The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-11
CONCERNING MEN AND WOMEN.
Men Easy to Get Along With'-Theil
 Loyalty to Womanhood.

Men Easy to Get Along Win -Inelr Loyalty to Womanhood.
 Various apt, incisive comments made
 by Gail Hamilton almost half a century
 ago on "Men and Women are in most respects equally full of force to-day, with all the vaunted progress woman has made.
 Men are strong; they do things and don't mind it." admits this vigorous woman writer. They can open doors in the darnpest weather. They can uT- strao trunks without breaking a 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. i# You may strike them with all your might on the chest, and it
 doesn't hurt them in the least q mean if you are a woman). They never grow nervous and cry. They go upstairs three at time. They put one hand on a four rail fence and leap it without touching. In short, they do everything easily which women. try to do and cannot. Moreover, continues this commenta- tor, linen are so easy to get along with They are conveniently blind and benevolent Women criticise you, not lunjustly, perhaps, but relentlessly. They judge you in detail, men only in the
 while. If your dress is neat, well fitting and well toned. men will not notice 1t,
 except a few man-m -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. I do not mean men cannot and do not appreciate fe- male brilliancy. but if you are a good listeners 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 a match. In four she has discovered that the silk of your sleeves 1 is grayed at the edge. Tn five that the binding of the heel of your boot is worn out. By the sixth she has satisfactori- | ly ascertained, what she suspected the srst moment she set her eyes on you, 1 that you trimmed your bonnet yourelf. The seventh assures her that your col- lar 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 levelled her men, 1 tai eyegIass at all your innocent little subterfuges and know to dead cer- tainty your past history. present cir cumstances and future prospects. Well, ] what harm if she does? None in partic-
 ular. It is only being stretched on the 1 rack little while. You have no reason | to be ashamed and you are not ashan- ed. Your boots are only beginning to l be shabby, and we all know the trarlsi- l tory nature of galloon. Your fringe is l too dark. but you ransacked the city | and did your best. angels could do nc more You trimmed your bonnet your- sels and saved two dollars, which was ! just what you intended to do. Your lace ! is not real, according to the cant oi | the shopkeepers, but it is real-real cot | ton, real linen, real silk. or whatever l the material may be, and you never pre- | tended it was Honitou or point.
 ''But is men, in their strength anC courage and independence, are envlable men in their gentleness are irristible,
 concludes the writer. You expect gen