Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-14
resnondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, February %, 1905
- OVERHEARD a gift the other day
say, referring to a mutual acquaint-
ance, Miss why. she's woman's
woman Now. I wonder if any
woman would feel hattered to hear
herself so described. For one thing. the
phrase suggests that her popularity Is
confined to her own sex. md. gratifying
as the admiration of her fellow-women
may be, the woman is yet to be born to
whom the undying devotion Of even one
man would not prove more sustaining.
At the same time 1t must be admitted that
the description. like that of a mans
woman" is misleading. giving. as it does.
the impression that men and women do
not like the same type of woman.
Nothing could. of course, be more alb
surd for. while there are a certain num-
Der of women who are conspicuous for
the fact that they are only appreciated
by men and others who appeal only to
their own sex. the really popular woman
is popular with both. Jealousy is sup
posed to be at the root of the average
woman's dislike of the ''mans woman"
This. however. is seldom the case. The
..man's woman is disliked by her own
sex simply because she is a fool. and
there Is nobody so unpopular in feminine
society as a fool Everybody is down on
her. even her fellowfooIs being only sorry
for her. and when one woman is sorry for
another 1t can mean only one thing-that
is that there is nothing to be feared from
her.
The first thing. on the other hand,
which a clever woman bent on social sue
cess does is to ingratiate herself with
al MI M
ones She knows that no amount of male
admiration will avail her anything unless
backed I'D with feminine approval This
most essential point is invariably missed
by the mans woman who. in this re-
spect. Is almost as mistaken in her con-
ceptfon OF the art of living as the "wom-
ans woman" whose lack of attractions
for the other sex so endears her to her
own. Though women. as a rule. like
having pretty and attractive woman
friends. there is no doubt that a great
deal of consolation is to be derived from
the possession of at least one sufficiently
dowdy and dull friend to allay the in
herent suspiciousness with which the
members of the female sex usually re-
gard one another. One friend. indeed. of
this kind is indispensable to a woman.
She may be a bore. but her lack of mag
ination is one Of the greatest assets she
possesses in attracting the friendship of
:other. women. for it means that she will
never criticise them. and only woman
knows the relief Of feeling herself in the
spresence OF another woman who will not
pick her to pieces the moment her back
is turned.
The Woman With Followers"
The worst Of the 'woman's woman"
10 that she is SO often surrounded by
impossible woman followers and when
.Abe marries-as. of course. she fire.
tauentiy does-her house Immediately be-
comes an asylum for the poor things Of
fher acquaintance. Nothing bores her
husband quite much as the strange
women to be found hanging around her
neck at odd hours. At the same time,
in a way there is no doubt that a nat
airal suspicion attaches to a woman
without woman friends Women. IL bad
Judges of men. are seldom wrong in their
estimate of other women, and If they
are inclined to be harder on each other
than a man would be. on the other hand
they are so easily propitiated that Il
woman who is unpopular with her own
sex has really her own self to blame for
1t. In nine cases out of ten her unpopu-