The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-14
BY DOROTHY DIX.

ny OOHOThY DIX.
A famous Italian philosopher has
just written an essay ON women, IL
which he asserts that all women are
liars and cats, and that every word
that woman wastes on other women
is a libel that would be acuonable in
a court OF law, If law courts were no,
administered by men.
When man accuses woman OF being
har, she can at least retort, you are
another" Let 1t not be forgotten that
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over, IL women are given 10 telling
tarradIddles. their dependence upon
men, and the fact that they have to
Eatter and cajole everything they get
cut OF their lords and masters, goes
long way toward excuslng, II 1t does
not justify. the feminine propensity to
zig-zag from the straight line OF We
racity.
Passing over this ancient calumny.
however, We come to the second
charge, equally old and baseless. that
every woman is an Ishmael In direc-
toire gown, whose hand Is against
every other woman's. and whose
tongue leaves blister wherever 1t
touches a sisterwoman.
This view Of woman's inhumanity
to woman Is the commonly accepted
one. When a woman is dealing with
another woman, 1t would surprise nc
body to see her turn into en actual,
visible cat.
Women themselves are suspicious Of
each other, and forever on the look
out for the claws In the velvet paws;
yet the whole charge that women are
mean and cruel to other women Is
SANDER that has not a leg TO stand
upon in reality.
Woman Can Trust Only Woman.
Woman's best friend is woman. 1t
Is only women that woman dare
trust. 1t Is women who comfort and
stay each other in trouble, who wipe
the tears from each others eyes, and
God help her who has no other woman
70 turn to when her hour OF adversely
comes
People are always saying how much
more loyal men are TO each other than
women are, and that you never hear
a man say that Jim Smith is such a
nice fellow, but he dyes his mustache,"
AZ you sometimes hear a girl say that
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gets her complexion at the drug
store"
Maybe not, but neither do you hear
Jones. who Is In the grocery business,
extolling the merits OF Smiths -four,
and potatoes, and sugar, and coffee.
and telling what a nice, clean store
bis rival keeps. and what honest
weight he gives.
Now. marriage Is the business OF
woman. The pursuit OF some man Is
the pursuit Of fortune and success and
happiness, to her; and to expect her
to waste much breath In blowing the
horns of her competitors, and calling
the mans attention TO how pretty
Mary Is, or how sweet and-amiable
Jennie Is, or what good housekeeper
Susan Ia, Is to demand Of her to be
more than human.
When you consider how much wo'
men have at stake, they are enormous
ly generous In the way they treat
each other. They throw lot more
bouquets at each other than any two
rival political candidates ever do;
and the men are only struggling for
year or twos tenure OF An Office,
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something that will be q sinecure for
life.
Men only Fair Weather Friends.
Men are, at best, but fair weather
friends 10 a woman. and when she
needs a real friend she has to turn
to one OF her own sex As long as a
woman is young and good looking and
gay, a man IL willing to spend his
money on her and take her about and
enjoy himself with her.
But let some real misfortune happen
to her: let some grief come TO her 40
that che is simply foun
tain Of tears: let illness turn her into
nothing but a hideous wreck or what
she was, and where are her men
friends them
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