The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-21

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IL think" he concluded, that all
this lack of small personal honor
that we have been discussing in wom-
en- finds its root in the fact that
women do not tell themselves the
truth about themselves No one
has ever made them. A man, from
the schoolroom up, is forced to look
his own mean acts in the face. II
he don't do 1t his fellows will make
him: but there Is no such salutary
training the education of women.
Quite the contrary. They are bred to
think themselves just, because they
are women, intrinsically better than
men, and this is what starts the long
process of self-deceit."
: / recalled only too clearly a little
family tragedy of which | happened
to be the witness. The brother had
told his sister certain facts of his
life. He wanted her advice. They
quarreled and the sister Immediately
told the mother and father all about
It. She had long felt 1t her duty to
do so. she said; in fact, she seemed
TO think that her better nature had
struggled with her all along to make
her tell the scrapes the boy was get
ting into. As soon as they quarreled
the better nature triumphed, and she
told everything, and made a great
deal of trouble doing 1t.
| know many women who auto
matically pump their servants who
come from some friends home. They
do it without knowing what they
have done. If one were to accuse them
of gossiping with the servants they
would deny II Indignantly. | have
had a woman take down a telephone
lreciver and listen unperturbed In
my presence. Many woman, who
will scorn to listen at a keyhole, has
no such scruples in regard to tcle-
phone.
| have relative who Is n country
doctor. There is one single telephone
wire between him and a little village
three-quarters of a mile away. All the
houses in the whole community give on
that wire. When he was called up
from any of the houses along this
line he would go to the telephone
and say:
Now. everybody but my patient
put up their receivers" For well he
knew that every woman who had
heard the Doctors ring had flown to
the telephone to learn who was sick
and why and how. Next he would
say:
There are several of you who
haven't rung off yet. Ring off now
before | talk TO my patient-there's
three that are listening yet he
would pursue; 81 shall tell their
names If don't hear the clicks of the
receivers"
He would wait a minute. Then he
would say:
Gamma Smith, put your receiver up
so | can talk to my patient.
After this he would proceed.
/ present this little investigation |
have made for what II Is worth. |
do not for a moment mean to say
that all women are lacking in per-
sonal honor or that all men abound
in It, but | do think that there Is
code among men which does not
exist-certainly to the same extent
among women, and where men break
this code they are dis"redited as a
woman is not, From my own person.
al experiences, the professional wom-
EN- who have been trained with men
share the mans code to a far great
er extent than many women OF
equally high ideals and purity of life
who have lived only in their homes,
cherishing the notion that because
they are women their acts are good,
My own conclusion is that of my
friend Martin Gilman, the lack OF
honor in the restricted sense | have
specified Is woman's vice. And again.
must agree with my friend the
judge, that this will continue to be
so long as women give themselves
virtuous reasons for breach of conf
dence of every kind.
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