Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-04-01
WAR ON UNMANNERLY MEN

A recent issue of the London Cen
tlewoman contains the following: Now
that the season is practically over
suggest TO my lady readers that before
next season comes around they should
seriously consider whether they will
calmly and patiently so on enduring
what / can only call the insulting con-
duct of the opposite sex, more espe
We're | woman and had sent out cards
for a party with r S. V. p printed up
on them | should not a second time re-
ceiye those who did not trouble them
selves To reply to my invitation. Men
would very soon come to their senses If
they found fewer cards for dances COM
ing in, fewer invitations tiuttering
through their leettr boxes. For the
average man loves to be run after, as
he calls it. He thinks it is due, his
meter, his profession. He has got in
to his head-which doesn't hold very
much, by the wey-that he SHOULD no
longer be the mighty hunter, but the
mighty hunted.
/. rests with the woman to get that
impossible no yadays to exact or to ex-
peCt from men the graceful manners Of
a former time, the ccurtliness which
only few essayists-su rs the dig
nified Max Bearbohm- delight in or
the chivalry which no longer strikes
the average human being as appro-
pirate except 10 the novels Of Sir Wal
ter Scott Grace. for the moment. is
dead. Tho ordinary hostess cannot
| bring it to life, though a prince or
princess, an emperor or great beauty
might. | do not even ask for elamora-
ton of temper or for intensity of pol
ish, though | confess that | think So
ciety might we'll bear with a little of
both But what | do ask for and do
suggest that all women should demand
with me is decDncy from men who call
themselves gentlemen. No doubt some
OF the men are sulky. They have been
a good deal abused of late, Sex novels
have gone for them and Mrs Sarah
Grand has boxed them first on ono car
and then On the other. But the aver
age man has more experience OF adula-
tion than of contempt and so ne appar-
emily begins 10 hold women in c, n
tempt. He treats her invitations with
vulgar silence. He uses her Ginning
room as an eating house and her buff
fet as bar lie refus IS to dance at
her request or to make things pleas ant
for his fellow guests
All he wants TO do is to eat and TO
drink as much as possible without pay
ing penny for it, aud to enjoy himself
to the utmost limit Of his capacity with
out being Put TO tie smallest atom q
trouble. If others are put t. nconYenl-
cnce does he mind? Not scrap. II
his hostess has no idea whether ne Is
comirg to her dance or whether any
other man Is coming-it she prepares
for hundred men and ten turn up or
p,tt ares FIR fifty aud a hundred come
at the last moment-it is nothing TO
him. so long as the champagne Is dry
and there are hot outlets, greedy slug
gard that he is. empty-headed, con-
ceiled and vulgar all he seeks is ms
own advantage. The women who en-
terrain III London should band them
selves together to give linn severe
lessen. or, if that is impossible, each
individual should dare to act for her
self. very little enterprise would put
the average young man in his place and
make entertaining more lively, less
than il Is at present.