The San Francisco call., 1906-06-05

1t is to laugh,
And also let's throw in for good
measure pooh. pooh! for you, DIR.
Reich,
DR.. Reicn, so the newspaper CORE
spondents tell u.s. is an Hungarian sa-
want and his 'savey" is all about wom-
an, who, he declares, is intellectually
the superior of man.
The study of woman is'Dr Reich's
speciality. He discovers things about
her. And then he gives lectures and
tells her all about these discoveries. .
And the pleasant things he tells her
are all such gross batteries that they
are an insult to her intelligence, pro-
vided, of course, that the woman who
would listen to DIR. Reich has any in
telligence.
The base things he utters are sops to
his masculine vanity. and naturally
these sops must be large and succu-
lent, for of all kinds of vanity mascu-
line vanity is the worst.
The discoveries DR.. Reich has made
about women he retails to women at
lectures at Claridges. London. In his
audiences mostly are duchesses and
countesses, some born to the titles they
wear and others who have purchased
them-and "a nan thrown in to boot
with good American money. If it were
only about these women that DIR. Reich
had made discoveries one would have
nothing to say. Most of us do not
know any duchesses or countesses.
neither have we on our visiting list
the names of heiresses who have pur-
chased husbands and titles. But the
doctor. like true philosopher, would
make his deductions general
That is why / say Ha, Ha and
likewise Pooh! POOH
No intelligent woman feels at all
complimented when she is told that
she is mans intellectual superior. She
feels unclassed. and that is the mean
est thing for woman to feel. Tell
her she is mans equal intellectually,
and then she will be pleased.
Only an inferior man who has min
gled with inferior women could make
such mistake as Dr. Reich has.
Woman is not all clamoring to be de-
clared mans SUPERIOR All she ever
that now. Just as it offended her in
years and years gone by to be classed
as mans inferior, just so will it arouse
her animosity if today man is declared
to be intellectually beneath her.
The first instinct in woman is mother
love. Wnen Sne is llttIe she mothers
her dolls and her pets. As years ad-
vance she mothers her younger broth
ers and sisters. If she has not any she
mothers the neighbors' children. She
mothers her sweetheart. and she moth
ers her husband, and do you think for
moment she will stand for having
them called inferior?
Indeed she won't. Woman is mans
equal. That is the highest praise any
woman can ask.
DIR. Reich claims to have made special
discoveries relative to the American
woman. The most libelous of these is
the assertion he makes that "the Ameri-
can woman does not care for children
or the family. Men are to her but a
means to an end. The American woman
thinks only of herself. To her man is
mere writer of checks; a getter of
money for her to spend. The English
and French women are more domestic;
they love their home. their husbands,
their children"
And Dr. Reich says he spent several
years in America. They must have been
years when he went about with his
eyes shut 1t is universally conceded
that every American woman is a queen
Likewise is ii acknowledged that there
is no Drawer gentleman than the Ameri-
| can man, lie respects all women. lie