The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-08

One tnlDE Is clear. IL WOIndn waits
newspaper fame. is she desires to have her
remarks quoted from Dan to Beersheba, and
to be applauded by
The Accusers all the editors, she
of the sssisteren." has only to say
sarcastic I h 4 ngs
about women in general and club-women In
particular. Even papers usually fair and
courteous, describe Mrs. Dickenson's most
savage structures as lawful truths" and
quote therl with unconcealed delight 1t
seems to indicate that the editors would say
that sort Of thing themselves, If they dared
Certainly. Mrs. Dickinson makes one re-
mark that a man would be either shot or
knocked Down for, when she sneers that
women ate expected TO be virtuous and
some OF them are" And what does the lady
mean by saying that their ideas Of truth are
very feminine? Truthfulness is a question
os race, net OF sex. The woman of New
England race is probably the most strictly
truthful creature on the face Of the globe
"a phenomenon that fascinates Howells
and exasperates Mark Twain Other women
land most men-have various standards
some OF them very slightly connected with
the little Ratchet Mrs. Dickenson's further
remarks about a lack of seriousness and
thoroughness and reliability are true enough
Of some women-not at all true of others.
Once more women are no more all alike
than men ere.
AS for the Chicago lady who Is reported
and applauded because she told the club
women that not a particle Of love is neces-
sary to happy marriage, one would think
she had been engaged by the dowagers to
lecture the young women into marrying es-
Establishments rather than men. Some Of
the unhappiest couples know" says she,
love each other deeply" Doubtless; peo-
pie who have not emotions enough to love,
have not enough to be unhappy. A stone
does not suffer at all.
THE mark OF rank In nature Is capacity
Cor pain"
But whils we are trying to adjust our
selves to these blasts from Denver and Chi
caso, comes hercer one from across the
water. Here our critics often tell US that
women are too oonser s'ative; that women
are born aristocrats. But the British critic
who walls that the American woman Is
destroying English society, says she is
Rrchical. He does not accuse her Of being
fast vulrar-indeed, the American woman
II not born that could come up to the Eng
iish smart set In those respects: no. she is
''anarchicas," which means that she is not
aristocratic and conservative enough, that
she calmly walks over the fences wherein
British society is preserved, as its pheasants
are: that she still has an American weak
ness for measuring men and women by their
manhood aud womanhood.
Tt Is trihe discouraging to hear OF so
many. shortcomings all at once, but one
point has been gained-the accusers have got
themselves well advertised.
What Lowell scornfuIly calls Science
peddiing with the names of things has
seldom had a finer disqualification than in
the Weather Bureau man
No Indian who tells us there is no
Summer. Indian summer, because,
forsooth, IL does not al
ways come at the same time, and does not
always exist all over the country at once.
Nobody ever imagined Indian summer to be
a fixed date, like a Solstice or an equinox.
II Is condition, not a theory Of the Wealth
er Bureau that confronts US in Indian sum-
mer. When the air is a still delight, golden
haze near at hand and purple mist in the
distance, warm and soft without touch OF
oppressive heat, cool and exhiIarating with
out breath OF rawness or chill, when every
breath of outdoors is unmixed delight, and
one clings grudgingly to every golden mo-
ment before the winter comes upon us-that
IS Indian summer, be the month Septem-
Der or October, November or December, and
why a mar should object to the name when
he admits the peculiar atmospheric condi-
tfon," the unscientiflc mind cannot UNDER
stand. But 1 suppose we are all inclined to
be exactins about the nomenclature Of any
science We are specially interested I'm. Per-
haps there is no firm reason TO be rendered
why the writer should be filled with indig-
nation at hearing the tulip-tree called
poplar. or the tulip-poplar." whereas in
reality II has no connection with the pop
lars. but belongs to the magnolia family:
nevertheless it strikes her as little short of
crime to can a tree with splendid great
liiy-Iize flower poplar, when poplars have
only eaterpillar-like ''pussies" for blossoms.
Perhaps the weather man had been driven
distracted by inquiries as to when Indian
summer comes, and so cut the knot by de-
claring that. like the lamented Mrs. Harris,
There ANT no SIGH a person.
One of the hardest things In the world Is
for person of equable temper to learn to
understand one OF the explosive sort. Many
a man has been driven per-
Dynamite fectly frantic because his
Tempers. wife kept calm when he was
in a earring rage Precisely
what he does want her to do under those
circumstances is a puzzle, but it certainly
is not case where a soft answer turneth
away wrath. But if the soft answer and
unruffsed deIaeanor are exasperating to him,
there is one thing that is far worse, and
that Is to laugh
Undoubtedly IL was a ridiculous thing for
the farmer TO start to shoot his hog de-
stroying a valuable piece OF property, be.
cause he was enraged al it's obstinacy, but
his wife should have known better than to
laugh. A sense OF humor is a saving quail
~ in ones self. never in the party of the
other part. She never had time to realize
that she had been playing with dynamite
for he shot her Instantly, and then, horror
stricken az what he had DONE turned the
gun on himself. All that frightfuI tragedy
In a moment, from a tit of temper and a
Taught And very probably he was not bad
or brutal. but warm-hearted and affection
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