The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-07-20

bright woman, and she said it emphat-
ically, ssthat I am tempted sometimes
to devote the balance Of my life to
contradicting. [ think it would take
lifetime-the belief in them is so
deep rooted.
A questioning glance from pair Of
gray eyes encouraged the bright wo-
man to continue:
II know. my dear, you are wonder
ing what at last has made me come to
believe that there is in life for me a
possible mission. Well, it is just
this: Have you ever taken note Of
the exasperatingly foolish things that
man believes woman does that she
never does do? Now, it is just these
wrong impressions that want to COZ
rect.
The owner Of the gray eyes, who
was also woman, smiled. Her smile
said that she had noted from time to
time that mans ignorance OF woman
was something extraordinary.
';Think of it, said the bright wo-
man, s'just think of 1.-THE foolish
things that are set down to being just
like woman IF a woman does
something particularly clever and
praiseworthy she is called unusual,
but if she is guilty of piece Of fool
ishness, Immediately a thousand mas
culine voices are raised to say, just
Ike woman.
ssIn the first place, there is hardly
a man in the land but thinks that
when he has been as often as four
times to call or girl that girl is quite
certain he is in love with her. As a
matter of fact, 1t takes considerable
devotion on the part Of the modern
man to make the modern maid think
he adores her. She has learned to
know that large number of young
men consider dancing attendance upon
an attractive young woman merely a
pleasurable pastime. If you want to
help me with my mission work, my
dear, you may start out by assuring
all your masculine acquaintances that
they are inclined to fatter themselves
too highly.
aAnd then there is the idea that a
woman peeps into every mirror and
shop window that will reflect her
image, and that she ties her car fare
up in the corner Of her handkerchief,
and spends unlimited amounts of
money on ice cream soda, never is on
time to keep an appointment, tells
small fbs, delights to have a lot Of
proposals just for the fun Of refusing,
and so on. And it," went on the
bright woman, such things do chance
to happen, how much better we d feel,
and so much more individual, if we
were only allowed chance for argu-
ment instead of having the whole
thing finally settled with, 'Oh, that's
Just like awoman.
And when I left them, the bright
woman-who is herself young and
pretty-and the woman with the gray
eyes, they were talking earnestly over
what the bright woman had first be-
gun laughingly to discuss.
1t bothers the woman whose pride
it is to live above the pretty vanities,
and to be honest in love affairs, and
punctual in keeping appointments, to
know that men ascribe any shortcom-
iDgs she may be guilty Of to the ma
ture of her sex. She would far rather
have them condemned than condoned
through any such reasoning. But
though | did not say so to the bright
woman and the woman with THE gray
eyes, know that the task they are
setting for themselves is hopeless
one-hopeless because since the days
when Mother Eve let her curiosity get
away with her Judgment a Thousand
small follies have been looked upon.
not as startling, but as a part Of wo-
mans nature.
1t isn't pleasant to discover that our
idols have clay feet, but sometimes
one takes little secret delight in re-
vealing these same clay feet, Of other
people idols, | mean.
Our idols. you know, are often III
the shape of OLD traditions. wonder
if the bright woman and the gray-eyed
woman won t find that the world would
rather wag on, believing woman frail
and trihe unreliable? do not be-
lieve they will find the beaux of the
present day ready to believe that
girl of to-day does not expect to be
.dorod hy ovarv man she meets lust