The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-05
w oman's World.


a perfect rage for delving into the soul OF
woman and analyzng her every whim'
fancy and ambition; her mind is being MI
croscopicaly examined and her intellect
x-rayed; her ideas are being CLASSIFIED and
put carefully aside to assist the student III
hiss conclusions. ana her crudest likes and
dislikes are being fioated 10 the front TO
tighten the subject. Woman, to her cre1Ie
be it said, goes her own superb way with
supreme Indifference 10 the sayings and
doings Of her critics, so that 1t is not prob
able that the sex viii be greatly benefited
bv the efforts to reduce 1t to a mere thing
within the comprehension of all. like ordl-
nary men, But the rage for dissecting
feminine souls is growing nevertheless
For instance. one man gravely inquiries;
do women loves brutes?" Then he pro
ceeds to answer his own question at great
length in this way:
NO matter how much woman may
yearn to be kicked downstairs, 1t is desrad-
ing in the man to crafty her yearnings.
we may take 1t as a axiom Indeed there Is
no space here TO argue out the question:
that what is called the spirit of chivairy IN
mana tenderness and respect and reNer-
enee for womanhood-has been a potent
factor in bringing about the civilization OF
the present. Man has learned the great
lesson that TO be a bully is not to be brave
that the courage which refrains from US
ing superior strength is the highest and
truest courage, and that to repress eva
emotions, to master unruly passions, to
control mean and ugly moods IS TO be
doubly a man.
women have not yet learned this lesson.
Especially they have not yet learned to re
spoct the manifestations In man. woman
loves the brave man is an excellent
French mot. she adores the audacious
man The pinchbeck of audacity Is more
attractive in her eyes than the gold oil true
bravery. This is a survival from the saw
age periods when the recklessness OF au-
dacity would often carry It over the Ieu-
cence of courage, when prompt ana bold
action was often more efficient than we'll
considered delay. Times have changed, but
woman do not change as quickly as the
tirles The conditions under which audac-
ity was a prime virtue do not exist. Wo-
man Is not fully conscious of the revolu-
tons that have occurred. She lives IN
condition of atavism, the survival OF
mood that has ceased In man. He, being
the NOR. progressive animal. must seek to
bring her up to his level He must teach
her that the virtues of the savage are not
the virtues of the civilized being and that
in yearning to find in him some traces Of
prlmeval saVagery she is prejudicing the
future prospects of the race.
ION evolutionary grounds, therefore,
hold this truth to be self-evideut-that no
man should touch woman save in the
way of kindness
Another man comes forward and asks
some one TO tell him why girls persist in
having wrong ideals Apparently getting
no satisfactory answer he proceeds TO be-
rate the sex in this wise:
THE sexes dominate each other by their
differences and complimentary qualities
not their likenesses and equalities. and
when a woman wears the breeches she is
or ought to be as offensive to man as
man disguised in petticoats is or ought to
be offensive to woman. GU may retain all
your wealth of spirits, your rich animal
nature, your warm heart your sympathy
with man and his pursuits; these win help
YOU to Judge him fairly, and fit you TO
offer and receive weal@ of love and SYM
pathy which a representative, neurotc and
less robust woman in mind and body
would be quite powerless to yield But the
sooner you renounce the old chaDpe and
tip US the wink style the better. The
braVado of a cigar in a biiliard-room only
, y
YOU to smoke il, and the free use of knick-
erbockors. rifles. cricket balls. and many
coats, collars, ties and waistcoats robs You
of your womanhood without making you
man, or in the least adorable in the eyes
of men, women, or children"
Then a magistrate jumps UP and claims
the floor, to throw into the controversy his
own wealth of experience gathered through
much study of the sex from the bench.
Here is the magistrates contribution:
zone expects, as a matter of course, that
the mother will shield the degenerate son.
The tendency of all the women who appear
before me in couri-wife, mother. sister,
sWeetheart-is always TO cloak the mis-
deeds of the man.
"a woman will forgive anything in a
man-except another woman Occasion
ally she forgives the man even this last
cardinal offense. But she never forgvcs
the other woman.
"Of the women who come before me as
prosecuting drunken husbands or sons IS
per cent are prepared to condone the Of
tense.
Under the stress Of anger, resentment
and sense of outrage, the wife is determin-
ed that the law shall take its fun course.
She viii have no mercy on the drunk
ard, who has beaten her and starved her
children. l leave it to her to fix the ex-
tent of the punishment. Shall d be a
month, three months. six months? She
lows him TO be led away TO Jail"
And then, the great question OF what
she is here for. The student has a hard
time settling that. An advanced indi.
vidual furnishes the following treatise on
the subject:
Men have the faculty of separating
themselves from their business, as from
their pleasure, at will. Women have not
this faculty. The occupation that In a
certain sense is of a mans life an outside
issue is apt to be a woman's whole exist
ence. Whatever a woman does she does
wholly and entirely. not in part Continu-
Gus calculation, harping on ways and
means. without humanzng influences,
blunts the sensibilihes. The old maid in
her benghted dependence has a plethora
of humanizng Influences sandwiched in
with the veXat!ons trials Of her lot.
"Why don't you write about married
men who lead girls to love them?" askec
the young woman. "Mauy girls need
word Of warning in this matter"
81 hardly think" 1 said, chat the CIR
who needs it would heed it. There is some
thing wrong with her if she does not stoI
the mans first advance beyond circum