The Dolores star., 1902-12-12

and, incidentally, by those of other
families. The western man, as rule
broke away from the east when n boy,
struck tout for himself, got plenty OF
hard work and knocks. no petting to
speak of, aud did not grow up faucying
himself the only man on earth. He is
more deferentiai and chivalrous to wo-
men-perhaps because he knows her
less.
In the widest, toughest mining
camps of the far west woman who re-
spccts herself is respected by every
man, however bad his record in that
camp. This can not be said OF many
civilized towns of the east. Personally,
| have received more courtesy and
chivalrv in La Plata or Cripple Creek
than sometimes on Broadway. The
western man does not use profanity or
foul language before women. In many
eastern cities the woman passerby hears
frightful words from men in trains, on
boats, on street corners. Such an out
rage is unknown in the toughest west
ern communities.
The westerner does not leer into the
faces of women on the street He is not
waiting on corner for woman to
come up, only to follow and pass her
and grin odiously over his shoulder at
her. AZ a matter Of fact, Willie the
westerner is adorably audacious in
many respects, he is somewhat timid
where women are concerned, and
thrusts no unwelcome attention on any.
But on the other hand should woman
require assistance of any sort, no one is
more chivalrous in profferingit. With
a curious commingling of brusqueness
and timidity, the western man flies to
the aid of a woman in distress.
The writer was once travelling on n
local eastern train. a poor woman
passenger was 81 short of her fare. She
would have been put Off the train at
night had it not been for another wo-
man. Not man in the ear offered to
help her Had this incident occurred
on a western train every man in the
car would have flashed roll of bills
and told her to help herself.
Eastern and Western
Men Compared Physically.
The western man is often a maguifi
cent creature physically. He has wit,
address, polish, acumen, intelligence,
cynicism, many agreeable and fascinat-
ing qualities. But he lacks imagina-
ton and emotion. The man who lives
close to nature, who for days and
months, perhaps, may hear no voice
save hers; who tolls in deep, dark
canons and sleeps under the stars; who
delves at timber line and dreams above
the snow, has both. 70 him mother
earth whispers her dearest secrets; to
him the mountains speak.
The Broadway flaueur, the Mexican
ranchero; the Fifth avenue swell, the
Arizona ininer-what greater contrasts?
The one typifies over-ripe refinement,
the veneer of civilization; the other em-
bodies the primitive and strenuous
emotion of existence.
On Broadway, Fifth avenue, Beacon
street or Chestnut street, one may be-
hold most elegant men, pink or purple
checked, irreproachably groomed,
dressed in the perfection of taste, one
the replaca of the other-gray trousers,
frock coat, silk hat, white waistcoat,
colored shirt, tan gloves, gardeniaor
chrysanthemnm on lapel. These are
the flowers of eastern society, the very
pick of the whole bunch-languid,b bored
cynical, over-civilized, unpicturesque.
Compare with them the man who
comes flying over the range on his
Mexican mustang. He is alert, nerv-
Gus, cool, intrepid, reckless, devil-may-
care, picturesque. His ''chaps'' glisten
and jingle with silver; a lurid handker-
chief, loosely tied, reveals the brown
shapely throat; the brim of the great
sombrero flaps back from the tanned
forehead and the bold, expressive eyes.
He sits his animal like Centaur. In
every movement OF the 1.-THE body every
pose of the statuesque head there is ex-
pressed the joy of life, the intoxication
Of existence.
The westerner Is alive to his finger
tips; the easterner is blase and tired of