The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-10
Opposing Views.

You deem 1 am so slight and weak a
thing" 1 exclaimed. DO you deem
women all alike-all on one common
level, fit for nothing but to be the TOYS
and drudges of men? Can you not rea-
lie that there are some among them
who despise the inanities of everyday
life-Wh0 care nothing for the routine
of society and whose hearts are filed
with cravings that no mere human
love or life can satisfy? Yes-even
weak women are capable of greatness,
and if we do sometimes dream of what
we cannot accomplish through lack of
the physical force necessary for large
achievements. that is not our fault,
but our misfortune. We did not ask
to be born with the over sensitiveness.
the fatal delicacy, the highly strung
nervousness of the feminine nature.
You are a learned and far-seeing man,
| have no doubt; but you do not read
me Alright if you judge me as a mere
woman who is perfectly contented with
the petty commOnplaces of ordinary
living. l tell you, though in your opin-
ion II is evident my sex is against me,
/ would rather die than sink into the
miserable nonentity of such lives as
are lived by the majority of women
so you are stung," was the quiet
as it should be. Resume your seat and
do not be angry. You are young and
inexperienced. You speak of the over
sensitiveness. the fatal delicacy, the
highly strung nervousness, Of the fem
mime nature. My dear lady, if you
had lived as long as [ have, you would
know that these are mere stock
phrases-for the most part meaning
less. AS a rule women are less SEN
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your sex who are nothing but Jumps Of
lymph and fatty matter-women with
less instinct than the dumb beasts, and
with more brutality. There are others
who. adding the low cunning of the
monkey TO the vanity of the peacock
seek no other object than the further
ance of their own designs, which are
always petty, even when not absolutely
mean. There are obese women whose
existence is a doze between dinner and
tea. There are women with thin lips
and pointed noses. who only live to
squabble over domestic grievances and
NEEDLE in their neighbors' business
There are your murderous women
with large almond eyes, fair white
hands, and vOluptuouS red lips, who.
deprived of the dagger or the poison
bowl. will STAY reputation in few
lazily enunciated words, delivered with
d perfectly HlSn-DISO accent. 1ner6
are the misery women, who look after
cheese-parings and candle-ends and
lock up the soap. There are the spite
full women, whose very breath is
venom. There are the frivolous wo-
men. whose chitter-chatter and sense
less giggle are as empty as the rafting
of dry peas on a drum. In fact, the
delicacy of women is extremely over
rated; their coarseness is never done
full justice to. l have heard them re-
cite in public, selections of a kind that
no man would dare TO undertake, such
as Tennyson's ''RiZpah," for instance.
l know woman who utters every line
Of it, with all its questionable illusions,
boldly before any and everybody,
without SO much as an attempt at
blushing- I assure you men are far
more delicate than women far more
chivalrous-far larger in their views
and more generous in their senti-
ments. But I will not deny the ex-
istence of about four women in every
two hundred and fifty who may be,
and possibly are, examples of what
the female sex was originally in
tended to be-pure hearted, self-de3y-
ing, gentle and truthful-filled with
tenderness and inspiration. Heaven
knows my mother was all this and
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