The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-04-18
AN ENEMY 70 Her SEX.
That's What Mary IL. Krout Says OF the
Editor of The Saturday Review.

That's What Mary III. Krout Says OF the
Editor Of The Saturday Review.
In the good time that is coning-of
equal suffrage and Of equal rights in all
the avocations Of life, the time that
shall mark the abolition of discrimina-
ton 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
slur upon women, the falsehood and
the insult have gone forth. Unfortu-
nately its chief mouthpiece is a woman
woman so sour and hard that one
wonders much at the fate and expert
ence that could so have imbittered her
Judgment that she is incapable Of being
even fair upon the simplest question
where the interests Of other women are
involved. The world Of working women
has in her pronounced enemy, for she
believes that all women shonld remain
at home and be protected, whether they
have 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 a 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 impunity and
quarrel over a pirated bonnet or an
alienated lover
1t goes for nothing that history can
give many noble examples of lasting
ff-iQndghinc hafxraan nd fhat
there are other illustrious examples to
be studied in our own times, while
there is no one who cannot recall in his
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
There is no so called self made woman
who cannot name some faithful woman
friend who held ont 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 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 self abnegation so complete
that one cap well believe that life itself
would be surrendered if it were 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-
Gus, and from such traitors good women
turn away instinctively. They know
that they 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 endeavored
to prove are so manifestly inferior, NOR
ally, intellectually and physically? No
one can tell, not even themselves, if
they were pressed for an explanation of
their motives. They should learn one
thing, however, and that is that, how
ever their power may be limited in 9TH
er directions, women are social arbiters.
The edict has gone forth that there is nc
breach of good breeding more heinous
than the detraction and misrepresenta-
ton of one woman at the hands of an
other. SO if conscience and generosity
are no restraint rigorous rules Of Ell.
quette may be. The woman who is a
woman's worst enemy is no longer the
fashion. As a type she is destined tc
become as obsolete as Lydia Languish
or Clarissa Harlowe Mary H. Krout
in Chicago Inter Ocean.