The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-08
AN ENEMY TO HER SEX.
That's What Mary II. Krout Says of tho
Editor OF The Saturday Review.


That's What Mary II. Krout Says of tho
Editor OF The Saturday Review.
In the good time that is coming-of
equal suffrage and of equal rights in all
tho avocations Of life the time that
shall mark the abolition of dscriminu-
ton because Of scx-Tho Saturday Re
view will be remembered rs one of tho
chief opponents Of libcrality and JUS
tico Whenever or wherever it can utter
slur upon women, tho falschood and
tho insult have gone forth. Unfortu-
natoly its chief mouthpiecc is woman
IL woman SO sour and hard that ono
wonders much mt tho fato and expert
enco that could SO have imbittcrcd her
judgment that she is incapable of being
even fair upon the simplest question
whcro tho interests OF other women are
involved. The world of working women
has in her pronounced enemy, for she
believes that all women should remain
ut homo and DO protected whether they
havo home or not, and even where
there is no ono willing to assume the
burden Of tho protection The latest
diauibe from. Tho Saturday Review
against tho hated sex is Il charge that
women are incapable of friendship or
even good will toward each other; that
they will betray confidence without re-
greet, break faith with IMMUNITY and
quarrel over pirated bonnet or an
ahcnatcd lover.
1t goes for nothing that history can
give many noble examples of lasting
| friendships between women and that
| there arc other illustriouS examples to
| DO STUDIED Ill our own times. while
! there Is no one who cannot recall i'll his
| or her own immediate circle women who
have boon faithful friends for years, be-
tween whom the cloud of suspicion has
never risen and whom sorrow and ad-
vcrsity or that still greater test, fortune
| and prosperity, could never separate
| There is no SO called self made woman
| who cannot name souio faithful woman
friend who held out the helping hand
| Just at the right moment; who opened
her doors and received her into tho hos
| pitality of her own home who sent the
timely check that made possible tho
priceless opportunity which turned the
| tide of fortune.
Tho faithful friendships between wo-
men whose poverty is IA common bond
| could they he known would revive ones
faith III human nature and its POSSIBLE
ties OF divinity They divide their all
-thc crowded room, the lean purse. the
unwontcd luxury, the few possessions
and with self abncSatiuu so complete
thnt ono can we'll believe that life itself
would be surrendered If II were required
The real truth is that women who
satlrl2e and msreprcsent their own sex
KNOW nothing Of women. They have
proved themselves hostile and treacher-
ous, and from such traitors good women
turn away instiuctivcly They know
that thoy have nothing to hope for at
their hands.
1t is difficult TO understand what
could be the motive Of writers Of Mrs
Lynn Lynton's type Do they seek to
curry favor with men? Is it method
OF proclaiming their own superiority
over sex which they have cmdeayored
to prove are so manifeStly inferior, NOR
ally, intellectually and physically? No
ono can tell, not oven themselves. if
they were pressed for AN explanation of
thoir motives. They should learn one
thing, however, and that is that. how
ever their power may be limited in 9th
or directions, women are social arbiters.
The edict has gone forth that there is no
breach of good breeding more hcinous
than the detraction and misrcpresenta-
ton of one woman AT the hands OF an
othes. So if conscience and generosity
are no restraint rigorous rules OF cti-
quote may be. The woman who is "a
woman's worst enemy is no longer tho
fashion. AS type sho is destined to
become rs obsolete Us Lydia Languish
or Clarissa Hnrlowe Mary II Krout
IN Chicago Inter Ocean.
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