Newport daily independent., 1904-11-01
REGARDING MEN AND WOMEM
According to a Woman Writer Mem Are Loyal and Easy to Get
 Along With"

Along With"
 Various apt, incisive comments made by Gail Hamilton almost half century ago on Men and Women" are in most respects equally full of force to-day with all the vaunted progress woman has made, says the New York Tribune.
 Men are strong; they do things, and don't mind it," admits this vigorous woman writer. They can open doors in the dampest weather. They can un- strap trunks without breaking a blood vessel, turn keys in moment which lamed 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 1t doesn't hurt them in the least q mean if you are woman.) They never grow nervous and cry. They go upstairs three at time. They put one hand on four-rail fence and leap it without touching. In short, they do everything easily which women try to do and can not.
 Moreover" continues this commen- tator, linen are so easy to get along with They are conveniently blind and benevolent. Women criticise you, not unjustly, perhaps, but relentlessly. They judge you in detail, men only in the whole. If your dress is neat, we'll fitting and we'll toned, men will not mo- tice 1t, except few man-milliners and a few others who ought to be. If you will only sit still, hold up your head and speak when you are spoken to, you can be very comfortable. do not mean that men cannot and do not appreciate female brilliancy, but if your are a,good listener and in the right receptive mood you can spend an hour very pleasantly without it.
 "But a woman finds out in the first three minutes that the fringe on your dress is not match. In four she has discovered that the silk of your sleeves is frayed at the edge. Tn five that the binding of the heel of your boot is worn out. By the sixth she has satis- the first moment she set eyes on you,' that you trimmed your bonnet your self. The seventh assures her that your collar is only imitation;' and when you part, at the end of ten minutes, she has calculated with tolerable accuracy the cost of your dress, has leveled her men, tai glasses at all your innocent little subterfuges and knows to dead cer- tainty your past history, present cir cumstances and future prospects. We'll, what harm if she does? None in par ticular It is only being stretched on the rack little while. You have no req son to be ashamed. Your boots are only beginning to be shabby, and we all know the transitory nature of galloon. Your fringe is too dark, but you ransacked the city and did your best, angels could do no more.' You trimmed your bonnet yourself and saved two dollars, which was just what you intended to do. Your lace is not real, according to the cant of l the shopkeepers, but it is real-real cotton, real linen, real silk, or what ever the material may be, and you never pretended it was .Honiton or l point.
 'sBut if men, in their strength and courage and independence, are envfable, men in their gentleness are irresistible, '' concluded the writer. "You expect gen. tleness in women. It is their attribute and characteristic. You do not admire its presence so much as you deplore o1 condemn it's absence. But manly ten derness has peculiar charm
 and you meet it everywhere-in the house and by the wayside il city and country. under broad cloth and homespun. You may travel from one end of the country t the other, and meet not only civility but the most cordial and considerat' kindness. You may be as ugly as 1t fl
 possible for virtue to be, and tired ant travel-stained and stupid, and you neighbor of day will show you all tn little attentions you could claim from father or brother or husband.
 Women would better improve tn rights they have before going mad afte others they know not of. If men will b so good as to do the law making, an } stock jobbing, and bribing, and quarrel ing and stump speaking, shall be great ly obliged to them. Am l en
 thusiastic over this involuntary out ! gushing of the stream of kindness whic flows so continually from men to us ward? I have a right to be. A natio
 of men loyal, not to grace, beauty, mag
 nificence, but to womanhood, to tn highest impulses of human nature, to tn
 love element of the universe, is q thin
 to be enthusiastic about"
 Yas.