The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-15
THE NoNPAREJL HAN

THE NONPAREJL HAN
Why Man Has Reason on His Side in
"HoIlering Good and Loud" When He
Has Pain and In Demanding the
Center Of the Family stage-Experi-
ments That Show That Woman Is
Only About one-half as Sensitive TO !
Pain as the More Deicately Built Man
-oId Ideas Exploded Again. II
Have you-a coarse, rude man-ever
felt ashamed because pain hurt you so +
much more than it did some delicate
woman, and because you hollered so much
more over it and demanded the entire #
center Of the family stage while 1t was d
going on?
II you have your feeling of shame was
entirely unnecessary and uncalled for.
This pain did hurt you worse and was a
much more serious affair than it would
have been had it been located on your
wife or on any of her female relations.
The reason? We will give it.
A European scientist of distinction has
been making careful experiments in this
direction, and after a large number of
tests at the top of the fore finger he has
come to the conclusion that women are
not more than half as sensitive to pain
as men are. This accounts for the howl
ing and grooming to which men are given
when anything is the matter with them.
It is reasonable. ..s- b
The instrument for measuring pain tells
the truth. Women are not suffering il
silence the torture they were supposed to
keep to themselves Credit is not to be
given for the long-suffering formerly sup
posed to be a part Of their very nature. .
On the other hand, when men are with
INC
seems to women mere nothing at all, COM
passion and sympathy will henceforth be
extended to them, knowing their delicate
senslb1l1ty to pain and the real amount
they suffer as recorded by the truth-tell-r
ing instrument
1t begins to look as if down-trodden
man, when he has a pain somewhere, will
at last receive the attention he deserves
and requires. 81
The British National Association for the
Suppression of Bad Language, In its an
nual report, announces the preparation Of
a dictionary "of harmless words which
may be used to take the place Of profane
language when the exigencies Of the sit
uation demand it, This will be a valu-
able wade mecum, but it will be rather
hard on father when he pounds his thumb
to have to rush into the library and con-
suit the dictionary to see what he may
National association.
We have a terrible fear-one that is
corroding our young life; it is that Pres
| ident Hearst will never live to take his
| seat. He smokes willy-killers!
| Rotation of crops may be all right, but
| what our upper forty needs about the
| time it Is Towering out is a rotation of
dog; say about 200 dogs per day being
rotated over the stump fence.
| The 18th of January. That means that
winter IS just dragging along on bottom.
Our coal bin is beginning to look like a.
| fried egg. And as to burning ashes, we
have always been opposed to that.
According to dispatch from Kansas,
City, ex-Mayor Frazier, Of Moorhead is
suing for divorce because his wife grea tly5
| Inundated him when he was running for:
! mayor. During his campaign the mayor.
was compelled to be out late. He says:
| Several times when I came home 1
found that my wife had locked all the
doors and windows. On such occasions
I was compelled to crawl thru a small
window leading into the cellar. Ny wife
would be waiting for me at the top of
the stairs and would say sneeringly :,
He! her '.''-
If she had merely said cha, ha,'' it
wouldn't have been SO bad, but 'he, he.
we'll, the ex-mayor ought to get his di.
vorce. 1t is unbearable
| : Why Smith Left Hon1e.''-The Litch-3
Vile, N. D.. Bulletin sorrowfully chroniI
cles the troubles of, Commissioner Smith
Of the third district The commissioner
feeling very chesty and prominent, was
sitting in the Northern Pacific depot. A
woman with three children sat on the
opposite side of the room from Commits
sioner Smith. Finally little 3-year- old
child observed the sedate member Of the
county board. and came toddling across
the ROOM. calling out: Papa! Papai''
Smith tried to shrink out Of sight int
his overcoat. but it was several sizes toe
small for concealment. Then he looked
wildly for the door, but a mob Of grinning
humanity blocked the way. Then he put
on a prodigious and threatening frown,
But he couldn't faze that kid. He was
there to love his papa, and Smith served
every practical purpose. He tried tc
crawl into Smiths lap, all the time COO
ing papa papa" at the nard-hearte1
man who was trying to push the baby off
and rolling his. eyes for help in the direcl
ton of the mother. And she looked read &
to drop thru the floor So did Smith. Thd
baby craWled all over Smith, mussed his
mustache, pulled his hair, rode a-straddla
Of Smiths foot and otherwise made him /
self scandalously familiar with the gen1
| llclflitu from CQe tnlTC O1SIrlCL. Ina
mother came to carry baby Oft, but shd
was unable to get possession. altho Smith
aided and abetted her to the extent OF
his failing strength.
All day regular reception was held
at the courthouse by Mr.. Smith, receiving
his inquiring friends, who came to conf
dole and synpathize. Several boxes of Gil
gars burned in commemoration of tho
event and 1t is intirnated his many friends
up at his home near Hope are preparing
to welcome him home fittingly. Dealins
, with this tale Of hardship and sorrowl
Editor Wells whoops her UP joyously ad
. above to the extent Of a column Of cold
type. Ills harsh.
One of the most interesting papers be !
! fore the veterinarians was DR.. Gould s
treatment of THE Gubernacelum Tests in
Cryptorchids.'' while Mr.. Christensen 4
sublime consideration Of "Abscess of thu
Anterior Mediastinum'' just held the au
dienee enthralled and brought out a
!; burst of rapturous applause. Life Is in1
:, deed worth living when we know all about
, Mediastinumh abscess.
A writer in Harpers RaZar claims thai
a Frenchman loses twenty-four hours OF
each week in politeness Of the Alphonse-
, CASTOR type. And you know what hap
, pened to them.
The other day in giving new subscriber,