New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-15
WOMEN AND COMMON SENSE.
a Writer Says It's the Rarest Combination
in the World

The rarest combination in this world is women
and common sense. Women Of ability, OF talent,
Of genius even. plentiful as blackherries, but
the who has the supreme endowment OF a
calm and logical mind. and who can see subject
just it is. without prejudice passion or fear. Is
as scarce almost frost in June. says writer in
The Daily Picayune.
Not oniv do women seldom have any common
sense. but they d. desire TO have any II is
not a virtue that appeals to them. and it discon-
certs them when anybody calls on them 10 meet
situation with reason instead Of Mysteries II
comes b. nature to them be sef-Sacrifcing. ten
De- to s'he NOR gnjgS d the tn nsT5eT 5S5
only needing good. hard common sens" to deal with
yet the need Of the world is for common sense.
II is Uuromanticaly true that half Of the TRACE
dies Of life, and most OF The troubles We make for
ourselves because W persist in looklnS AZ Things
from every point Of view except the practical one.
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night - life knocks som. sort ~ common sense
from the sheltered nook Of their firesides.
hlandy continue 10 look out upon a life OF theories
.Tradtioa and custom alike have conspred 70
granted thar tncy vii hc Illogical and unreason-
arle. AND thar They Nil burst into tears ana
esr. n 5e o T t5e E Rs4 aad s Women ny snr6nr
thought artistic. intellectual. poetic aesthetic bur
aonan % be sensible They look upon her win
5sf rear .or.fs Ind v" ba the nerve 10 re-
f-se 20 be held up by professional beggars. They
feel that there ie something unnatural and uncanny
about her She be all right. but she's peculiar,
To this inability Ia look At things from pracu-
for borroUirC trouble She never waits Tor sorrow
% come her. She goes forth to look it 10. and
{ s. she doesn't have amy OF her she assumes
% her FRIENDS. Above all. STE anticipates. II
would suf-i IL they were iil. while her boys I'm
Ttrl'6aDOutS she begins worrying over the dangers
Of college life. while her girls still babies she
is miserable. thinking how Uakiud their possible
husbands may se u them. IN Nj DiXon's new
novel no tells about man who had carved over
the mantel in the library this sentence: I am old
aud I have had much trouble. but most Of IL never
happened No wOuIg have adopted
that for her motto. and she couldn't have lived up
10 n Il sh7 had She has plenty OF trouble and the
troubles that never happened troubled her more
than the ones that old
THE folly n making love the whole feast OF
life instead q merely Il side dish is another femI-
misfortune that the direct result OF womans
he loved perfectly the two supreme happinesses
that bestOw upon but because one
misses either one or these good things or both. ~
no more reason for making ones self miserable
than Il is starye 10 death because one can't ar
ford terrapin and champagne. Without doubt. one
hut ono may dine comfortably roast beef and
beer and even tea and toast not 70 be desplsed
= al get nothing else.
There is much in life besides loTe-So many
interests and anJecrneuts much WoTk 10 90 50
many rewards 10 rain-that II seems incredible that
z could let the mere TACT mat she was
overlooked by men wreck her happiness. YET no"
many bitter and old maids have We known.
who might have found soace. one "ould nave
fhoyrhr I'm merely contemplating their married
friends domestic infelicites and rejecting that II
az least. better 10 be lonely thah II was 10 De
hvildozed