The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-10
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aHgR ROYAL RICHNESS NORMAN


Max O'RsIrs nafvege II setting be-
fore the world some three hundred
pages concerning his appreciation Of
woman would be amusing we're not
The specifications and geHerziizations
50 trfEe-not TO say banal- Regarded
as a Frenchman's unbiased impress
sions OF American women, OF their
freedom and OF the effect OF this free
dom on the women OF other nations.
his remarks are not without interest
But the general tone OF the book
smacks too much Of the cleFerness of
the sawdust ring. and brings wildly
before our minds a tight frOck
coated Frenchman, waving airy kisses
10 q simpering feminine public. He
dweiIs on the effect which the differ
ent types OF women have on him in
diYidually; and, looked AZ from per
fectiy impartial point OF view, We can't
see what earthly interest this can be
70 any one but Mr.. O'Reu His Max
inns for Married Men and Married Wo-
men" certainly come under the head
Of cheap wit We could be as funny
as that ourselves. The most popular
newspaper of the day has its heart
~ 4EaAL N<AAho viii
-maximsT are as profound as these are
abundant. When he sinks TO such
commonplace as his jeers at mothers
in-law, words fail US.
He 8as the rooted dislike of his sex
to the New Woman, and his remarks
concerning her are very much TO the
point:
Where is that New Woman 70 be
found7 Put together a hundred wo-
men. intelligent and OF good society;
take out the beautiful ones; then take
out the married ones who are loved by
their husbands and children, and kind
ly seek the New Woman among what
is left-ugly women, old maids and
and neglected wives. /
pity from the bottom of my heart |
the good woman who is not 10 know |
the whispers of love of a good hus- |
band or the caresses of little children, |
but | am not prepared to see life be
come a burden for her sake. . y
Women, priests and poultry never |
have enough. but in wishing to extend |
her empire, woman will destroy it,"
He scores the British matron for her /
prudery:
Her cars are most easily shocked,
but not her eyes. She objects to the /
word, not to the thing. In her way
she is a reaIist. The thing speaks
for itself; it is the truth, whereas the
word suggests 20 her fantastic imagi-
nation the most Objectionable ideas
When | reflect that Eve, after
eating an apple, discovered that she
was naked, cannot help thinking that
a little bite at that fruit might be of
service to many ladies before they
leave their dressing TO go TO a
ball"
Writing for an American public, he
would not be Frenehman if he did
not express in glowing terms his ad-
for its women. He admires
heir unconventionality, their unaf-
ected ways, and he pays them a trib
tie after the manner of his country.
We can see him with his hat in his
land. his hand on his heart, bowling
ow to her whose intelligence he
places above that of all other women.
That being the case it would be safe
o predict that. in spite of, possibly
because of, the epigrammatic ten
lency of the book, she will find
leither any fund of amusement nor
God for deep thought in Her Royal
1ighness, Woman" But, perhaps,
the preface, the book
vas meant for the special delectation
If American men, for whom the au-
hor seems to have a good-natured
contempt.
Published by the Abbey Press, New
FORK; price, S1.50. Wall-Nichols Co,