Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-01

A contributor in The New York Herald, who
is well satisfied in his own theoretical mind
that he knows all about what he is writing but
who is probably very much mistaken from q
practical standpoint in everyday life, says:
one woman loves the other is loved;
One woman gives, the other receives;
One offers humbly a hfe's devotion.
The other 1eers at mans emotion;
One bravely treads a thorny way,
The other in paths of ease may stray;
One wakes while the other sleeps;
One laughs while the other weeps;
One lives for her love and nothing else.
The other
But why continue? The list is well-nigh end
less. and after all. this one differentiation in
cludes and explains all the others. The woman
with a heart says without thinking, ''All for
your The woman with head thinks without
When a woman is in love she is temporarily
insane and, according to her temperament, be-
HAYES like an fdolater, a fined angel
A woman idealist is In love all her life; al
ways with the same ideal, but represented by
different men. Love, spiritual and in the abb
stract, is her whole existence. She endows some
very ordinary man with all the godlike attri-
butes she can think of, places him on a
pedestal and makes him her idol. She knows
the feet are clay and Will remain clay until
the end Of time but she drapes them artistical-
~ and forgets that clay abounds. She kneels
reverently and bows her head in worship for
a long time
! pedestal is less conducive TO his enjoyment than
| cosy corner and when the woman looks
up 1t is to find that her idol has utilized his
clay feet to such good purpose that the pedes-
! tai is empty.
The type OF woman Is very rare, however.
and the ordinary woman loves only at inter
walls, IN more earthly way.
When a woman loves man violently and
wants to poison or physically damage every
other woman he speaks OF or to, It is because
she has demon Of jealousy within her that
inspires all kinds OF absurd outbreaks. She
will accuse him Of misdemeanors he never
dreamed OF: be suspicious OF his every thought
nag him TO desperation and wasting his time
and nnonopolizing his society, she will torment
him from Innocence into article and from arti-
Man loves bodily comfort and mental seren-
fty above everything else, and when woman
deprives him Of them he will run away the
first time she isn't looking and forget TO come
on the other hand. the love Of patient
Griseida" will bore him insufferably, and for
diversion he will sneak OF after some woman
less sanity and survile When a woman's de-
glories in blacbing his boots she need not be
surprised II he regards her simply as his boot
black, He may accept her services but he
The spirit that prompts such adoring service
is of the kind possessed by heroes ana mar
tyrs: it is of the kind that centuries ago.
made woman famous in the worlds history,
but in this twentieth century man ignores the
fact that the purer the gold the softer II Is,
and will not recognize the real worth of So
called soft woman.
likewise being self-sacrihcing, she may deny
herself pair of shoes TO get him a scarfpin he
has admired and will feel amply repaid IL he
rrrnts an approval and condescends to wear
H. but some day he win tell her she was
fool for not getting the Shoes instead.
This is the woman whose love Is "supremest
in adversely" but there is no present demand
All Of which goes to show that neither the
adoring saint, the jealous despot nor the
unselfish slave Is the type OF woman that q
man loves.
The more stupid woman Is, the more will
men laugh The more avaricious she is, the
more. they will bestow upon her. The more
she despises them the mOrS they adore her.
The more she insults them the mora they sue
for her favor. The more naughty she is the
more humble are they. The more she abuses
them the more they cringe.
It Is the woman who demands much and
gives little whom men love to distraction
they will cast loyal love, honor. wealth and
unblemished name into her lap and supercil-
llous smile of acknowledgment makes them
happy Lack Of understanding apprecia-
ton on her part makes them the more eager
10 impoverish themselves to enrich her.