The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-06-22
MORBID CURIOSITY OF VULGAR WOMEN.

Mental pathologists, after years of experiment
tation and study, have yet discovered the bac-
lus of vulgar woman's morbid curiosity The
trial of the indicted conspirators and the crossex-
animation of the thug Orchard have allured to the
courthouse at Boise swarm of i'll bred women
The rush for admittance, particularly of women
compelled the armed anitors to close the doors of
the courtroom every morning some time before the
jury took their seats Women who can sit out
day after day. the prolonged sessions of this trial
breathe, hour after hour, the foul air of the trial
room feed their prurient appetites on details of
atrocious deeds and crafty their curiosity on the
gruesome revelations Of a self-confessed monster,
have fallen very low indeed
There is a prevailing impression that woman
is, by her very nature, curious and nquisiive
than man. We do not believe it to be So The re-
fined and cultured woman, the woman of clear mind
and clean thought is not more curious than her
male companion Being entirely different from man
she must always have different aspirations and apt
tudes from his Man has, by the will of his Crea-
tor, greater intellectual power, greater physical
strength, greater moral energy. But to make the
perfect unity of duality the ''two in one' of Gene
SIS, God has given to greater tenderness
more expansive love and more delicate and subtle
refinement of the human organism. 1t is because
of this difference that marriage forms a social
union, a union perfect and holy that ST. Paul
compares it to the union of Christ with his church
a union in which the elements of the man and the
woman harmonize each having his and her APP
pointed function. On the theory that the corrup-
ton of the best is always the worst we are free to
admit that when woman becomes vicious or vul-
cho foil
coarseness. Shakespeares bad women are all more
lusttul and revengefully cruel than his bad men,
and every observant man has noticed that mean
women outclass in dishonor mean men. 1t is by the
voluntary perversion of these more delicate en-
dowments of femnism by the decomposition of re-
fined attributes produced by low habits of thought
and by companionship with vulgar people and friv-
olOus literature, that a woman lowers and unsexes
herself. While this breaking up of the original
elements of her mental and spiritual being is oc-
curing her character is altering, and when the
transformation is complete there is produced vul
gar and, very often, sinful woman who seeks en-
Joyment In forbidden conversation and revolving
disclosures. Examples of this class of women are
as conspicuous in the mansions of the rich as in
the dwellings, of ordinary people
The idle life which many women live is condu-
Give to foulness of thought and subversive of the
nober and finer instincts of her nature St Paul
in his time, took note of this. Referring to the
habits of a particular class of women who. with
their husbands, had become Christians he writes.
"And, withal being idle, they learn to go about
from house to house, not only idle but tale bear
also and nquisitive, speaking things which thew
ought not" By reason of his more active life man
is, in measure preserved from the temptations of
morbidity and the sensual pleasures of an unoccu-
pied mind The more delicate and refined sensibl
ties of a woman's nature when once perverted be-
come, like tainted meat that gives out an unpleas
ant odor offensive and repellant. Once her imaq-
nation becomes a feeding ground for the worms of
bad thoughts and low desires her nature alters and
she falls victim to perversity. Every LAWYER
physician coroner or Judge will tell you that the
craving of the bad or vulgar woman for the erotic
and the gruesome is much more pronounced and
nsistent for its qualification than that of the
BAD or vulgar And it has always been so. In
The early days of the gladiatoral shows at Rome wo-
men excluded but, corruption eat deeper in
% the social and political life of the empire wo-
men demanded and obtained permission to witness
hese carniyals of blood and murder Tacitus tells