Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-31


From the London spec;a oEl
Lady Constance Lytton lays down twO
propositions which will be received, we
think, by her own sex with something of
surprise. She says women have no code
of honor, and therefore when they are not
dishonorable are more deserving of honor,
because no external pressure conpsls
them, bat only their own goodness. EK.
oept on one rather restricted point, we
may venture to doub. whether either pre-
position is well founded.
We fancy women are at least as honor
able - men, and that they are kept hon
orab.e by a code NJ least a. severe as ths,
which presses upon the other seI. This
lie certainly true, and lie, We fancy, admit
ted by Lady Conssance Lytt9n to be true,
% regards she we!ghtter matters of the
Law. Upon their own especial point of
honor, women are admitted TO be better
than men, and they are kept so, not only
by the teaching of aga and of religion,
bat by Q code supported by both se1es
which presses upon them In many cases
with even frightful severity. They are
never forgiven by their own sex for q
breach of their cardinal law, and the sp-
parent forgiveness In occasional cases of
the other is deeply favored with con
tempt III they yield, again, 10 q tempta-
tion which should he stronger with them
than with men, the temptation to relieve
nervous sutfsrins by dnak. they are de-
nounced by bitterness hardly expended
on any vice, and almost insIplscable, ex-
ospt upon the theory that men always as-
sociste drink In women With unchastity-
o belief which seems 10 have descended
through all ths sges. Ths code In this
case has been 40 rigid 80 iron, and excep,
In the lowest classes of the northern rsces
10 has done fits work 90 perfectly that over.
indulgence in drinking may be skId
throughout the world, outside Polynesia,
to be . purely masculine vice
As regards all forms of pecunisry temp
tAtion, except one, the writer would Ger.
tAinly ssy that women are crafty more
honorable than men, II may be only an
individual experiences. bu. he has found
than much more reluctant to borrow: and
when they have borrowed, much more
rigid. though not, II is true, more punctu
| al, In repaying. The trusteeship of two
thousand years has, In fact, drilled then
into an appreciation of the duty of pay
Ing, which the opposite sex can hardly b.
/ said to possess, ths abs siutely upright
man usually displaying his uprishtness BY
an abstinence even from requests for loans
The woman who is lax In peouniary af
fairs 10 almost invariably without aoy
principle at all. In this case, too, the
code pressse sharply, the woman who Dor
rows and pays not again being held By bel
sisters to be an offender with whom it Il
safest to have as little intercourse as pos
sible. The single exception IL gaming
Il be -rItar f&unaia srar ry1x aa~
but he cannot resist tbs universal testimo
ny that where she exists st all, the woman
who games lie less likely to pay up than tn,
man; and thss the opinion of her own sex
though IL Won d not condone he- of =ucs
would be far less hard than the iuagmsn
Of men on men for the same delinquency
The woman, In fsct, cannot be reasone,
out of conviction that . game is Q gam
and nothing else. and that non payment