Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-06-25
ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN
Contrasting Characteristics Amusinglv
Related by Gail Hamilton Almost
Half Century Ago Apply
Today.

Various apt, incisive comments made
by Gail Hamilton almost half Il century
ago on Men and Women" are in most
respects equally full Of force today. with
all the Wanted progress woman has
made.
Men are strong; they do things, and
don't mind it, admits this vigorous wonl-
an writer. They can open doors in the
dampest weather. They can unstrap
trunks without breaking blood vessel,
turn keys in moment which women
have lost their tempers and famed their
fingers over for half an hour; look down
precipices and not be dizzy
You may strike them with all your might
on the chest and ii doesn't hurt them in
the least Il mean if you are a woman,
They never grow nervous and cry. They
go upstairs three at time. They put
one hand on a f0ur-rail fence and leap
1t without touching. In short, they do
everything easily which women try to do,
and cannot.
Moreover, continues this commenta-
tor, men are so easy TO get along with
They are conveniently blind and benevo-
lent. Women criticise you, not unjustly
perhaps, but relentlessly. They judge
you in detail, men only in the whole If
Your dress IS neat, well fitting and well
toned. men will not notice it, except ii.
few man-milliners and few others who
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hold up your head and speak when you
are spoken to, you can ',e very comforta-
bic. do not mean that men cannot and
do not appreciate female brilliancy, but
if you are good listener and in the right
receptive mood, you can spend an hour
very pleasantly without it.
But woman finds out in the FIRST
three minutes that the fringe on your
dress is not a match. In four she has
discovered that the silk of your sleeves
is frayed at the edge. In five that the
binding of the heel of your boot is worn
out by the sixth she has satisfactorily
ascertained what she suspected the first
moment she set her eyes on YOU that
you trimmed your bonnet yourself. The
seventh assures her that your collar is
only imitation; and when you part. at
the end OF ten minutes, she has calculat-
ed with tolerable accuracy the cost of
your dress. has leveled her mental eve
glass at all your innocent little subter-
fugeS and knows to dead certainty your
past history. present circumstances and
future prospects. Well, what harm if
she doesf None in particular. 1t is only
beng stretched on the rack a little while.
You have no reason to be ashamed and
You lie not ashamed. Your boots are
only beginning to be shabby and we all
know the transitory nature of galoon.
Your fringe is too dark but YOU ran
angels could do no more You trimmed
Your bonnet yourself and saved 81,
which was just what you intended to do.
l our lace is not real. according to the
cant of the sh0pkeepers. hut il is real
real cotton, real linen, real silk, or what
ever the material may he, and you never
pretended it was Honiton or point
But if men, in their strength and COM
age and independence. are enviable. men
IN ther gentieneSs are irresistible" CON
cludes the writer. You EXPECT gentle
ness in women. I; Is their attribute and
characteristic. You do not admire its
presence SO much as you depore or CON
deinn ITS absence. But manly tenderness
has a peculiar charm d and you
meet II eyerywhere-in the house and by
the wayslde, in city and country. andpr
broadcioth and hOmespun. You may
travel from one end of the country Ia
the other, and meet not only civility. hut
the most cordial and considerable kind
ness. 1ou may be as ugly as it is pos
slbie for virtue To he, and tired
and travel stained and stupid. arl
Your nelghbor of n day will show You
all the little attentions y0u could claim
from father or brother or husband
Women would better improve the
rights they have before going mad after
others they know not Of. If men will
be 50 good as TO do the law making. and
stock Jobbing. and bribing. and Quarre.-
lnE, and stump speaking, ] shall be great
~ obliged to them. Am | enilU.
>iastic over this involuntary outgushins
Of the stream Of Kindness which flows
- continually from men to usward: |
nave Il right to be. 4 nation Of men
loyal. not 10 grace beauty. magnifceuce,
but To womanhood. to the highest ina
pulses Of human nature. to the love ele-
ment Of the universe, is a thing TO be-
enthusiastic about"