The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08
men ARE REVENGEFUL
THEY WANT TO GET EVEN WITH
AN ENEMY
The Good Points of women Are Emu
merated and the Faults of Men Made
PIain-Story of an Old, Old Man Who
Had Trouble With His Stepson

Lest some persons imagine that this
page is conducted for the purpose of
throwing bouquets at the masculine con-
tingent and informing women that they
are full of faults, l am going to reverse
the order and congratulate my sisters
upon being themselves. Women really
have some good points and it is about
time we brought them out and COM
mented upon them. They have intui-
ton, which is much better than the in
telligence and reason of which men
make so loud a boast. Another thing
In which women-in the bullx-are SUI
perior to men, is in not harboring re-
sentiment or plotting revenge. 1t seems
20 be a masculine trait to get even"
with some one who has wronged
man, or some one a man fancies has
Nronged him. (That last sentence
seems somewhat involved but the sub
Feet is a complicated one, remember.)
Women sometimes forgive and forget
an injury, men seldom, unless they are
angels and ripe for heaven. When they
are the latter it is too late for revenge
and then they are not very often the
latter, anyway.
When woman gets over a misun-
QGcSIdnOlnS she Is really ONCl II anu
willing to forget She does not carry
her enmity to such lengths as man.
Men are like Indians in never forget
ting a wrong. One would suppose
when a man is old and softened by
years, that he would become forgiving.
But a story l heard the other day is
case in point and shows how relent-
less even an old man can be when he
g This lives far
never mind where-and he has a step
son with whom it seemed Impossible
for him to get along, and their relations
finally became SO strained that 1t
amounted to a family scandal and was
much talked about in the town where
they lived. 1t finally came out that
the stepSon owed his stepfather some
money This ranked terribly, as the
young man would not pay it. He
thought if he could take something
belonging to the young man he would,
in a measure, be justified. The only
thing he could think of was tomb
stone that the Stepson had had put
over the grave of his grandmother, SO
the enraged old gentleman went to the
cemetery and took it away! Fancy
woman doing such thing! She never
would. In high glee the old man took
the stone and hid it, whereupon the
stepson had him arrested and taken to
court, but when the matter was eX-
planned to the judge he threw up his
hands and gave up the case. He was
uncertain whether it was highway
robbery, disorderly conduct or bur-
glary Nobody knew what it was and
only the stepson was sure terrible
crime had been committed.
Now this is a dreadful example of
the masculine desire for revenge.
Would any woman-even a mother-in-
law-be guilty of doing what that step
father did? Certainly not Women are
not given to playing practical jokes
on each other they do not allow the
sun to go down on their wrath and
they are altogether and in every way
a superior race of beings.
Now, if there is any one who thinks
that this page leans toward the sterner
sex, let him read the above declaration
of independence. or platform, as they
say in conventions-and conventions
are the order of the -day-and apollo
sgize. Apologies must be in writing
and be in before the end of the year.
Now, if we could only have little
rain