The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-01
RE- ARDiN G MEN AND WOMEN
According to a Woman Writer Mer
Are Loyal and easy to Get
Along WITH

4c@ Are Loyal and Easy to Get .,.5
. Along With M. ssz.s
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.
"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 blood
vessel, turn keys in a moment which
women have lost their ~tempers and
famed their fingers over fer 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 Il mean
if you are woman.) They never grow
nervous and cry. They go upstairs
three at time. They put one hand
on four-rail fence and leap it without
touching. In short, they do everything
easily which women try to Go 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. do not mean
that men cannot and do not appreciate
female brilliancy, but if your are a good
listenerSand in the right receptive mood
you can.spend an hour very pleasantly
withoutIit.
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
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 'imitation;' and when you
part, at the end of ten minutes, she has
calculated with tolerabIe accuracy the
cost of your dress, has leveled her men,
tai glasses at all your innocent little
subterfuges and knows to dead GER
tainty your past history, present cir
cumstances and future prospects. Well.
what harm if she does? None in par
ticulara It is only being stretched on
the rack little while. Youhave no rea-
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 ransacke6
the city and did your best, angels could
do no more You trimmed your bonnet
yourself and saved two dollars, which
sjust what you intended to do You,
lace is not real, according to the cant OF
the shopkeepers, but it is real-rea]
cotton, real linen, real silk, or what
ever the material may be, and you
never pretended it was Honiton OF
"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. 1t is their attribute
and characteristic. You do not admire
it's presence so much as you deplore OF
condemn it's absence. But manly ten
derness has peculiar charm > :.
and you meet it everywhere-in the
house. and by the wayside il
city and country. under broad
cloth and homespun. You may
travel from one end of the country tc.
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
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
so 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 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"