Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-28
THE COMING M A N
Pauline Pry Considers What Elm oondi
tion Will Be
When the Coming Woman Appears.
Some Sympathy Expressea fss
the Poor Male Creature.
Written Exclusively for The Evening ssas.

Written Exclusively for The Evening star.
With our. minds stlil more or less upsse
by the efforts OF the woman suffragists whs
have been In our midst making mo
tons and speeches and passing resofutiona.
cajoling the Constitution and bullying Con-
gress to hasten the advent OF the coming
woman. don't YOU think now it Is truly
worthy just and profitable unto salvation
to pause minute and think about The
coming man?
crowned the various movements afoot -
put divided skirts on Uncle Sam ana can
MIN "Auntfe." will not man have become Q
species extinct In the process of evolutions
Or do you fancy he may linger q perpisx-
Ing problem in feminized politics? win the
land to be set aside for his reservation ana
the figure Of the government appropriation
TO be made for his support form bone
OF contention among our coming lady Con-
gressmen, and shall we have the freQuoul
spectacle OF small delegations OF men. wraD.
ped In gloom and government blanksta,
moving upon the White House TO INVOKE
the Great Mothers protection against the
lady agents daily game of fim-nam7 WIN
the press reports Of these days sivs -
something like this:
The lady Senator from Utah, Mrs. SMITH
then spoke as follows:
Madam President: As have SAT here
listening TO the cheese-paring eloquence q
the lady Senator from Texas In her effoss
to have cut I'm two the town lot that 10 81
aside in her state for the residence Of su
men found south Of the 40th parallel of lstS-
tude. as have caught the sinister subtistv
OF the arguments she has advanced to show
that men, being creatures having then
greatest extent vertically. can be stalled q
closer quarters than could the same nunbsp
or cattle-I say. Madam President, a. hu
words have fallen upon my ears and he
inhumane purpose penetrated my heart I
have blushed. woman though / am, strons
ana stronger these many years TO shame
nave oiushed. Ny cheek is dyed with red
Here the lady Senator from Texas aross
to question OF personal privilege ana said:
Madam President. beg to assure my sem
sitive colleague from Utah that the red dive
on her cheek Is absolutely unmistalxable
from that we are accustomed to seeing
.here. daughter and loud applause on the
democratic side)
The lady Senator from Utah then res,,m-
cd her speech. and In conclusion offered q
resolution submitted by the Oklahoma So
ciety for the Prevention OF Cruelty TO Men,
Whlch provides q plan to remove all men
from the United States and colombo them
In the territory Of Hawaii"
Sympathy for Man.
/ suppose IL I had lived contemporaneous
with him I would have become attached 70
the mastodon or icthyosaurus-associati
counts for so much. At any rate, for this
or some other reason. I am attached 70
man, and my prophetic eye wesps when
ever, gazing into the future Il beholds him
dropped back TO the level OF the Indian or
peering deeper into his destiny, disserns an
that Is left OF him carefully cataiogued and
preserved under a glass case in the Smith
sonian Institute. Unmistakable glory al.
taches to the Adamless Eden toward which
we are tending, but dear, oh, dear don't
you think II will be frightfully lonesomeS
VINO VIII make love TO u.s. and when ~
get out Of Job who will marry usf WA
Without by that time we shall need ne
fathers. Now and then. as she n vantsd
full.grown woman will spring into exis.
proclamation. But babies-.per1sh IT,
thought! Already. with the COMING woman
no nearer than she is, We are not eecugD
with our babies We have never q romp
with the tots. undisturbed by the fear thai
We may be caught In the act by q super5oS
woman.
know a mana foreigner he ID. you usx
De sure; no American with two states gooh
woman's suffrage would have the couraeS
to make the observation, n he Jaw itLthfs
foreigner know says a so-cailed supersoe
woman, with hei extraordinary mental At
salnments. always reminds him Of the
Suasourg geese whose livers have b>an
tattened-'very good livers ana very siok
geese OF truth. there does seem 10 -
something distressingly destructive OF ouS
orlginal identity In the effect modern I'm.
pI0Nements nave upon US. have tried tn
higher aims OF woman on myself ana 1
speak with the authority OF the dor "A
science To succeed In these higher Sfrns
you must be anything but what you really
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least think you are something else and
above all things don't marry a man Tor
love. AZ You must get married and must
velopment OF humanity
hearu an eloquent woman suffraefst ssy
the other night that we were an h,rrnac
beings before We were women. May %
s,nr,s ~ pa. /, wasn't Before ! was .
tnat atter ne died he was reincarnatei the
next tning TO an angel. but / never v,ss
anything so abstract. impersonal ana COL
Sriess as human being and I can't say
nave any particular interest In humanity.
Rather my interest is all particular. Did
you ever know a baby who had A human
being for a mother? Did you ever Know a
mother who had a process OF evolution for
papy! lived next door 20 both once.
She Became an Editor.
The mother. after she was a human b.
ing. was an editor. She lived IN hsr
profession. she said. AS a matter OF tact
she lived In house like anybody else ana
did newspaper work because II satisfied Der
vanity and permitted her badly disciplined
nature to riot In Bohemia She had rot
originally intended to marry. She explain.
ed the incident. however. saying ft was Q
new experience. and all the progressive
minds Of her acquaintance agreed that -.
perfence is necessary to the advancement
OF humanity. So they pardoned this nrst
onense. But the baby was a circumstance
not as easily extenuated. However, she
used IL 50 scientifically In Conversation
said she looked upon herself merely as the
vehicle OF Its creation, that she had no
as a means of the development OF human
nature. Moreover. she went right on with
her career, and though serious doubts pre-
vailed for a time. Il soon came 70 be ren-
orally admitted that she had a future, de-
spite the fact Of the baby.
She would go 20 her Office every day IKE D
man. and all the while the baby's eyss
grew more solemn and more searching. He
wasn't sad exactly: he was worse-hs was
serious. In his little pale face WAS all the
unfathomable seriousness Of q seer, a. n
the conflict between the unreaiity OF iife
and stern necessity OF being. To begin with.
he was doubtless no more OF the eombina.
ton seer and soft nothing that any baby
Is at the conjunction OF the infinite and
finite which We call birth. But the greedy
egotism OF a mothers love. that operates 20
transform a great mystery into her own
particularly familiar bit OF flesh and blood.
did not work In this one. 80 Il was he
grew constantly less and less the baby ana
more and more of the mystery.
As the weather became warm he was