Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-08-22
ARE WOMEN 81:
WEAKER THAN MEN9
(By Max o'Rell)

g( her i'll close contact, yet they Know
next to nothing of each other For
instance, to this very day women 0re
said 10 belong to the weaker set. Nav,
is this a fact?
When | see what women can 10 dur
ing the fashionable season, ! say That
1t is not | will give as an illus.ra-
tion the fact that, on d bank holiday,
you will see a little woman walk from
morning til late at night, carrying q
baby in her arms, while ten minutes
is the limit of the amount of time
that |, a very strong man, have been
able to carry one, because you will say
that such women have been used to
hard work and rough life from ear
ly childhood-which is true to GER
tain extent
Let us speak for the others.
For years | was a man enjoying the
best possible health, but if | kept late
hours on two consecutive nights, l
should feel unfit for work or even for
| NV ShJoyuSllI VI lIlt lOI JWO OI JnISC
| days, and if | spent third night in
the same way | know | should look
and behave like a ghost in search of
grave to take rest in.
l know women who, fortwo or three
months, attend two or three at homes
day, lunch party, dinner party,
| hnCinpC n thpofor I,al
hardly seem to suffer from it,
If | sit in draft for a couple of
minutes, am bound to catch a fearful
cold in my head, which | have the
greatest difficulty in preventing from
| going on my chest; but women, decol-
lete, some a great deal too much, 9TH
ers a great deal more, will night after
night spend hours and hours in that
state in drafts, in the open air even,
and, while undergoing these trials and
ordeals that would kill the strongest
railway porter, will in the morning
look pink and rosy.
And these often fragile women who
thus expose themselves and do not
catch pleurisy, congestion ofthe lungs
rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, chills
nor even colds, every night pour into
their little insdes dinners of mixed
rich courses, one of which would make
me unable to work and look cheerful
for couple of days. And all the
time they smile, don't say naturally
and cheerfully, but they do smile
No doubt at the end of the season
they go to Vichy or Carlsbad for a
thorough repair, or in some high
health resort where pure and bracing
air and decent mode of living will
bring little coloring back to their
cheeks.
Women weaken than men! The
ideal woman is the toughest bit of
work Creation has produced.
Among the lower classes, what an
English servant maid can do is amaz-
ing! In Lancaster girls are miners.
Among the lower middle classes,
what barmaids, standing on their feet
fro ms in the morning till midnight,
and shop girls doing the same for
twelve hours, can go through in the
way of work is to me simply astound-
ing.
And If you want to realize what the
delicate women of the upper classes
can stand, read what they do, when
they return from their holiday, after
the season is over, and begin visiting
in the autumn.
| borrow the details from an account
of it given by Lady John Manners,
now the Duchess of Rutland, in the
National Review.
In well-appointed country houses,
before the ladies leave their bedrooms,
dainty little services of tea and bread
and butter are carried to them. Some,
however, prefer brandy and soda. For
titled by these refreshments, they
come down at ten o'clock and have
breakfast, -Four hot dishes, every sort
VI WIN HICdJS IHdI might llIly luInlSn
forth a feast, fruits, cakes, coffee, tea,
claIet, constitute satisfactory break
fast, often prolonged till within two
hours ana half of luncheon.
The important institution of lunch
con begins at 2. Again the table is
spread with many varieties of flesh
and fowl, hot and cold proofs of the
cooks ability, plain puddings for those
who study their health creations in
cream for those who have not yet de,
voted themselves to that never failing
source of interest,
Coffee is often served after lunch
which is usually over soon after 3. The
ladies gather around the tea at abou
5, generany showing much apprecia
ton of any little surprises in the wa!
of mullins, or tea cakes, provided b!
. thoughtful hostess.
When the gentlemen return from
shooting some will probably join tn,
ladies; perhaps few may like q lit