Newport daily independent., 1905-03-23
REGARDING MEN AND WOMEN
Are Loyal and Easy to Get Along With"

Various apt, incisive comments made by Gail Hamilton almost half century ago on "Men and Women" are in most respects equally full of force to-day. with all the vaunted 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 a blood vessel, turn keys in a moment which women have lost their tempers and lamed 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 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 1t without touching. In short, they do everything easily which women try to do and can- not.
 Moreover" continues this common. tator, linen 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 ih the whole. If your dress is neat, we'll fitting and we'll toned, men will not no- tice 1t, 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 aro 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 listener and in the right receptive mood you can spend an hour very pleasantly without it.
 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 satis- 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 tolerable accuracy the cost of your dress, has leveled her men, tai glasses at all your innocent little subterfuges and knows to dead cer- tainty your past history, present cir. cumstances and future prospects We'll, what harm if she does? None In par ticular. It is only being stretched on the rack a little while. You have no req 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 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 real-real cotton, real linen, real silk, or what ever the material may be, and you never pretended it was Honiton or point.
 'But if men, in their strength and courage and independence, are enviable, men in their gentleness are irresistible" concluded the writer. "You expect gsn- tleness in women It Is their attribute and characteristic You do not admire it's presence so much as you deplore or condemn it's absence. But manly ten. derness has peculiar charm and you meet 1t everywhere-in tho house and by the wayside ir 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 1t 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 a 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 50 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 I en- thusiastic over this involuntary out gushing of the stream of kindness which flows so continually from men to us- ward? have right to be. A nation of men loyal not to grace, beauty, mag nifcence, but to womanhood, to tho highest impulses of human nature, to tho love element of the universe, is thing to be enthusiastic about"
 The Picture Hat.
 "I witnessed an amusing incident at one of the local theaters the other evening"" remarked the theater-goer