The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-12
HONOR IN WOMEN AND IN MEN.
Canadian Women Discuss the Meaning of
the Word rs Applied to the Sexes.


Canadian Women Discuss the Meaning of
the Word as Applied to the Sexes.
The woman's club held it's regular
fortnightly melting yesterday afternoon
and a a more than usually animated
discussion. The subject was "A Wo-
mans Sense of Honor" and the frat
speaker vas Mrs. II. G. Brown. She
began by reading a newspaper clipping
which gave the executive the idea for
the discussion. and which absolutely de-
MED to the sex feminine any such sense
of honor as is supposed to be possess
ed by men. 1t also stated that the
word gentleman meant nearly every
thing and the word lady next to moth
ing.
After reading the article Mrs. Brown
gave the accepted definition of the
word honor as applied to men and wo-
men as she had been able to ascertain
II. She had consulted all the diction-
aries, she said. new as well as old.
and found them agreed, with but one
exception, in defining honor as integ-
rity or bravery in men and chastity
in women. Milton and many other
writers use il in this sense. and II Is
almost universally k for granted in
literature that women are incapable of
keeping a secret or of proving true
to their friends.
MISS warren gave ntT lutd Oh Nndl
might be meant by the word honor. II
should include everything. she said.
that IL is ever taken to mean when APP
piled TO the sexes separately; for we
do not want a double standard i'm hon
or any more than in other things. And
i'm this sense men and most women
fall short of It. Miss Warren liked the
definition of integrity given by some
dictionaries, and inasmuch as integri-
ty meant Wilderness. she did not see
how a man could be called honorable
who lacked the virtue of purity.
Mrs. Southwell undertook TO answer
the question:: Can a woman be trust
ed with condolences when a matter OF
personal interest is at take?" She said
that whether any individual was wor-
thy of confidence or not depended en-
tirely on the character and was not in
the least a question OF sex.
Mrs. anderson maintained that in
small matters women were not always
strictly honorable, and that they did
not encourage as nice a sense OF homo
in their little daughters al they did
i'm their sons. She thought. however.
that in large matters they were more
honorable than men. She does not be-
lieve in woman suffrage. but thinks
that IL women occupied positions of po-
litical trust they would not allow their
names to be dragged in the dust as
some men do.
Mrs. McNaughton asserted. with
much emphasis. that women had a
keener sense of honor than men. and
added that IL she were to characterize
the writers of the newspaper article
which gave rise to the discussion as
she felt like doing. thew would turn
her out of the club. She aid that
S~hakespeare's women had the highest
| sense OF honor. and from the fact that
/ tho u~nrd cod a. ttcaI anlr of man che
argued that all cads must be male.
She thought. however, that from their
narrower life women were more apt
han men to take personal views Of
things. but said that better times were
coming.
Mrs. Evans said that honor in eth
err man OF woman meant obeying the
voice OF duty. h thought st. Paul
must have believed in woman's honor
since he alluded to honorable wo-
men. not a few"
After the reading of the papers there
was an animated extempore discussion
which centered around the respective
abilities of men and women to keep
faith. Mrs. Southwell maintained that
men were more loyal to each other
than women. inc Mrs. McNaughten re-
torted hat men had more to conceal
than women. and that the habit of
shielding each other grew on them I'M
til II came TO seem innate. Mrs. Evans
took a similar view. Mrs. Stokes said
the notion that men did not gossip
was one of the worst fallacies that
had come to her knowledge. and that
II they did not do quite so many mean
things as women IL was because they
la not so much time.
A all for a definition of the word
cad revealed he fac hat a cad is
one who "meanly admires mean
| fhinOan or sa ytrlCar iI-hrad falInxl
in any social sphere" 1t was the al
most unanimous opinion of the club
that there were lots of women cads.
The president, Mrs. Robert Reid.
mentioned as a significant fact a
at the university the women students
had never been known to crib. while
the men often did. She also said hat
she had asked a number of gentlemen
for their opinion on the matter, and
had found that they looked for as high
a sense of honor In women as In men.
The argument vas summed up by
Mrs. Brown. who said that II was all
a matter of temperament n not of
sex. She knew dishonorable men and
dishonorable women. men that she
would trust n women that she would
trust, and plenty of both sexes whom
she would not trust any further than
she could see them.
The meeting then adjourned. and
the discussion Immediately began again
with redoubled animation. In the
mid OF IL Mrs. Reid asked Miss Petre
to tell the ladies of an experience she
a as n governess. Out of curiosity
Miss Petre answered an advertisement
for a g~overness I'm New York. and
found that she was expected to do all
the sewing take are of an infant in
arms. and teach French. German and
Latin. all for the magnificent sum of
So a week and her lunch. And the wo-
man who asked all his was. to all APP
p~earances. a lady, and no doubt