Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-07-09
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to answer the question which has puz-
zled the philosophers of all ages and
tell why woman is what she is Pro
fessor G. Stanley Hall declares that
woman has two souls and maybe more
than two; that she may love and hate,
feel joy and sorrow, at the same time
and not even be conscious that she Is
the subject of conflicting emotions. In
this way he would explain the world
old allegation that woman is perverse,
fckle and deceitful The woman is not
so, but her affinity" soul may be, and
she is not responsible, for she may not
know of the sidestepping of her other
self.
Not satisfied with telling why woman
is, an English psychological sharp. DR..
Thomas Claye Shaw. drops hint as
TO how she may be changAi--that is, if
change shall seem worth while. This
professor says that woman's moods
her tears, her Intensity, ''her fondness
for clothes and diamonds" and the gen.
eral mystery of her nature, result from
an overdevelopment Of certain emo
TONS Let those so inclined assume
that 1t is time to call a halt In this
overdevelopment These matters gen
orally regulate themselves, and already
there is at work the athletic develop
ment to counteract the inherited mus
cular weakness which, according to Dt.
Shaw, has obliged her to resort to ar
tifce to gain her ends" In order to
gain her ends by muscular strength We
man must become an amazon, and
those who prefer an amazon to the
present creature of alleged ''obstinacy.
sympathy and jealousy" will need to
speak up or the count on woman haters
will never be polled.
1t is difficult to decide which is the
stronger In these professors that they
essay to analyZe the general mystery
of woman in this fashion, their conceit
or their courage. 1t is often said that
woman is the worlds victim, and the
modern college professor seems not in.
clined to spare her from psychological
vivisection Perhaps man is an open
book and so perfect withal that he
offers no temptation to the moralizing
scientist. However, it is pertinent to
note that at the present time the ma
tionai administration and at least half
Of the states are trying to hammer men
into doing what is good for them and
to prohibit them from doing what it is
said by the men themselves they harm
themselves in doing. The spectacle may
not have any mystery in it for a scien-
tist, but to the average observer il
seems very funny. Here is what Thack
cray, the learned Dr. Shaw's fellow
counuyman, said of his own sex many
years ago: Which of US can point out
in his circle many men whose aims are
generous, whose truth is not only con
slant of its kind, but elevated in de-
gree; whose want of meanness makes
them simple, who can look the world
honestly in the face with an equal
manly sympathy for the great and
small?" Perhaps the future woman
professor will take up the hunt fol
Thackeray's man and tell the world
why he is, If found, and also why he
Is not, if missing.
Noiseless War.
Watch the crowds rushing from side
streets into an avenue and the sudden
display of heads at all the windows in
the neighborhood when the band be-
gins to play at the head of marching
soldiers and you get a good idea o.
how the war craze works on the young
Being ready to fight makes a nation
fight, says one philosopher, while al
other declares that it is the SPLENDID
Of war which makes it popular But
war cannot be splendid without noist
to advertise the splendor. The nois,
stirs up the blood and creates tha
nerve which is needed to make war &c
What the pageantry does through tn
eye to fire tue heart the noise does
through the ear.
. With the noiseless gun the martha
band must go too. In France the drum
Is now almost silenced in the army
Gaudy uniforms are out of favor
Equestrian pageantry. with the con
mander and his brilliant staff sweepinc
down the field, targets for all eyes a
well as for few guns, is thing of l.,
past The general stays in his tea
and his orders are carried by wire :.
the element of pomp and romance
war is passing, and the noiSeless Z
will about finish it. Humanitaria.
will do well to think about 1t hefo-
they oppose the noiseless Maxim
the ground that it is an Internal co.
trivance to murder human beings !;
may murder war by taking the la
vestige of romance out of it.
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