Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

quent intervals will suffice. The effect is
produced; she weeps. she is happy!
Beat Only in Private.
"Beatings should only be administered In
private. never in public. Anticipated and
stupid instincts of chivalry lead to inter-
vention even when the spectator secretly
agrees that the chastisement Is friendly
philanthropfc and well-deserved. Thin
women should be beaten with a stick, AS
for those who only appear thin, the fist Is
recommended When 1t comes to a fat
woman the palm of the hand will do, In
short, a man must be careful not to hurt
himself"
Criticism and Approval.
AS was only to be expected, these highly
cynf cal and advanced views have raised a
cyci,'ne of protest or acauiesence, as the
case may be. One correspondent. who is
puzzled to know whether the propagandist
of wife beating as a fine art is to be taken
seriously or only as joker denounces his
statements as gigantic impudence. An
other writes: Il am enchanted-as a woman
and the wife of a superior man with an
admirable dispositiOn-with the theory
the art of wife beating. The man who pro-
pounded it must know US women marvel
ously well, and even read In us character
1stics of which We ourselves have been
ignorant. The situation of little wife
WIN iONeS d HuSDdiiQ superior 10 HST Dotu
in the matter of intelligence and dispo-
sition Is most difficult. He does not seem
to recognize the fact that 1 have my
nerves. When 1 say disagreeabe things
to him because of my nerves, he assumes
an air of superior goodness that is the most
aggravating thing in the world. His re-
Spouse to the wild things l am weak
enough to say to him consists of calm. just
and generous words, or he even goes out,
leaving me alone with my fury unclaimed.
1 should prefer blows a thousand times.
his anger rather than his contemptuous
pity. / feel that / shall love him all the
more the day he may be weak enough to
chastise me. keep me in order and literally
force me to subdue my nerves.
An Advocate of Husband Beating.
Another correspondent is less iudulgent:
THE prospect of marriage as a condition
of perpetual pugilism is not enticing, for in
these days were man to strike a woman
what would she be doing all the time? Her
return blows might prove equally muscular.
l propose the art of husband beating by
way of retaliation. There are muscular
wives united to puny husbands; let them
avenge those weak women neither strong
enough nor we'll trained enough to retaliate
Masculine jealousy is not less laughable
less exasperating than our own, and an
irrttattngiy Jealous husband deserves to be
thraShed quite as much as, in fact more
than-but what am / saying? We women
uO uOt ueeV W lulIlCt COTpOIdl
We have our own way of making an exas-
perating husband regret his nervousness,
and it beats the whip or a heavy hand"'
A Mans View.
A man writes to protest against the
author OF The Art of Wife Beating" be-
traying a professional secret. and recounts
an anecdote Of the magical effect on an In
sanely jealous woman Of a well-directed.
IL brutal, wrench Of the wrist Of hand
raised to strike. She had accused her lord
and master Of flirting with one of her
friends at dance; he had denied the allie
cation, she had persisted. she had even
scratched him In their carriage going home.
and there was nothing left for him to do"
but to bring her to her senses by the cold
douche OF physical violence! Such is the
art of wife beating as propagated in Paris
in contradistinction to the District of CO.
lumbia and the United States of America;
not, however, without more protest than
acquiescence from the Parisians themselves
still unprepared for the new movement Of
masculine muscles. LORGNETTE.