The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-21
MEN AND WOMEN.
WHAT the sterner Sex Finds to Attract
Them In tho Other.

what the Steiner Sex Finds to Attract
Them In tho Othsr.
Why is l. that so many clever women
consider II a siRn of superiority TO say that
they don't like women? says tho New York
Sun. Ths kind of . woman q man likes
bess Is tho very womanly woman, who
oiings to tho old traditions and keeps the
sweet ideals. md likes to get off in a COR
nsr and gossip with q lot OF other women
about tho new babies. and tho new gowns,
ths now books that women love boat and
the men laugh at. the weddings. and teas
una lnnohes that men are not interested
IN. And why do women think
tnas they increase their charm
don't like women2 There are plenty Of
women who ars not emnncipnted enough to
want TO dispense with the society and hom-
age OF men. who yet breathe 4 little sigh of
reliei whom the men they like best are off
Tor the day and they can sitdown with con
genial women friends and talk things all
oyer that they would never dteam of troub-
I'nR q man with. No woman is ashamed to
aunt Tint when n man IL chivalrous and
courteous he interests and fascinates her.
and none desires to limp, ove'' him of the
race OF the earth. but there are times whom
she readily can spare him.
wen nate details and women delight In
snem. Mon want to be always talking
aoous themselves to women. or else fiatter-
Ing the women with idle compliments. Men
hate scenes and sentimental Mysteries;
women revel In them. Men do not like sad
women; women love q woman for her very
row with "Well. cheer up. little woman; IL
doesn't pay to be aad." Women are ~ m
pathetic listeners and tender comfortsrs.
Men rarely like to talk Of the enrnest
things of women, and il between a man
and woman there springs up the conf
dsnce and sympathy in interest and pur-
other, nine times out of ten one or the
other gets in love and spoils IL all.
Men are terribly skeptioal and painfully
logical. 1t is very tireSomo TO have one's
forty black oats in the cherry tree quizzsd
and eross-questioned down to white
not so superior and grand and indepen-
dent as they advertise. It ia a relief to
take ont ones h~airpins and take of the
mask. and be just as weak and womenish
and foolish as she likes for II little while.
They have been spelling woman with such
have no need Of the little quiet chats over
the teacups. whore they can air honest
feminine views of various things. men
among the rest, without fear or favor;
where they can shed a few tears if they
like over the clay feet of their particular
idol without being distracted by fears lest
their noses got red.
There il something radically wrong with
q women who doesn't l ke women, who isn't
loyal enough to try to conceal the weak
nesses and foibles of her kind. even as men
defend and support one another; who
doesn't know times and seasons when she
finds the companionship of her own sisters
better than the fattery of men. The wo-
man who is too clever to care for women
ought to be clever enough to keep it to
herself, for men are less attracted by the
smart woman's smartness than by the gen.
tie woman's winsomeness. A woman 80
superior to her kind would not make an
ideal companion for the average man, who
knows he is a little lower than angela, but
enjoys best the womsn who not quite clever
enough to find II out, or else 10 clever
enough never to let him know II.