The Atlanta constitution., 1900-07-16
O'RELL WRITES OF WOMEN.


What a world of subject matter woman
furnishes for men writers, and now reauy
they are to point out TO woman what sho
should be and what she should not pe'
Every individual man has his Ideal, which
he holds up as the one in the woria wIicn
all women should strive to be- women
can't help laughing "all to themselves
when they read all this pretty talk apout
what they should be- and realize that
men with ideals are always the very
easiest fooled.
Max O'ReI .s filling an allotted space
I'm a big newspaper in New YORK every
Sunday by telling the type OF wona"
he likes and the kind he does not IKE
lie quite loses his gallantry when no
selects as his topic this week "Ihe Wo-
man Hate" The type he portrays Is
lust the one that would laugh good-na-
turedly at what he says. and TO use De
cidedly ordinary but expressive term,
..wIpe him off the face OF the earth
I'm any kind OF controversy whether WITH
ten or spoken.
Ernest Renan, whom nobody Would
dream of charging with frivolity' ssui
that the first duty of woman was 10
look beautiful Victor Hugo once SAID
that It was to look pleasant. In mytholo-
ey we find that the gods fell IN love with
Venus but never with Minerva After
these Introductory observations ORell
adjusts his spectacles. ard In cruel cold
type proceeds TO lay down the law 10
woman as follows:
The functions of woman are to inspire
and To guide. not to lead or command, and
! think that the saddest spectacle OF tnls
latter end of the nineteenth century Is
the supremely ridiculous efforts made by
some women to usurp functions which by
I ma
Poor women righters They cannot be
! men and they want to cease to be women
| Men and women are like electric huids-
when OF the same name. they repel edch
/ other; when of different kinds, they at
| tract each other. Now. women Fighters
are seldom beautiful, very seldom aluac-
| tive n manly Woman Is as obJectlonabIe
a sight as an effeminate man. Inc Dlue-
stockings are mostly of the unclaimed
blessing slsterhOod. and very few Of
them set up for professional beauties
| The blue-stocxing faseinates me as much
AS the bearded lady of a Chicago dime
museum.
.When r. woman Is beautiful she Is
| generally satisfied with playing a wo-
I mans part. The tedious women Fighters
| embrace the thankless career OF expo
| neuts Of women's grievances because
! they have ever found anything better to
/
cellent ladies must not put 1t into their
heads that they have created the part.
for IL existed In the days OF Aristophanes; !;
| PraNagora was neither more nor less
! ridiculous than most of the present chala-
/ piOns of women's rights.
| Il hate the woman who appears In
/ public / hate tho woman who lectures
/ IN public or in private. ] hate the wo-
/ man who rises to make speech after
/ dinner | hate the woman VINO speaks
about politics and would like 10 SIT in
| parliament 50 as to transform 1t into a
! chatterment | hate the scientific woman
I who lectures on evolution or writes on
/ natural philosophy. / hate the lady ply
sician. the lady lawyer the lady member
/ OF the school board. the lady preacher,
| tho Lady president. the lady secretary the
/ lady reciter. even the lady who conducts
/ an orchestra / hate the prominent wo-
/ man. And although l don't see her. l
hate the woman who writes a book and
feel almost ready TO eXclaim with Al
phonse Karr: one more book and one
/ woman less!
! Compared TO all these, how ! love the
/ pretty woman who dresses well. smiles
I pleasantly parts her hair in the middle,
I and has never done anything in her life!
/ Abr Will exclaim the hateful woman, but
see she wears the collar Of servtude. >
! Nonsensel The marks that you see on
/ her neck are not those of collar OF
servitude. but these made by the arms
OF the husband and the children that
| clasp her round It
Women. priests and poultry have never
enough. but In wishing 10 extend her en-
I plre, woman viii destroy il.
Now ladies, what do you want?
hear YOU constantly. loudly demanding
| the emancipation of your sex. You say
/ you can do without US, and as for our
| protection. you'll none of II. For you,
| in times past, have We drawn the sword
| today you hold us scarce worthy TO draw
checks at your bidding. You would be
mans equal, as If you ought not to be
| content with being incontestably his su-
| perior. You have graces of body and
! mind and men pay you homage that falls
/ little short of worship. Your first duties
| are to be tender. sweet and beautiful.
| You have every intention of continuing
! TO be the latter we have no doubt. but
| YOU mean to be tender and sweet no
| longer. In a word. you mean to strike, as
your sister did in the good old days of
| Aristophanes.
| You want to be learned? But you are
| learned in the hearts lore by nature.
I You want to be free7 But we are your
slaves confessed. You want TO make the
laws7 But your lightest word is law al
/ ready. Ana, besides, between ourselves,
do you not practically make your hus-
| bands vote pretty much as you please In
| all the parliaments of the world7 You
! want 10 have more influence In the high
| er councils7 But are you not satisfied
with knowing that It was a woman who
| was the cause of the fall OF the human
race: that a woman has been the cause
| of every great catastrophe. from the
| siege OF Troy down to the Franco Prus-
sian war; that in a word. woman has
ever inspired our noblest actions and our
fouleet crimes. The rights OF womanl
| What a sonorous platitude!
you are proud of saying that TO your
| Sex belonged Joan of Arc. Charlotte Cor
| day, George Sand. George Eliot. Char
| lotte Bronte, Madame Roland, Madame
dc Stael. Quite true; but could you find
many men who would have been happy
by taking to wife any one of the ladies'
/ have just mentioned?
"lf you give n boy the education OF a
! girl or q girl the education of n boy, tho
| result will be an unsubmissive or degrad-
ed being 1t IL always this result which
| must be reached by all who. believing
that they are protesting against laws and
usagesL are really in rebellion against ma
| ture dream of a society said Jules
| Simon, "where women would be the mis-
tress In their own households, and would