Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-06-24
REGARDING MEN AND WOMEN
According to a Woman Writer Men
Are Loyal and easy to Get
Along With

| 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 Wanted progress woman
has made, says the New York Tribune
e-Men. are strong; they do things, and
| 1on't mind it." admits this vigorous
woman writer. 'SThey can open doors
IN the dampest weather. They can un-'
strap trunks without breaking q bleed
-, turn keys in a moment wnIcn
women have lost their tempers and
aned their fingers over for half an
! hour; look down precipices 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
I 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 it without
touching. In short, they DO everything
easily which women try to do and can
not.
Moreover" continues this common
tator, men 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 well 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
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 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 salts
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 timitation;' and when you
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 a dead GER |
tainty your past history, present cir |
cumstances and future prospects. Well, |
what harm if she does? None in par |
ticular. 1t is only being stretched on |
the rack little while. You have no rea- |
son to be ashamed. Your boots are only |
beginning to be shabby, and we all know |
he fran (,fc
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 it is reai-real |
cotton. real linen, real silk, or what
ever the material may be, and you
never pretended It was Honiton or
point.
''But if me1n 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 its absence. But manly ten
derness has a peculiar charm
and you meet it everywhere-in the
house and by tAe 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 a day will show you all the
little attentions you could claim from
father or brother or husband
Women would better improve the
rights they have before going mad after
others they know not of. Ifmen will be
SO good as to do the law making, and
stock jobbing and bribing, and quarrel
" Obliged to them. Am I en-
thusiastic oyer this involuntary out
gushing of the stream of kindness which
flows so continually from men to US
ward? I have a right to be- A nation
of men loyal. not to grace, beauty, mag
nif1cence, but to womanhood. to the
highest impulses of human nature, to the
love element of the universe, is thing
to be enthusiastic about
For Purifying Air.
Pure breathing air can now be main
tanned in a small closed space by the
of distributor, which, by the action of
drops sodium peroxide into
water at regular intervals, a cubical
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