Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

planning things so that the weaker one
with her poor little brain. might not be con-
fronted with such complex antagonlsin :
His life is comparatively simple, as re
cannot DENY, when he contrasts 1t with
hers, as woman as wife, as a mother
and an oyerseer of the household, not TO
speak of social duties and the task or al
ways making a good appearance.
But mark you, he has never done so.
He has always lived his life with business
success and a good tailor as his twin stars.
He pays the bills That is his gospel and
he gets his pound or flesh dozen times
over.
We could not help being aware of what
woman las achieved, because we are al
ways hearing of it Analysed, we must
realize that all she has achieved is per-
mission to work shoulder to shoulder with
men Women are not getting anything for
nothing today, any more than they were
hundreds of years ago.
And through what cycles of derision and
sccrn and persecution has she worked up
to that wonderful boon-permission to ton!
Neither her body nor her brain Is so strong,
but the fact has been ground into her soul
for ages that man must be prevented from
/ turning up that great deed of his paying
the bills Eliminate that glory of his and
| how little is left him to brag of. Take him
| from the precious sovereignty of doing
out dollars for a Woman's hats and frocks
| as though they Were personal gifts, and
his virtues would be nil Alimony is the
| apotheosis of man
| If men were naturally chivairous, nne
| and IDEAL such as we would wish to think
| them, would they not surely through al
| these years have changed things about sc
| that women would have a better deal-ir
| law. in love, in everything!
And even at their brainfest is there not
| much that constantly evades them? Witt
their power that accidental power of sex
what would not women have achieves
| through the two thousand years? Would
| not the gospel of love rule the nations Of
| the earth rather than the gospel Of graft
Man controls great affairs. but there /.
| only one woman he controls, and that Is
| his wife, and he sometimes makes a bungif
| of that There is some feather lobe in thai
| mountainous brain of his that tells hin
| the eternal difference must be maintained
! For womans sake? No, for the sake Of
| men.
i For they know well that the situation
rests largely with women once they have
| achieved the godTood OF paying the bills
| Women, with their whims, their beauty
| their ambitions and their love. are tht
/ poles that uphold the social circus tent.
/ If man. heavy-headed and heavy-footed
/ could actually rule there would be no tent
/ but the sky. Over open fires foods woula
/ be cooked, gained In hunting and in fish.
| ing There would be tremendous smoking
drinking, fighting and swearing. Sucf
ways do the large brains tend
/ The women that would be of mems max
ms would be sorry lot. The preponder-
ant brain has never worked 10 the chance
of allowing women political individualism
over the most ignorant male. Logic has
taught mascuiinity that the experiment
/ would be a dangerous one The American
eagle Is a hen for some good reason
| Men know their risks. not through theiI
inteliects, but through their ears. Their
wives have for ages been feeding them with
fattery, as Judith did Holofernes, that she
might win her point. Heavy but pi1headed