The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-03-09

And now - % what maAss - WON
ans woman" Certainly here the case
is difrerent.
Would It ever delight woman and
win from her warm emotion to hear
another woman proclaim that she had
shivered with fright at the approach
OF tramp? She might sympathize
with the feeling and for the very rea.
son of its comprehensibility to her 1t
would fail to arouse In her any espe-
cIal interest. AS a matter OF fact,
observation seems to prove that tho
woman's woman is pretty apt to have
certain qualities OF the manly In her.
These. OF course, must never be Of the
giosser sort; indeed, they must be dis
guised. as 1t were. and appear only In
their ultimate effect.
But observe closely the women
whom other women seek In compan-
ionship, and extol to others, and see
If there is not something which salts
fies this same feminine desire to lean
to be led, to be supported. which is OF
piece with mans attractiveness to
women. Let woman-granting her
some personal attractions, Of course
show herself capable to lead in
thought, in opinion, in public or pri-
vate action, and see II she will not
have, at once, host of admirers In
her own sex. II she has real powers,
she will have them In the other sex.
also, but see If the quality be not diff
ferent. With men, 1t will be an attrac-
ton, tribute to what she does, rath-
er than to herself, while with women
1t will be a more personal matter. They
go to hear her speak. rather than to
hear her speech, and when they come
away they say: Isn't she interesting?
Isn't she wonderful" while the male
portion of the audience will speak only
of her subject and the manner of its
treatment.
The truth Is "the ever womanly"
has little charm for women, perhaps
because familiarity breeds contempt.
BY the same token, 1t delights men. be-
cause nothing is so fascinating as mys-
tery-a quality which seems even more
worthil. rendered by the French word
mystere
In this connection 1t may 10 inter-
esting to consider what may be the
effect of the present tendency toward
equalizing the attributes of the two
sexes It has been claimed that II,
in becoming voters and bread-winners,
women must needs lose some OF thcir
femininity, men, on the other hand.
would be gamers, from the fact that
the association of the two sexes at the
polls and in places of business would
tend to impart to them some of the
gentleness and modesty which are sup
posed to be the attributes OF woman.
This being so, the two sexes would
become more alike and, what, In ef-
feet, would be the loss and gain from
this?
No doubt, in the sense OF practical
utility, the gain would be great, for
the matter of sex, and the considera-
ton which is at present demanded for
women, is often nuisance In the
rough and tumble Of business life, and
any new condition which placed the
sexes more on level would make mat
ters simpler for working purposes. But.
on the other hand, how great would
be the loss to the other side OF mems
and women's natures! The disappear
aDce of that element of mystery which
constitutes so large a part OF the pow
er of attraction between the sexes
would make life somewhat tame az
fair for each OF them. Unquestion-
ably, II the mental, the psychic and
the spiritual are to be considered. this
equalizing of the sexes is to be CO
plored.
These crude observations would
seem to suggest that behind this elu-
sive, indefinable, seemingly capricious
subject Of attraction there rests GER.
tain law, albeit 1t may seem to con-
tradict other postulates which are &C
cepted as laws. We have the axiomat-
f. deductions that birds Of feather
flock together and that like seeks
like.
These, no doubt, are good working
principles. and may be applied in a
general way, but when we come to
anything SO subtle and so psychic as
this secret attraction between human
beings 1t would seem that 1t is regu-
lated by the law OF opposites. The
mans woman, therefore, Is she whs
has some essential qualities of woman
illness in her, and the woman's woman
must possess some essential qualities
OF manliness, while the most attractive
and retaining of all is the woman
whose quality defies all definition, who
draws all the world to her, men, wom-
en- and children alike, because of her
inherent possession OF that rarest and
least to be analysed of all qualities
for which we find no better word than
that potent little monosyllable, charm.
Modern French Ideals.
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