Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14


~ play eighteen holes of very good
"a golf at Puteaux without being the
Il a worse physically for the exertion
the question of strength as dis
played by the modern young woman was
broacHed. OF course the whole woman
question. it used to be called. has long
been settled satisfactorily. People no longer
argue on the subject of the mental inferior
ity of woman, 1t is generally taken for
granted today that the mind is not an
gan of sex. In the matter of physical cX-
cellrnce no such conclusion has been ar
rived at 1t Is still usual TO think of woman
something infinitely Eeebler than man
and 10 ailude to her the weaker YES
sell this In spite of the fact that she
usually towers head and shoulders above
him and can wear him out at any game or
sport ia which she cUndescends TO compete
with him. Indeed. the whole trend of a
girls education now is To make her strong
Gymnastics and athletics have taken the
place OF water colors and embroidery. The
modern girl fences and learns jiu-jitsu. She
can hang on a trapeze with her heels and
and knock man down with the turn of her
wrist She can sail boat. drive a motor
car. play golf and dance all night without
turning hair. In fact. She can do every
less sleep. No man could lead the life OF
t#e ordinary society woman and not be a
wr~ak ut the end of the first season And
certainly no man could run the risk the
average woman runs In the matter of health
and not become a confirmed invalid on the
spot. Has any one. | wonder. ever yet met
man VITO would not get rheumatism If he
werr 20 SIT In transparent shirt In a
how ltHG draft Does any man breathe who
wuuli not have an attack Of pneumonia If
Na d |k.HfN nv "a la. a in gF,g,
and upcuwork stockings Yet women do
all these things every day without being
bit TIA" worse for It.
In the matter of evening dress how
much farther they go. On the coolest win
ter night they Will remove all their wooden
garments and the furs which have been
protecting their lungs all day. while after
coming ont OF a sitting th-ater they will
stand 100 the open air waiting for their
carriages &" come up without even taking
the tToIh'e 10 fasten their cloaks AS for
woman digestion. II is no exaggeration
to say trat she can cat and drink things
wt.'h would XIII men off like files The
way In which women disregard nature
would ue appalling If ii were not for the
tast that they thrive on 1t so well. Every
no" and then some cnvious man tries 70
initiate some ore of them. with the result
thai hc invariably sinks into a yawning
grave wuie she Ecrenely passes on from
the funeral rites OF husband after husba nd
toward the completion Of her hundredth
year To boast about the superiority of the
feminine SEX a minute longer when II comes
to enduring physical pain. a woman again
distances Il man. Every doctor and dentist
viii tell you which is the drawer OF the two
once heard physician say that If you can
keep woman sufficiently excited there are
no limits to the suffering she will endure
cheerfully. In physical and mental crises
a woman Will keep up long after a man has
gone under, while so far mere energy is
concerned woman is never tired unless
she IS bored and then nobody knows how
she can ache. So long as there IS anything
to Keep her going she will go. She was
never meant to work. but when she has "a
she can combine half dozen professions
In a way that would be the complete undo
lnS of "a Now. | reckon we have had
enough of this blowing of our own trumpet