The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-16
Man the Leaning Sex
+ oU supposed it was woman' So it is
generally supposed But il is cot.
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NOU supposed it was woman? So 1t is
generally supposed. But il is cot.
II is man, and this will be proved
10 YOU Next time you ride in a troll
ley car watch the trousered sex and
see how universally Ii leans There are
not enough seats 10 go around: OF
course not Men and women stand
But observe how men stand. IL is not
sufficient for a leaning man TO hang
Imply to a strap. His whole being
sinks into his feet. and il there were
anything lower than his feet he could
sink into he would do IL One knee Is
bent slumpy and advanced in front OF
the other. like the fore leg of a tired old
horse. That is one way you knox a
horse is old-if IL stretches one fore les
out in front of II and stands upon tho
other. Judged by this plain rule af
horse sense. man is always old.
Even the clinging to a strap by one
hand. one or both knees slumped and
crooked one foot advanced like the
fore leg Of an old horse-all this IL not
enough for a member OF the leaning
sex. II an angle or panel of the side OK
door of the car is near. his other arm.
long and isnky. sprawls across space
that he may clutch at this angle or
panel. OF anything that looks Ike a
support Or. IL by reason OF being,
built new fashioned the car has seats
across instead of lengthwise. the indi-,
vidual belonging 10 the leaning sex viii
hump his back against the corner OF
one OF these, knocking askew the broad
hats of all the women within reach.
Thus braced and shored up on all
sides. man is enabled to ride a few
blocks without going TO pieces. But all
the while he affords to synpathetic
woman spectacle of weakness and
brittle ruin such that. II the string
which holds him together should sud-
denly give way. as 1t were. his bones
would fall apart A noble ruin. may
hap. but ruin.
II in the lottery for seats man sue
ceeds in winning place. then the bum
die OF bones and tissue. loosely tied
up, Is deposited with much the same
appearance OF weakness and decay
Man sits not square and upright. but
slantingly upon the end of hts spine
that the pressure upon the great nerves
OF the trunk may be as uneven and
one sided as possible. thus insuring to
himself neuralgia and backache. has
tening the oncoming OF locomotor
ataxia-
Nay, the individual belonging to the
true leaning sex cannot even I'm a sit
ting posture hold his lower limbs tauf
and clipper shape. He must cross enc
leg ever upon the other that IL may
lean upon and be supported by its
mate. The foot OF the supported men,
Der swings loose and tumbly far eut
into the aisle. that ladies may wipe their
skirts upon IT, Man thus depends upon
woman 10 clean his shoes for him. that
too. upon her best frccks and for moth
ing. A spectacle to gods and men 10
is TO witness well dressed women dodge
right and left between twin rows of
mems upturned shoe solss. striving
vainly TO avoid getting the street auss
and CRIME therefrom upon their costly
garments And man. the leansr. site
in his huddled up heap doubled over
upon himself and complacenty watches
them do IL.
And, by the way, only yesterday did
not a man who was leading his pes
dog ION a string" faint and fan and
have to be carried into a drug store
when the beast had a At and a police
man shot it? Yea, verify. EpsE upon
the street corner. critieising wokh bis
Eates the ladies that pass by, man
leans against a lamp post when hs
walks away from il the leaning habit
is still SO strong on him that, in tbs
words of an observant German lady In
America:
He walks as though he was kneel.
ing into his knees"
The erect spine. standing or sitting
the trinity held shoulders. knee and hip
joint. the resulting strong. steady nerve
flow through ali parts of the animal
economy seem touch beyond man. the
leaning sex II nothing else Is handy
he Will lean against the side OF a
house. And how often does he not
depend on woman for his very bread?
How often does not man. the true
ieaner. hunt for a rich wife 10 bracs
him and support him?
ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER.