Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-25
DEsERET EVENING NEWS. SATURDAY NOVEMBER s5. 1893

| to tell his wife how much more cul-
tivated and learned the American wo-
man Is than the American man.
I'm going 10 have him smile politely
at the assumption that the belonging
90 Browning handbook club or an
lbsen study class means real culture
My hero shall sit calmly by and hear
women whose one aim IN life Is 20
outshne their friends talk about high
ideals and noble standards.
My hero Is going 20 hear himself and
his ways and his thoughts and his
habits and his Ideals criticised and vim
dictiyely attacked, In large and en-
thusiastc conventions to which the
woman he supports In ease and luxury
Is a delegate.
He's going to look at the woman he
loves and say. "Ah, well, she doesn't
mean II. bless her heart when she has
held him and all his tribe and follow
ing W to scorn and obloQuy because
he forgot TO mail letter telling the ash
man to come az o'clock instead Of at
4:45.
He's going to stop In the midst Of a
crowded busy. hurrying, distrscting
day a day spent IN a hard fight for a
few more dollars for her-to match
sample az a shop, so as 60 give her
time 20 60 TO the club and discuss her
shameful subsection.
He's going to come home so tired that
he can scarcely hold his head Up. so
tired that II II were not for the woman
and her children there at home, he
would wish he could lie down some
where. where he could hear the trees
rustling and sleep away his nfe-and
he's going 70 swallow o hasty dinner
ard force himself into dress suit. TO
go. to STUPID reception, just because
She wants him TO take her there.
He's going to-but can't tell II all
hore--it win take q book 10 DO 70.
Look at the man you browbeat. my
good ide1llsuc well-meaning woman
look 90 him with all his follles and all
his faults.
Think o. him when he's cross be.
cause you want him 10 ask his way
somewhere. and he'd rather die with
bis masculine cOnCeit upon him than
90 acknowledge that he doesn't know
evtrythIng-eve the street he cannot
find
Remember him when he has little
cold, and gets so scared % death over
the least pain that he wants TO send
for the doctor and make his WIN i'm
mc1latcly Call to mind his deadly de-
yotion 10 his hat, his queer cling
ing 10 strange hours for eating his way
Of wanting 10 know why you can't make
a $50 gown look as well as a 500 one
the woman across the way has
Bring TO your mind all his strange
intolerance which makes him hate In a
woman the very faults he induces in
her think Of him at his worst his very
worst-aud then consider a little-isn't
IL wonderful-not that there are so
many bad men. but that there are so
many good ones?
Put yourself in his place-just a min
ute-just little, generous. honest fair
minded minute-could you bear the bur-
den he carries one-half as well as he
bears 10?
Could you grind grind, grind. at the
money-making mill sick or we'll hope
ful or discouraged rain or shine. loved
or unloyed, as he does, and make as
good a face Of cheer and happiness
over ~
Women have their wrongs and their
sorrows. Only a woman who has felt
the knife In her own heart knows how
deep and how agonzing a womans
pain can be.
Women have their cares, their ankle
ties. their responsibilities. No creature
who lives can deny that
Men have their faults, grievous and
hard for the women who love them to
bear No man lives who will even try
10 deny that
Men do not claim the privileges OF
omniscience.
That Is distinctly feminine trait.