Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-15


When boy is put upon his honor he responds
to the demand / know not where he gets his in
stlncts, nor how that atom of humanity can have
understood the COmpulSiOn that is laid upon him;
but in nine cases out of ten many more, dare
say, his honor IS inviolable and he will stand by his
word whether 1t is given to his master or his
panon spite of the sting of hardship the allure
ment OF tempting delights. He was born with his
sense of honor as he born with his of To-
cation and his sense OF distance. 1t will guide him
through maZes OF conduct, as they Will guide him
through unknown cities and trackless woods.
OF honor among girls, how shall one speak with
out knowledge? Is their word also to be trusted?
And can girls school be put upon its honor,
boys school can? What sense of obligation to the
demands of honor as we know it. have those strange
young enigmas OF beauty? Let who will reply.
Must First Prove Herself
WHEN we come to the world of grown-up boys,
w honor is taken for granted, and every man is
friend until he proves himself enemy. In the world
of women nothing is taken for granted but emulation,
and every woman IS instnctively distrusted by
every other woman until she proves herself harm
less. Even when she tries to prove her trendness,
she is seldom exempt from suspicion The
radeship of men as they commngle in business and
congregate in clubs, without tedium and without
disaster is something unknown to women.
There is among all men underlying trust, so
that when strange meet they drink together
without fear. Their code enjoins upon them
thing called honor obligation of peace, which
engenders feeling of security, of which even the
least fastdious is distinctly aware and of which the
typical woman has SO inadequate comprehension.
fellowship means and does not taste it every day
of his life. 1t out of his experience that the
term solidarity invented.
But the cement which holds men together is in
effective among women. They do not cohere nor
structuraze but remain an aggomeration of sepa-
rate entities mutually repelent PARTICLES purposely
designed perhaps, to keep up constant activity
in the crucible of life. Without their agitating
influence, who say that might not quickly
become stale and torpid, and Our boosted solidarity
become nothing more than fossiliZation? Not while
there are women in the world
When it is said of a that he is all right" it
is meant that he will play the game according to the
rules; not only that he will stand by his friends but
that he will not knife his enemy in the back; that
he will give and demand fair play and honest deal
ing; and that he will not violate his code Whether
he is crook gentleman, if he is all right you
may trust him anywhere within his precinct.
But who will be rash to predict what a
woman will do in given event? Her code is not
formulated the guides of her action inspiration
and impulse, monitors of which we in our crude
reasonable way always most skeptical. You
may quote her the rules of precedence the dictates
of tradition, the accepted laws of all the Modes and
Persians, and she will hout them to the four winds,
her heart does indorse their advice. She APP
peals on the instant to a higher tribunal, to the
power wherein the laws originated. To her simple
mind the authority which made one law can just as
easily supersede it with another at any time,
and that which binds to-day may loose tomorrow
The governance of the boardng-schoo may have