The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-30
WOMAN is SOCIABLE.
AND IN 1T SrE is AN UNADUlTER-
ATED DEMOCRAT.
Junius Henri Browne Says There Are No
Feminine Misanthropes But, While
Woman Likes to Talk, She Is willing
to Listen to Others.

Feminine misanthrOpes - But, Whlo |
Woman Likes to Talk, She Is willing
to Listen to Others.
copyright, 1897. by the Author.l
Woman's social instinct exists even
in savage state and has often been OBJ
served by explorers and travellers. Ages
of civilization develop this instinct un-
til il becomes almost passion. AL
though generally excessive in her, it 10
at least human and tends to the human
ization of the race. 1t is in marked con-
trast with mans nature, for while SO
cial in disposition it is mainly-in his |
youth. AS he gathers years his sociabil-
ity is apt to decline. After his prime he
is prone TO reticence, solitariness, fire.
quently to cynicism.
Not so with woman. She is common
ly social as long as she lives, her socia-
bility often increasing with time. Mel
ther age nor disappointment, neither
suffering nor hard experience, can as
rule make her bitter. Who has ever
heard of veritable feminine nissan
thrope? That word, as well as cynic, has
but one gender. Thank nature for this.
If it were otherwise, where would man
find his comfort, his consolation?
Woman, like Ahou ben Adhem, loves
her fellow men, her fellow women like
wise, and wants to be with them as
much as she can. Fatuists declare this
affection is based on her passion for talk
ing, for hearing her own voice. This
may have something to do with IT, but
her indiscriminate, unvarying relish for
| company, for going out, for doing any
thing and everything, is principally due
to her social instinct. To man, so diff
ferently constituted that in many things
he cannot understand her, this miscel-
laneous, universal going seems to be an
incurable mania. He can comprehend
WHY she likes, if he does not, to go
here, to 90 there, to do certain things,
but not the extreme to which she car
ries the habit. Does she, can she, COM
prehend it herself? Probably not. She
is disinclined TO study or to analyze her.
. self.
She-the average woman-is a crea
ture of impulse, of multifarious desires
of endless whims and fancies, contlnu
ally changing, but never extinct. Sh'
is restless, nervous, fidgety-inwardly
if not outwardly-stuffed with mai
, formed, shadowy purposes, many o
which she never executes or tries 10 eA
ecute. She often pronounces places ant
. persons that she visits bores, but tina
a does not prevent her from VISITING
:. them again, again and again. A man
! breads being bored that he is not llkel
i to repeat his experience OF boredoi
g voluntarily; hence he infers that
t woman is incapable of annoyance i'll tha
s form, much as she may speak OF II.
J. is to her, perhaps, but an empty name
l. She will go to lectures that have L
'e meaning to her, to see collections th'
= do not interest her, to sermons that al
unmistakable trash, to hear politics
- speech prosy and commonplace to Il
n last graduation, to public meetings WI
is which she has not the slightest symp
tby. She has no object but to go; 10
something, no matter what; to chani
nlaces: to vary the situation; to gain
: theme for talk, though she can talk
ne the same themes every day in the ye
IS without WEAKNESS to herself. VI cou1
he she must have good deal OF lelsu
u and must live in a big town to do
~ this. But if her home be IN sm'
town. where there are necessarily II
entertainments or amusements, she W
bnsv herself with trifies she Will &C
Time the same monotonous course we
-, after week, month after month
I'll dull thing she has done q hundred tln
led che will do for the hundred and frst
'ed the hundred and fiftieth time as IL
sea were complete novelty. Custom
SCI so, never make tedious anything that
M nertains directly or indirectly TO gol
$ out to company.
ay, For genuine conversation she mas
&c regard. She does not apprehend H. On
~, principally q monologist, but cares
sed 70 monopolize, being entirely Will
sea any one else, any number OF persons
~ deed, shall take part If she Is not
esh nected to listen. She constantly
esh nnestions which those unacquaih
y 1y;tb her answer until they learn
&c; thev soon do. that she makes no not
ois, answers of any sort. The questions
ov- altogether rhetorical, though they 81
roc. literal. earnest, induced by eager c
800 osity. They may be so when put
ward, but the questioner has no tim
20 hear responses. Occupied as she Is
600; entirely unimportant matters she
r of views the impression of personal mon
ow- tousness; that she cannot afford TO"
S,,,r that she has most things at comm'
and leisure always excepted.
and Socially she is an unaduitera'eo .
ums ocrat. All the persons she meets apl
rev oN nm the same footing to her impai
!. in mind. She welcomes and feels at n
with every one of them. This is an n
mirable trait, worthy of commenda
%. and credit in republic where SO n
ON Of her countrymen are socially MAJ
~. y. and cultivate reputation for exciu
' .pSs ness. Her superlative sociapih,y
lis: sorbs other considerations. Her de
heep racy NAV arise from a kind OF ego'
,rket making her think that anybody
e y 90 enough for her is entitled TO pass
To observe her one might suppos
2s N be electioneering. She has pie'
| - N FRIENDLY