried man, he is apt to lose that sublime be-
lief that he is fascinating. BE gets told as
much, not. perhaps, at first, but when the
fresh gliding OF the union begins 20 wear of
bit-and then be at once appreciates the
range of feminine vision.
Man seen through woman's eyeglass-or
better still, with the naked eye, for we are
not SO short-sighted as they. and do not
require tne assistance or hrtl1cldl lens-ls
very different creature from the Phoenix
which he Is apt to imagine himself TO be-
until married. Far from being our superior,
be is distinctly the reverse. That our in
tellect is OF higher order than his own Is
conclusiyely shown by the fact that be in
variably appeals to US for advice and coun-
sci when his own lack of judgment has in
| volved him in almost inextricable difficult
| ties. We possess far greater degree of
| intuition, as well as a knacK Of getting at the
root Of thing than men. Many business
man famous on change or on the ''street"
for shrewdness and capacity, many a states
man or politician. and many diplomat has
| puzzled and vexed himself over matter
which his wife has at once solved simply by
natural genius. The solution of certain
| problems. the cutting Of certain knots and
the answering of,certain questions seem to
be especially the faculty Of our sex. In the
answering Of awkward letters. In exsrioation
from predicameDts, ia deciding between
delicate courses Of conduct, aud, above all,
in the smoothing Of difficult ground, our
aid is invaluable, and is being constantly
invoked by the meu, who are. however, suf-
| dciently graoeleas and uugrotetul 10 ems