The sun., 1901-07-28
THE CAUSE OF WOMAN:
vonASy HEAD 10 osrTINe LA1esA
IyD HAS A RI0BT TO 10 50.

AND HAS M0bT 10 Do 20.
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A.ssrtsA ne Wise Burgess q Hsasseeal.
rh. .,atsment that "woman's head 10
..,sns bigger will not occasion surprise.
Conditions In recent years have been such -
- conduce to q swelling Of her head. Aside
,,or . few questions Of q political nature
,h.re IA no topic 40 much discussed. Observe
,bs output Of maga mines for any month and
yo,, will see that each contains one or more
articles on woman. The daily papers are
Anil Of this popular subject. II writer or .
nublic speaker notices q waning attention
On the part Of his audience. he launches forth
an .ome phase Of the woman question and
revive. the Tagging interest. Various
authors Of both seIes have written whole
hook. on this nany.sided theme. In this
ronderful age Of transition the changes
taking place In the status Of woman are more
r,pd and striking than any others. One
never opens his morning paper without
,se,nr some wholly new and novel thing
accomplished by q woman. She In In a con-
s,.nt state Of experiment and continually
"
and condemned. encouraged and thwarted.
n.ttsrsd and .colded. She lives under .
continuous FIRE of criticism. favorable and
quite the contrary and she Ia watched without
rsa.Ing to sse what she will do next.
Filling thus - large q place In the public
syr.it is not at all wonderful n she II getting
an exaggerated idea Of her own Importance
But comes now . phrenoloRist and tells us
that By actunl measurement womsn's heads
are growing larger. and not only are they
exceeding the average size for women. but
some Of them are positively going beyond
the average for men Now. II you take away
from, tho opponent Of the now woman his
pet assertion that her brain Ia smaller than
q mans, where will he rest the lever of his
argument to prove her natural inferiority?
His attention has often boon called to the
fact that her hands. her feet and her whole
physical structure are smaller than q man. a,
bu, this does not prevent her doing her
part OF the worlds work. Scientists also
have frequently asserted that there IL no
definite ratio between the size Of the brain
and development Of intellect and that idiots
often have abnormally large brains. Just
50 long. however. a. men really had. or
thought they had bigger heads than wo-
men. they could claim the headship. so to
speak. even II 1t put them in the same class
with the above mentioned idiots But now
the very tape measure has conspired against
the only theory which woman herself had
not already shattered by practical proof
Of Its fallacy.
tended to increase the bump Of woman's self
esteem and lessen that Of man. viz: the
last census report. A mistaken idea always
has existed that there was a large excess
Of females over males In tho population Of
the United States. The census OF 1890 ex-
ploded this by showing over q million more
males than females, and the one OF 1900 in
dicates a still greater disparity. even the
States OF Indiana. Iowa. Kansas and others
% the middle West recording more man than
women. and. In fact. only Q few In the ex-
treme Fast containing more women than
men. This will remove the stigma Of "su-
pernuous women which always has made
the unmarried feel as IL they were on the
bargain counter and the supply far exceeded
the demand. 1t will tend also to jar the COM
placency enjoyed by men in the thought
that there were not enough OF them to 60
around. Il il really the men who are -su-
per6uous." and a million or two Of them will
have to flock by themselves. whether they
like II or not.
Now that women have learned this fact
and have shown in the colleges that the quality
II not the quantity Of their brain IL quito
sau1l to q mans. and have proved in the
business world that their capacity for earn
ing money Is at least sufficient TO save them
from a life Of utter dependence. there 10 no
reason for surprise at the official announce
ment OF an increase Of one-hslf an inch In the
size Of their heads. n the ratio OF progress
continues IL Is not impossible that u genera
ton or two hence some sort Of compress viii
have TO be devised to prevent any further
enlargement.
Apropos Of this subject, Max O'Rell. hav-
ing exhausted every other. or his readers,
has been limiting himself to this one and
showing his limitations. 1t IL only a few
s not snSs ss syaenes sns ,Sr s
] were to be born again and could not be a
Frenchman. ! should pray. q Lord. make
me an American woman" One scarcely
can imagine n greater contrast
Then last winter. in an appropriately yellow
Journal. accompanied by his photograph
and whole page of other hair-rasing Illus;
woman! Deliver me from the woman who
writes booksT
Is this professional jealously' His own
last born is devoted wholly TO the Eternal
Feminine" and suggests the thought that
before he produces another u would he ad-
vsable to strength his mind by companions
ship with men-if the men do not object,
Among the numerous articles in the July
magazines on this subject which figured
conspicuouslv ne far back as the first chap
ter Of Genesis. IS one in the Cosmopoiita"
entitled. What Women Like in Men" TIE
ideal there depicted would shake the resolli-
ton Of the most cynical bachelor maid who
ever dened the fascination Of the other sea
In fact. when he makes his appearance, she
lowers her flag of independence and will
lngly. yes. gladly follows the advice OF Miss
Mulock and makes herself n door mat for
his feet" This ia the way she does u accord
ins TO the writer who. being himself man
understands the modls operundl:
The teaching OF her early years, the tradition,
Of her sea- the tears. the doubts, the hesitancts
one man OF her life. she stands before him In tina
pDaendld shsmelessness which Is the rnest thina
= perfect love. Mind, hear. and soul all cry ou
shaken with passion, and thrilling with the ecstasy
that but In any life she knows that ihe r.
can be no 10y for her so overwhelming as to Ole 10
adofation a, his feet
1t is always pleasant. not to say edifying
for women to know just the sort OF devotion
that men like best but the power is not given
10 all to deecribe this SO POLITICALLY as the rhap'
sodlst in the CosmO pohidn. For instance.
common newspaper man. who never could
rscenty In the Chicago Record Herald:
III were n wagon wheel
And thou. dear, the ground
How gayly would ! feel
As Tuay Yelled around
through the sIop and the slush,
In the mud and the miro.
WIN you. love. 10 gush
All tire,