The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-19
LIVELY MRS. BLAKE
BREAKS FORTH AGAIN
Calls Men Names at Recent
Club Meeting in New
York

Life would certainly be a dull enough
affair if some one did not, once in q
while, say something original or give
utterance to opinions out of the beaten
track. Such a benefactor to her race is
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, who has
made her way to fame on this page
heretofore and whose somewhat orig
inal manner of looking at things has
added to the gayety or nations before
now. 1t was only the other day that
she cast doubt upon the original ap-
pie and hazarded guess that, per-
chance, it was ounce which occa-
stoned all the trouble since experienced
by mankind. Now she has broken out
again, and declared that it is the wives
of the country who. have made their
husbands, pushed them ahead and If
they make anything of themselves, it
is entirely due to aforesaid wives.
Now this statement on the part of
Mrs. Blake is not quite so startling, nor
SO original, as others she has been
known to make, but it may come with
shock to some men who have been un-
der the impression that the facts were
exactly the other way. But the truth is
with the lady in question this time. for
man is almost always made or married
by his wife. A woman other than Mrs.
B. arose at the same meeting at which
the latter held forth and announced
that man often 'helps his wife to
total mental destruction" which was
very severe saying and reused much
discussion among some of the less rad
ical sisters. 1t really goes hard with
many a married woman to make her
Golf n oov~fxv To- t,oJo -
masculinity. The loyal wife, even when
extreme in her views, would much rath-
er some widow, or spinster, should say
the severest things. She may listen and
applaud in her heart, but there is
sort of outward-and many times in
ward and sincere-loyalty about the
married woman which prevents her
from joining in the TRADES we some
times hear against the injustice of this
world for women. I, for one, cannot
see that injustice exactly, and think
that women have a pretty good time.
married or single, but perhaps If
could "sit under Sister Blake once in
a while / should find out that really
am not having good time at all. but
suffering fearfully by the cruel hand Of
man. *
But this mental destruction" charge
is a. serious one and the sisters who
were present when the statement was
made realized it. The woman who said
these things went on to arraign man for
his SelfiShnesS and other horrible traits.
but she was not as enthusiastically ap-
plauded as she supposed she would be.
The woman who is going into the BUSH
ness Of abusing men should never
marry one, or she is open to the charge
of inconsistency, which might be
brought against Sister Gilman, who
had a series of husbands
But there are many strange things
and we cannot all be consistent. In
deed it is a well known fact that the
best papers ever read at the mothers
congress were written by spinsters.
There is nothing a all queer about this,
for spinsters have more time to think
and formulate theories on all subjects,
while the mother of, let us say, five
boys has no theories worth. speaking
of. Nothing knocks out theories like
boys If they ever did anything twice
the same way, if there was, even the
smallest thing about them upon which
to hang theory, the case might be diff
ferent But they are absolutely a law
unto themselves and it is the only law
they respect. Ask the mother of the
five boys after she has done her best
and launched them in the world, what
her theories are upon the subject of
bringing up children, and she will be
strangely quiet. Often she has not a
word to say. But ask a club member
who never had any children and she
will be voluble on the subject.
But Mrs. Blake says, my dear sirs,
that you are made by your wives. Is
| there any man brave enough to deny it ?