The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-07-30
FASHIONS IN TEARS. 4 |
strange Is 1t May Seem, There Are Modes
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Strange As 1t May Seem, rhef6 Are Nodes
Even In Weeping.
Fashions change ever in spiritual
matters, and it has been decreed that it
Is no longer a subject of pathetic inter-
est for women to weep.
Those tender lines of Kingsley,
- Tor~men must work
And women must weep
And there's little to do, AA.z kA
But many to keep n ..Azaa# at
Though the harbor bar DO moaning,
arc still true enough when applied to
the men who go down to tina seazip.
ships and to the wives, daughters and
sweethearts who wait and watch for
them. But to the women in town and
country the ediot has gone forth, Weep
no more" The day has passed when
the big, sad eyes, ready to send forth q
food of tears on the slightest proyoca-
ton, can prove ar effective weapon
against refractory man. He knows too.
much about it. IL is useful to a woman
az a relief to her nervous system-any
physician can tell her that it has its
physiological benefts-but masculinity
cannot be subdued by these moist meth
DDS. When, she begins to show the old
fashioned signs of distress, man cruelty
interferes: Now, don't cry. 1t makes
your nose red and your eyes ugly. 1t
won't change me-" Or il he is especial
ly coarse he will shout: For heavens
sake, stop that crying game unless you
want to get rid of mel I won't stand
It."
A woman enjoys crying. The wise
man is aware of thissand is never heart
less enough to attempt stophSlg source
of pleasure. But 1t Is one more reason
why he is not affected by her tears. II
they arise from bodily pain or intense
mental suffering, he is all sympathy,
but the hysterical overflow that can be
produced On an i%nstant's notice, that
seems to be ON tap-because her dress
doesn't fit in one particular or she lacks
q dime to complete one especial pur-
chase-doos not now excite his interest.
When q man cries, 1t is from the
diaphragm, and the sobs give him &C.
tual physical. pain. His sex fellows
know this and can sympathize with
him. But women cry from the chest or
throat without the slightest effort, and
men know hat too. The old German
proyerb, "Nothing dries sooner thar a
tear. " must have been written by u nan
who had had experience with the wiles
of weeping women. There Is a quaint
old English poaIm that gives a list Of
she, variousl evil spirits that infest this
world md i%nflictinjury upon more or
less undeserving mortals, and concludes
f with tire startling statement that "a
weeping woman with two black eyes Is
the w~ickedest devil of them all"
The principal point for the oonaidera-
/ ton Of lwomansis that when she must
have her Sgood, comfortable cry" she
should take her consolation privately.
When not in the presence of unsympa-
thizing man. she may even forget to
: cry, and il che remembers there is u
possibility that she will forget the cause
OF her laohrymose desires, and smiles
may soon chase away the tears as they
did in childish years II the sex has re-
formed In this respect, man need not
claim the credit. 1t is a busy, busting
age, in the cities at least, and there wo-
men have learned to DO wise, earnest
and strong, rs factors in the daily life
of n world that demands the best efforts
from them. They are responding brave
ly and intef1igently. and there is no
time left Tor crying. Philadelphia
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