The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-20

Else How Could Women Capture So
Many Burglars.

There are many indications OF the
coming supremacy OF woman, not
only in the realm of the intellectual
but also of the physical. That she is
more of reader than is the average
man was noted not long ago by the
observing novelist, w. d. Howells.
While the man devotes himself, mind
and body, to his business, owing to
the sharp competition and to the fact
that 1t is easier to keep on working
and worrying than IL is to stop, and
while he confines his reading mainly
to newspaper headlines, woman reads
nearly everything that is not humor-
Gus, from the newspaper editorial
article to books. Book dealers as
sert that vast majority of the book
buyers are women, and the same is
true of library readers. The in
evitable result is the intellectual SUI
periority of the sex which was long
charged with inferior brains. A re-
cent divorce case in New England
shows how a woman will subordinate
everything to the pursuit of culture.
The man in the case is a photog-
rapher who scraped and saved in or
der that the wife might educate her.
self. In her application for a legal
separation she admits that the man
is good and indulgent as a husband,
but she afflrms that 1t interferes with
her ambition to associate with per-
son of his defective education.
Woman's progress is little less
marked physically, but still 1t is posi-
tive. However 1t may be explained,
the fact is significant that of the
burglars apprehended by others than
the police great majority are seized
by women. Nearly every day we read
of the smashing of an impudent male
by woman skilled in the art of de-
Tending herself. Besides the gym
nasium, the manual training school
and the like, it is learned that piano
playing is of all means of physical
development the most effective. In
an address before the Philadelphia
Music Teachers Association Mrs.
Murray declared that the playing of
this instrument brings into play ev-
cry muscle of the body. This con-
firms and explains a widespread opin-
ion. That tender young girl of ap-
parently frail body can produce noise
enough on single piano to distract
a whole neighborhood is convincing
proof that she has concealed about
her small person muscular power to
excite the envy of boilermaker. AS
nine-tenths of all who take piano les
sons are girls, and as the average
period of study is eight years, the ul-
innate physical supremacy of woman
is plain to every mathematician.
To insure the earlier achievements
of this revolution, an eminent Berlin
surgeon denies what was a prevalent
belief in that city, that piano play
ing is injurious to health, He de-
clares, on the contrary, that musi-
clans, nearly all of whom wrestle
with the piano, live longer than any
other class of persons. The contrary
opinion was announced by a medical
man who believes it is right for a
doctor to lie in order to save life
his own life. In this instance. He
considered the night practice of
neighbor's girl menace TO his
health. AS an ordinance has been
adopted in Berlin limiting piano prac-
tice to certain hours in the day, 1t is
no longer necessary to deceive the
performers.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.