The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-12

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I should go as a man in a1mor.
perkily than they came in. During the
progress of the whole business, I was
very much interested as a kind of out
SIDE spectator apart altogether from
my own share in the proceedings. Cow
ard Adam was climbing his tree all the
time, and I watched him climb 1.-The
woman whom thou gavest, it was
the same everlasting old cry! One of
i the Ananiases concerned had, some
months before, contributed something
to the press about the unwritten laws
/ lawsl Why are they not called those
Enacted laws? Seeing that Coward
Adam always quotes them when ignOr-
/ ing themi
| 'unwritten law of chivalry." This
law, so I understand, Coward Adam
/ does sometimes manage to obey, albeit
reluctantly. Because he would like to
+ tel,-he would very much like TO tell
lift the story of the kiss did not
| involve himself in the telling! But at
this juncture the unwritten laws of
| chivalry' step in and he is saved. And
/ chiValry is the tree up which he
climbs. chattering to himself the usual
/ formula-"The woman whom thou
gavest to be with me, "-etcetera,
/ electra. Alas, poor woman! She has
/ nGaTQ MIN saying this ever since she,
in an unselfish desire to share her food
with him, gave him the forbidden ap-
pie. No doubt she offered him its
rosiest and ripest side. She always
/ does,-at first. Not afterwards. As
EsOon as he turns traitor and runs UP a
| tree, she takes to pelting him, meta
/ phorically speaking, with cOcoa-nuts.
This is quite natural on her part. She
had thought him man,-and when
he suddenly changes into q monkey,
she doesn't understand it. To this
/ cause may possibly be attributed some
of the ructions which occasionally jar
the harmonious estate of matrimony.
Coward Adam does very well in
America. He sees his position there
quite plainly. He knows that If he
| climbs his tree too often, hundreds of
feminine hands viii put him down. So
I he resigns himself to the inevitable.
He is not slow to repeat the customary
| Whine-"The woman whom thou
/ gavest me''-but he says it quietly to
| himself betweenWhiles. Because he
knows that she knows all his share
| and finds gold and silver and limitless
/ oil WhereWith to turn into millions OF
dollars for her pleasure; he packs
/ pork laws railway tracks. starts com
/ strains every nerve and sinew to do"
I every other Adam save himself in his
| own particular line of business SO that
the woman Cor may we say the WOm-
/ clothed in Paris model gowns, and
| wear jewels Out-rivalling in size and
luster those of all the kings and queens
that ever made their sad and stately
/ Coward Adam, in the position he occu-
pies as a free citizen of that mighty
republic over which the wild eagle
| screams exultingly, looks a little bit
like a beaten animal. But he bears his
I beating well, and is quite pleasant
about 1t. In regard to the woman
| whom thou gavest me" he is nearer the
| imaginary code of 'schiValry" than his
European brother. If the original
Adam had learned the ways of a mod
| ern American gentleman of good edu-
| cation and fine manner, one can quite
| imagine him say-"The woman whom
thou gavest to be with me generously
| offered me q share of the apple, and
/ did eat. But the Serpent whom thou
didst permit to tell lies to my amiable
partner concerning this special kind of
fruit, was chiefly to blame"
| Coward Adam, as he is seen and
known among the lower classes, crops
up every day in newspapers, which
! duly chronicle his various acts such
ing girls and rObbing them of all their
little savings, as well as of their good
names,=kicking his wife, starving his
/ children, and spending every penny he
earns in the public house. But he is
Just as frequently met with in the
houses Of the Upper Ten. He will
wear the garb of a lord with ease, and,
| entering the house of another lord,
| will cOzen his hosts wife away from
/ loyalty to her husband in quite the
manner friendly He is likewise to
be found occasionally in the walks of
/ literature, and where a woman is con-
cerned in matters artistic will down"
her If he can He has always done
his best to hinder woman from receiv
ing any acknowledgment for superior
INTEL ctuaI ability. Notably one may
quote the case of Madame Curfe, the
Idiscoverer of radium. Coward Adam
says she discovered it by a huke'-
that is to say, by chance. Most great
discoveries occur, even to men, in the
same way. In the present instance
the chance came to a woman. Why
. should she not therefore have all the
honor due to her2=the same honor
! precisely as would fall to the lot of a
/ man in her place? Columns upon
/ columns of praise would be bestowed
upon her We're she of Adam s sex, and
all the academies of science would con-
! tend with each other as to which
1 should offer her the best and most dis
q tinctive award. But Coward Adam
cannot abide the thought that the wo-
man whom thou gavest' should take
: an occasionally higher rank than his
: own among the genfuses OF his age. He
must have everything or nothing. He
j tries to ignore the fact that woman
is winning equal hOnOrs with himself
in university degrees,-he would fain
+ forget that the tive greatest monarchs