Newport daily independent., 1904-12-13
REGARDING MEN AND WOMEN
According to a Woman Writer Men Are Loyal and Easy to Get
 Along With"

NaFIUuS dpl, luClSlNe COMMeutS Ill deIs 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 women have lost their tempers and lamed their fingers over for hxT an hour; look down precipices and not be dizzy. You may strike thsU with all your might on the chest. and t doesn't hurt them in the least q mesA if you are 8 Woman) They never grow nervous and cry. They go upstairs three at time. They p& one hand on four-rail fence and leap 1t without touching. In short, they do everything easily which women try to do and can- not.
 Moreover" continues this commen- tator. linen are so feasy to get along with They are conveniently blind and benevolent. Women criticise you, not uajustk, perhaps. but releMlessly. They judge you in detail, men only ih the whole. If your dress is neat, we'll" fitting and we'll toned, men will not no- lice 1t, except few man-milliners and . few others who ought to be. If yon will only sit still, hold up your head and speak when you are spoken to. yon can be very comfortable. I do not mean that men cannot and do not appreciate female brilliancy, but if your are good listener and in the right receptive mood you can spend an hour very pleasantly without it.
 "But 8 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 Is frayed at the edge. In five that the binding of the heel of your boot is worn out. By the sixth she has satfs- factorily ascertained what she suspected tho 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 haA calculated with tolerable accuracy tho cost of your dress, has leveled her men, , tai glasses at all your innocent little subterfuges and knows to a dead ee1- tainty your past history, present cir cumstances and future prospects. We'll. rho sp ticular. It is only being stretched on i 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 ! the shopkeepers, but 1t is real-reai cotton, real linen, real silk, or what
 ever the material may be, and yoH never pretended it was Honiton or point.
 "But if men, in their strength and courage and independence, are enviable, 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 tn. derness has . peculiar charm and you meet 1t everywhere-ini tho house and by the waysids tn city and country, under bread- cloth and homespun. Yoa may travel from one end of the country to the other, and meet not only civility but the most cordial and considerats kindness. You may be as ugly as 1t h possible for virtue to be, and tired and travel-stained and stupid, and your neighbor of . day will show you all ths little attentions you could claim from s father or brother or husband. Women would better improve the rights they have before going mad after others they know not of. If men will be 60 good as to do the law making, and stock jobbing, and bribing, and quarrel ing and stump speaking, shall be great ly obliged to them. Am I en- thusiastic over this involuntary out gushing of the stream of kindness which flows so continually from men to us ward? I 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 to be enthusiastic about"
 The Picture Hat.
 "I witnessed an amusing incident at one of the local theaters the other evening"" remarked the theater-goer "A woman, wearing large picture hat, was seated directly in front of an elderly man, who was straining his neck in an endeavor to see what was happening on the stage, and, of course, if waa Oulv DosSih1a for him fO SoA hut