Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-27
AN ENEMY TO HER SEX.
That's What Mary H. Krout Says of tf
 Editor of The Saturday Review.

Editor of The Saturday Review.
 In the good time that is coming-of equal suffrage and of equal rights in all the avocations of life, the time that shall mark the abolition of discrimina- tion because of sex-The Saturday Re view will be remembered as one of the chief opponents of liberality and jus tice. Whenever or wherever it can utter a slur upon women, the Salsehood and the insult have gone forth. Unfortu- nately its chief mouth1iece is & woman woman so sour and hard that one wonders much at the fate and expert ence that could so have imbttered her judgment that she is incapable of being even fair upon the simp4est question where the interests of other women are involved The world of working women has ill her q pronounced enemy, for she believes that all women should remain at home and be protected, whether they have a home or not, and even where there is no one willing to assume the burden of the protection. The latest diatribe from The Saturday Review against the hated sex is charge that women are incapable of friendship or oven good will toward each other; that they will betray confidence without re- grot, break faith with impunity and quarrel over pirated bonnet or an alienated lover.
 1t goes for nothing that history can give many noble examples of lasting friendships between women and that there are other illustrious examples to be studied in our own times, while Al I,Ss, or her own immediate circle women who have been faithful friends for years, be- tween whom the cloud of suspicion has never risen and whom sorrow and ad- versity or that still greater test, fortune and prosperity, could never separate. l There is no so called self made woman who cannot name some faithful woman friend who held out the helping hand | just at the right moment; who opened her doors and received her into the hos | pitality of her own home who sent the timely check that made possible the priceless opportunity which turned the | tide of fortune.
 The faithful friendships between wo- men whose poverty is a common bond could they be known would revive ones faith in human nature and its possibili- ties of divinity. They divide their all -the crowded room, the lean purse, the unwonted luxury, the few possessions and with a self abnegation so complete that one can well believe that life itself would be surrendered if it W re required.
 The real truth is that women who satirize and misrepresent their own sex know nothing of women. They have proved themselves hostile and treacher- ous, and from such traitors good women turn away instinctively. They know that they have nothing to hope for at their hands.
 It is difficult to understand what could be the motive of writers of Mrs. Lynn Lynton's type. Do they seek tt curry favor with men? Is it a method of proclaiming their own superiority over a sex which they have endeavored to prove are so manifestly inferior, nor. ally, Intellectually and physically? Nc one can tell, not even themselves, ii they were pressed for an explanation o1 their motives. They should learn one thing, however, and that is that, how ever their power may be limited ill oth CT directions, women arc social arbiters l 1uS GNllCG Illus SOIlC 1OIlu liltU lIlS1S 1o Ill breach of good breeding moro heinou, than the dctraction and misrcpresenta tion of one woman at the hands of an other. So if conscience and generosity are no restraint rigorous rules of oti quette may be. Tho woman who is ; woman's s worst enemy is no longer tho fashion. As a typo shc is destined t, become as obsolete as Lydia Languisl or ClarisSa Harluwe. Mary H. Krou
 in Chicago Inter Ocean.