Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Wife Beating Advocated
BY French Philosopher

Coincident with the agitation in this
country over the punishment to be in
ficted on chronic or periodical wife beaters
there is being published In Paris series of
eminently up-to-date reflections on The
Art and the Necessity of Beating. Women.
The witty and advanced author of these
papers after taking for his text a quotation
from Moliere, You are going among
women; take along your whip, proceeds
to make the extraordinary statement that
IL those men who beat women do not con-
fess to the fact it is through false shame"
and that although woman herself in her
character of eternal dissembler uniformly
exclaims. Lay your hands on me! I
should like to see the man, she is apt to
add in the same breath. But there is one
woman of my acquaintance whom a good
| sound thrashing would do a world of good
Do Women Want to Be BeatenP
LET us cast aside such hypocrisy" says
the apostle of woman beating, land go
boldly forth In search of psychological
| truths unknown to Paul Bourgeois noble
heroines. Women secretly desire to be
beaten; they do not confess it; they may
even be ignorant of it. but they long for
blows! What woman worthy of the glorf-
Gus name and sex does not experience those
| thanks to which we men realize the value
of a peaceful life? What woman does
not make scene now and then? Now
the woman who makes scene secretly
longs to be whipped! With all her might
she seeks some word that will put a man
beside himself: cause him to lose his de-
testable sang-froid; in short, bring about
the desirable explosion, and, facing her,
white with restrained anger, expanding
useless strength in the vain effort to con-
troll himself. big BOBBY of a civilized man
continues to keep his fist in his pocket IN
stead of striking out with 1t on the dell
cate surface of the convulsed countenance
extended toward him. If the woman Is
more intelligent than the man with whom
she is associated she will suf1er from the
abnormal superiority of her position; she
will be happy that the man through the
opportune employment of his fist proves
| to her that there rs. at least. one SD
periority that remains his own Thus the
equilibrium Of the household Will be re,
established But If the woman Is stupid
she will necessarily provoke the man IN
| telligence to an unequal struggle IN Which
she will triumph, for when 1t comes 10
question between an Intelligent man ana
| foolish woman it Is invariably the woman
who carries off the day In fact, since to her
mind words possess only the narrow sense
that her passion supplies, she understands
nothing, she will never recognize the SUI
neriority of man through some spontane-
| Gus act of her intelligence. Let him then
make her understand that he Is the stronger
through her flesh since 1t is the only sensi,
| BILE part Of her composition. Woman Will
doubtless comprehend some day that the
man who beats her gives her the greatest
proof of love.
Public Opinion.
Public opinion. queen OF the world.
una nimously condemns the man who strikes
one weaker than himself. Nietzsche says
that It is the weak who have occupied
| themselves in creating this opinion so favor
able to themselves and that they have sue
ceeded There is a veritable moral beauty.
| a victory over self, about the man who
beats a woman. precisely because In doing
| SO he incurs no danger and will not be
recompensed by that vain glory which re-
wards so-called brilliant achievements.
perceive the triumph Of civilization in the
| impassive man who strikes without anger
| and only with reason;l there Is all the dif-
| ference between him and mere brute that
! exists between a clumsy assassin and the
| skillful surgeon who uses the steel in order
| to cure-one well-directed blow at infre-