Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-09-04
WHAT DISTINGUISHED WRITERS
HAVE SAID ABOUT HER.
AMERICAN. GIRL DESCRIBED
KipIings Analysis of Her - Max
o'RelI's Formula for Her Compost.
tion-Women Who Do not Marry
And Much About Others of the
Sex.

female character; while others, under
the cloak of reform, or some form of
mental perturbation have seen fit to
smirch the fair name of womanhood.
Throughout it all woman simply looks
on and asks that they should be men,
nothing more, for it is only the manly
in man that can redeem the womanly
in woman.
Max O'Rell, Keller, Barley and
Maupassant are, perhaps, the greatest
Of women's authors, not the authors
for the woman of yesterday, today or
tomorrow, but the interpreters Of
woman, authors from whom women
can learn to understand themselves
as they gaze upon the reflection Of
their own images in the soul of man.
Then there is BjOrnson, who would
have women be intellectual, and b.
sen, who cries out for the seXIess
woman; Heyse, who, in his latter
years, would like to make woman into
apple dumblings with whipped cream,
and Tolstoi and Strindberg, who
would turn them into man-haters.
It was Rousseau who introduced
the worship of woman into literature,
and likewise her superiority and her
resemblance to man; and it was
Dumas who tried to make the world
blush 1t the mention Of the name Of
WOmad.
Max O'Rell has given the world sev-
oral analyses of woman; but the
cloverest and most profound study Of
woman occurs in the description Of
Nine. de Burne in MauDassant's
"Notrc Cmur."
Many writer's have attempted to de-
fine woman. Kipling called her, in
"The Vampire " "a rag and a bone and
a hank Of hair" but this has not been
accepted as the last word, says the
New York Tribune. Macterlinck is
rather nicer when he speaks of her
as thc only mystic" Meredith says
that, by virtue of her abundant hair
she is more of a vegetable than a
man.
Isobol Osbourne Strong, the step
daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson,
voiced one notion of womanhood at
tea given in her honor by Prof. Eugene
Lamb Richards, of Yale. She had
spoken of Mrs. Stevenson as about the
perfect woman. Some one asked If
she could write. mo" was tho reply
A fire Of questions developed the ad
mission that Mrs. Stevenson was not
peculiarly gifted in any artistic direc
ton, and that she had no great inter
est i'm charities or wOmen's clubs.
Just what is your mothers special
ty?" finally asked young tutors
wife ooh" replied Mrs. Strong, "she
can roll cigarettes and talk to mon"
Max O'Rell has given to the world
= prescription that comes high:
Take the hair of a Hindu,
Tho nose of a Greek,
The mouth of the English,
The complexion of German,
The height of a Norwegian,
The feet Of n Chinese woman,
The teeth of an African
The arm of Belgian,
The leg of an italian girl,
Tho eyes of a Spaniard,
The grace of a French woman
And Won will have an American
hnoutv
Nounoesan+ pivos rs non Dicture
or tho fin do steele woman in tbo fol
rovinc words. "Thov are q now race
or women with reasoning historical
ror,oe ovcited Inv n thousand contra.
dicto,,y orotions which ore hardly
,,,,rtl,,, If hoino roIIcd wishes. disan-
nofptol with life without HAVING
t,stod orvtbing ovinq IN loc1, of ev-
nn,ionro Void nr nossion void Of ,f
faction thov uritn tho tan,nor Of
sr,iIt chiIdron with tho d,I1Inees of
orod sI,ontfcs "
Doudot nicturos for tho world nc
tna ,nodol Of OIL wirolv ond ouoonIv
,.irt,,o. ,oro othor NO. tbo ov Ouoo,
~ N,rI,, who ec,,rod - bis novel
"pois ON Fvflo
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