The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-09-12
WILL WOMAN EVER WOO?
Opinions of Various Library Persons on
This Enormously Important Topic.

This Enormously Important Topic.
How to court the advanced woman"
is a subject that is discussed by one
man and several women in Mr.. Jerome
X ]erome's "Idler." The man opens
the ball and describes what he is pleased
to call the development of the enamel
mated woman. " He goes back to the
early DAYS when women were spoil,
when imam went counting with club,
form of courtship which inclined the
lady "to respect for her lord and mas
fer. and to have definite idea of his
superiority, physical and mental, and
this he finds the best way.
From spoil woman passed to "chat-
tel" More numerous, she became
cheaper, " and as a chattel 'she was
offered by her guardian to the highest
bidder. AS the mans mind expanded
he began ''to see matters Ill their true
light" and lin his wisdom refused to
part with his goods for the possession
of a wife, - maintaining that the bar
gain was one sided.
Woman then passed "to the souvenir
state" She was given away without
exchange. - This "happy state of affairs
lasted but n short time" The young
man "still sought the maiden. but
with laudable foresight and thrift
he Cooked to the guardian to provide
the means to keep the bride-and incl
dentally the husband - in proper
state.
Woman babe farewell to the ''souve-
MIR stage and entered upon what may
be described as with a pound of tea"
period. At first man was content with
enough cash OF kind to keep him and
his bride for year or maybe two, but
this again increased to ample for twice
a lifetime of luxury and ease. Now
even that stage of progress has been
passed, and as an outcome we have the
"emancipated woman" or man wOm-
an" As yet it is true they are few III
number, though mighty Of speech and
of pen.
AS tc marriage between an intellec-
tual woman and an average man,
George EgertOn 'cannot see how he
will suffer by his marriage with her.
She will have tact enough to make him
feel proud of her brain and tenderness
enough to make him feel sure of her
heart. Woman at her best Will always
be attracted by manly qualities in a
man, and if the average man is only
prepared to give as we'll as take, to
realize that the woman he marries has
conscience, opinions and feelings OF
her own, and to treat them with the
same Difference as he would extend, say,
to these of a male chum, he may safely
risk counting her-and as much Ill the
old way as possible.
Mrs. Warrington Caffyn, the author
of "A Yellow Aster, >" thinks that it
would be advisable to let the advanced
woman alone for awhile" as she lis
suffering little from knowledge shock,
or more perhaps from an overdose of
unassimilated knowledge and its disa-
greeting with her constitution and dis
torting her mental vision.
Lady Violet Greville, who writes
sporting novels. thinks that the advanc-
ed woman may do her own counting:
The average man is certainly no
match for the advanced woman, and if
she makes up her mind to eschew mar
riage altogether, which really seems
the only logical outcome Of her opin-
ions, there is no doubt that, outnumber
ed and Outwitted, we must succumb to
her superior dominion. Then perhaps
we might return to primitive times,
and man, like the peacock, spread his
plumes in the sunshine TO attract the
womans admiration, while she, plain,
neatly dressed in mems clothes and re-
nouncing all claims to beauty, stood by
S~Ornful and recalcitrant. -