The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
DOES NOT LIKE men
5 MARIE coRELLI CALLS THEM
NAMES
Women Are to Be Pitied and All Their
Troubles Date From the Day That
Coward Adam Said, "The Woman
Tempted Me"

IF we follow the few newspaper In
terviews which Marie Corellf has kind
ly given to the public we find that she
seems firmly opposed to masculinity.
, Surely if she had her way lamenta-
tiens would be sung every time man
is born into the world. She attributes
all the troubles of the universe, not to
! .tve's little affair with an apple, but to-
the action of Coward Adam, as she
calls him. She dwells upon the ex-
IRENE cowardice of the gentleman in
question, and says that following the
precedent he established men ever
since have hidden behind a woman's
petticoats. That literally, of course,
Adam could not do, but he found an
excuse, THE woman tempted me-" and
it has served very we'll since to ex-
plain many strange things. Miss CO.
relli seems to think that women are
very much to be pitied and have a
hard time of it. She ought to come
over here for while and perhaps she
might change her opinion. Women
here have things pretty much their
own way. If married, they are queens
of their home; if unmarried many of
them are independent and very con-
tented.
If they do not literally run the
country they think they do, and that
is almost as good. They run the men
who manage affairs and it amounts to
the same thing.
What masculinity in general has
done to Marie CorelIi is not stated, but
that she has grudge against the
other sex is certain. And when Marie
has a grudge she can state it in round
terms that makes the blood run cold.
For Marie knows invectfve and her
vocabulary is well nigh inexhaustible.
She calls poor man all the picturesque
names that a SpinSter can use with I'M
punity, and every man who happens to
read her diatribe will Immediately
shrivel up into nothing. It is terri
BILE thing to incur the enmity of
woman with a vocabulary and chance
of publication. Like Mr.. Weggs in
'Our Mutual Friend all print is open
to Marie. She has a public and it de-
YOURS everything she writes, therefore
she is in a position to do man a great
deal of harm. Even the various wOrn-
ems pages in the papers, which Will
undoubtedly come to the rescue, cam
not do very much to rehabilitate' his
position. To be sure there has been
q man here and there who has declared
against women, and said things that no
one with a mother would say, but it
must be put to their credit that there
have been few men in literature who
have used or misused their ability in
tlta writing line by abusing their sis
ters. Men are too sensible of all they
owe to committeeman of which
goes without saying-to be guilty in a
like manner.
After all, women do not have such
very hard time. Marie to the contrary.
Men largely bear the heat and burden
of the day, and it is the occasional
woman who suffers injustice. Men are
not banded together to down women,
nor do they hold them in the contempt
that one is led to believe by perusal
of the words of the soured Marie. In
deed in this land of the free, it is
woman who has the center of the stage
and what she says and thinks is of SUI
preme Importance. If Marie wishes to
see man in his proper place, the back
ground, she should come over here and
attend one Of the annual meetings OF
the federated clubs. There she will
discover the true value of things and
why American women cannot join her
in any grievance against one of the
most important institutions in the
world; namely, man.