Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-05-29
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DR.. REICH SAYS IN AMERICA THE
WOMAN COMMANDS THE
MAN.


Nations differ in nothing so much
as in their women, says DR.. Emil
Reich in the Grand Magazine (Lon.
dom. The French, English or Ameri'
can woman is easily distinguishable
The American woman is totally diff.
is the French woman, though the diff
ference in this case is not SO intense
so is the German woman; so is the
woman of Italy. The American wom-
an, he thinks, while differing from
all European sisters of today, bears
marked resemblance to the woman
of ancient Sparta. The Spartans re-
sembled the present day Americans
the Athenians were like the English
Going on to point out in what respect
the American woman is like the Spar.
tan woman, he protests that he has
not the slightest intention of being
disagreeable" when he says of the
American maid, wife or mother, Il do
not blame, do not praise; l only say,
and say emphatically, that the Amer.
lean woman is not womanly; she is not
woman" The whole of the United
States, he says, is under petticoat gov.
eminent, and man is practically non.
existent. To quote, says the Literary
Digest:
In America woman commands man,
Man does not count there. The last
man that came to America was Chris.
TOPPER Columbus. Today man has no
existence, he does not talk in the
drawing room. but is a dummy. The
woman lives one life, the man anoth.
er, and they are totally distinct from
each other. She lives so that she can
have a good time; she lives for sensa
tons. l do not blame her, l do not
condemn her. Her interest lies not in
man. She wants to be alone, and she
cannot be alone without dabbling to-
day with chemistry, tomorrow with
physiology. one day after with Buddh
ism, passing on to Swedenborgianism
to wireless telegraphy, and to the
works of Marie Corelli. Having taken
in doses of science, of philosophy, OF
mathematics, she then thinks she is
up-to-date; she feels she has developed
into something new; it is the search
for a new SILVER, something out of the
ordinary, deadly desire to be very
new. Aspasias, Gretchens and Ophe
lias are obsolete, in her opinion. She
is as new as man born today is new
she is made up of restlessness and
fidgetiness long before she is rs. But
she is very beautiful; she has the best
complexion in the world-better than
that of any European woman. She is
also we'll built and handsome. You
see fine specimens of the American
woman in Kentucky and Massachu
sets. But she is type quite dis
tinct from the English type; she does
not try to have dignity or refinement
she wants to affect man by what she
says, and not by what she does MOI
say. She has no passion, no senti
ment; all this is alien to her. She is
mass of nervous energy. To her
home and husband are nothing, ant
her child-her own creation-but yer,
little. The two types of woman, the
American and the English, are, in fact
totally different"
He thinks it omens i'll to the futur.
of the United States that woman ir
this country is really a Spartan il
character and disposition, and he say.
that American Imperialism and "bit
stickism" are largely the result of thi
type of femininity. Thus:
"A few miles distant from the Ath
ems of old-what would be- but E
short railway journey in these days
lay Sparta. The Spartans were i'm
perialists, and they wanted to conque
the whole of Greece. The Spartan
woman, as have remarked, was Xix,
the American woman of today. Sh,
never dreamt of lovers; her idea wal
nothing less than conquering man; sh'
never thought of him as more than
fellow athlete. A boy, when he was
years old, was taken away from hi
mother; and when married, at 20, h,
was frequently not allowed to see hi.
bride for two years. II he did see he
1t was by stealth. These women wrest
led with the men in a state Of nudity
Inere was no wOmanhOOd in them
no more than in so many sticks. Th<
Athenlans said that they were very
fne. but there was nothing feminine
about them. They were far richer
too, than the men, for the men wen,
to the wars and died, and the womer
thus became rich. Aristotle said tina,
the Spartan woman was sure to ruiz
Sparta very quickly. And so she did
for We find Sparta trying to rule
Greece in the fourth century B. c.;
IN the third century she was sinking;
IN the second century she had ceased
, to exist!
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