Newport weekly independent., 1904-12-30
MEN AND WOMEN
According to Woman Writer Men Are Loyal and ''Easy to Get
 Along With"

Along With"
 Various apt, incisive comments made
 by Gail Hamilton almost half century 1 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 Hn- 1 strap trunks without breaking blood vessel, turn keys in moment which
 women have lost their tempers and lamed their fingers over for half an 1 hour; look down precfpices and not be | dizzy. 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 woman.) They never grow
 nervous and cry They go upstairs three at a time. They put one hand on four-rail fence and leap 1t without touching. In short, they do everything easily which women try to do and can- 1 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 no- tice it, except few man-milliners and
 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 1 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 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. In five that the binding of the heel of your boot Is worn out By the sixth she has satis- i factorily ascertained what she suspected
 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 1 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. Well, 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 oi 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 point.
 "But if men, in their strength and courage and independence, are enyiable,
 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 or condemn it's absence But manly ten derness has a peculiar charm :. and you meet it everywhere-in the house and by the wayside in city and country, under broad cloth and homespun. You may travel from one end of the country to the other, and meet not only civility, but the most cordial and considerate
 kindness. You may be as ugly as it is
 possible for virtue to be, and tired and travel-stained and stupid, and your
 neighbor of day will show you all the little attentions you could claim from 1 father or brother or husband. |. 1 Women -vould better improve the
 rights they have before going mad after others they know not of. If men will be 1 SO good as to do the law making, and stock jobbing, and bribing, and quarrel 1 ing and~stump speaking, l shall be great | ly obliged to them Am I en-
 thusiastic over this involuntary out i gushing of the stream of kindness which
 flows so continually from men to us-
 ward? have right to be. A nation
 of men loyal, not to grace, beauty, mag
 nificence, but to womanhood, to the highest impulses of human nature, to the
 love element of the universe, is thing 1 to be enthusiastic about"
 The Picture Hat