Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-26
CRITIC CKITICYsKD,

We call the careful and the prsyerful at
tention of all our readers this morning to
the remarkable article from the pen of
Professor Ukits, most of which may be
found on this page. Professor Ukita is
Japanese who is.sojourniDg here with his
eyes wide open and his thinking apparatus
in good working order. It 10 evident that
hs4Iies to see without distortion and to
think without prejudice. and what he sees
and thinks is therefore of real value to
those among US who are at all interested In
the proper study of mankind.
We cannot stop to consider all that Pro-
fessor Ukiss says about Us, but we must
our women, for it is probably this part of
his discourse that will attract the most
attention and excite tho sharpsst criticism.
Some other Japanese observers have seen
them just ~ the learned Professor does,
though none, to our knowledge. has pub
licly said just what he does. We remem-
Der that our learned and acute little friend
DR.. Shiukiohi Shigeni, now healing the sick
in Toxic, was won't to speak of American
women much as the Professor writes of
them, but he didn't set down his judg-
ments in more or less impasishabls ink.
The Professor has, and he will therefore
have to stand the racket that is Invariably
raised when what the men and the women
Of America hold dearest is assailed.
The two most notable criticisms of the
American woman that the Professor makes
ia that her spirit is that Of man and that
she Is 80 destitute of noble ideals that she
might be ranked along with the women of
semi-oivilized countriea. We can't see how
the Professor came to the first of these
conclusions except by having an erroneous
idea of men - they exist in these parts.
He seems to have the notion that American
men are like American women, which is
where he is in error. More careful study
will show him that American women are
not engaged in initiating American men.
They haven't the spirit of the men. They
have . spirit which Is, compared with that
of the men, as far superior to 1t a. in the
Professors mind the Japanese women are
superior to their sisters Of this country.
And he could easily learn that American
men have long been aware of their infs,i l.
ority to American women and that they
only wish that they had the same kind of
spirit that the women have. II the Pro-
fessor could fairly say that American men
| have the spirit of American women he
would pay the men . compliment worth
having. As 1t is, the men of this country
| will know that they are not justified In
accepting the compliment he unwittingly
pays them when he Gays the spirit of the
women of this country is like that of the
men.
As to the Professors other notion that
American women lack in noble ideals We
can't understand where he got that. Ger
tainly not In New Haven, where We have
. Saturday Morning club, an Indian Rights
fever, q woman's Christian Temperance
Union, . Young Woman's Christian asso.
citation, Kings Daughters, Daughters of the
Revolution, Colonial Danes, all kinds oi
ladies' relief societiss, and more boards o,
lady managers than there are things tc
l uBu8tOs Auo kA0 bokA0 S0huAhAon VI tukuku
exists. in all parts of the country Will
which We are acquainted. Noble ideals
The women of this country do not lack IL
them, but they are SO full of then
that they sometimes become extravs
CANT in their expression, as whel
they can't be content without On
gsgiug themselves to support mil
sionary in heather japan or even g
. there and marry one. And a. for thel
8 ideal of love, which he SO berates and b
Titles, If he knew what q sacrifice Q
American woman makes when she marie
an American man he wouldn't accuse b,
{ of being ienoble, any more than he woul
fall to understand the lofty spirit that an
mated that New York woman who gave &
elaborate party the other day In honor
her loved and cherished pug dog.
We ask Professor Ukita to rub his spe
taoles and take another look at the Amel
can woman. If he will he will fnd a
3 has spirit that he hasn't perceived, .,
that she has more noble ideals than d
has time or strength to properly pursue.