The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
WOMAN's SIXTH SENSE.
Her Instructive Endowment Enabling
Her to Replace Man i'm business.

Boston Transcript.
The rapidity with which woman is push-
ing TO the front in the various lines OF seri-
Gus endeavOr IS, TO the average masculine
mind, marvellous and incomprehensible.
That she should attain anything more than
a moderate success in business pursuits is
altogether Incompatible with our concep-
ton of the female capacity. These have
been wont TO look upon women as a physi-
cal and intellectual weakling a being in-
capable of more than semi-interest in the
Sterner questions Of life, and as one WHO,
even in the milder and seemingly more APP
propriate spheres OF art, IS usually salts
fled with the mereSt dilettantesm We have
been told time and again. and told by those
who ought to know, that the is practl-
cally devoid of the reasoning faculty, and
consequently is adapted only TO those
gentler offices which make demand not 80
much upon the intellect as upon the natural
instincts
How comes it. then that woman. lacking
this great essential threatens TO push
man to the wall in almost all the occupa-
tions to deprive him OF what he has al
ways considered his prerogatiyes. and 10
laugh in derision at his boosted superiority?
Can it be that ratiocination is not such
very necessary factor in business success
after all. or is ii that woman possesses
doubtedIy the latter. For our slowgoing
reason she has her quickg0ing intuition, a
faculty almost exclusively her own ana I'm
is but as the creeping messenger boy to TIE
Beinr frequently brought into contact
curing quick and decisive action, / am
often absolutely astounded at the wonder
ful operations Of this feminine endowment.
Where her masculine co-workers with
united and perspiring brows proceed Ia
boriously to measure pros and cons, have
seen her decide instantly and calmly the
proper course TO pursue, and rarely, as far
as my observations have gone, have her
intuitions been at fault. She seems 10
Strike each point with native force Of
mind,
While puzzled logic blunders far behind"
The most obvious characteristics OF the
feminine intellect, says Roscoe, are delicacy
of perceptive power and rapidly of move
thousand things which escape a man,
ana thai she is quicker sighted even phys
ically. Moreover, that women diner from
men in having far more varied. subtle and
numerous inlets 10 knowledge. upon which
they rely, without trying TO remember and
reason from previous experience, as a man
does. The female intellect walks directly
and unconsciously by more delicate In
intuition to an end TO which mems minds
grope carefully apd plOddingly along" And
Hazlitt affirms that women have more Of
what is called good sense than men-be.ng
less implicated in theories and judging OF
objects more from their immediate and in
voluntary impression on the mind, and,
therefore, he contends, judging more truly
and naturally. They cannot reason wrong
for they do not reason at all
A French proverb bids Us take the first
advice OF woman and not the second.
This proverb Archbishop Trent deemed one
of great wisdom. said ne, the second
counsels, against which are warned.
would spring from her reaSOninCs, and in
this she is much inferior 10 man; but in
intuition '9n moral intuitions above all.
women surpass US Tar, having what Mon
the Ieonord'S sDring. which takes It's prey.
If II be to take at ALL at the first bound