The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-27
Is the American Man Not
Interesting to Woman
By David F. St. Clair.

athletics. When ne a Deen It the
university a few months the father
visited him, and saw in his room the
pictures of a number of beautiful
women and slippers and sofa pillows
that had come from scores of femin-
inc admirers.
WELL" said the millionaire, look
ing around, they seem to have found
out who your father is"
The young man smiled with Just
the slightest suggestion of derision
and said:
Don't know. I have not informed
any one, and 1 have never visited. any
of these m These pictures and
other things have come to me because
these women have een me win Oh
the g%ridiron."
The millionaire father reflected for
a moment, and. then said:
my SON, what I see and what you
tell me reveal to me a great truth.
II you had made a million dollars in
Wall Street the fact lever would
have produced this evidence of wom-
ans admiration. Plenty of women
would like to have your money, but
not one would think the more of you
for having the money"
And in this age of money-making
that is the chief virtue of athletics.
Woman to love man requires, as a
rule, the exhibition of the heroic In
him.
In Europe educated men live more
within themselves than we do, and
they have constantly evolved from
the inner spirit a world of thought
and art that renew: life. They are
sustained by a tradition and history,
in whose rich, mysterious atmosphere
we behold them as far more interest
ing than ourselves. They endow IAN
guage and speech with an ~esoteric
meaning that is absent from the writ
ten and spoken words of America.
Woman is not herself 9 creative art
list, but she does create art through
the soul of man; and she does in turn
breathe the Interpretation of it phys
ically into the hearts of men.
The majority Of women are not by
nature democrats, and Europe still
possesses those ranks, distinctions
and spectacular shows of royalty and
nobility that appeal to the feminine
heart. European courts have a gla-
mour for certain Of our women that
is not to be found in anything else.
The throne is a social power and GEN.
ire, such as no republic could or
would ever build. Don't ask me-"
remarked a patriotic, intelligent
American woman, which I had rath-
er do-ride with the President of the
United States to his Inauguration or
with the King of England to his cor
onation. I fear that I might confess
something that would greatly shock
you"
Nor are the striking virtues of the
American man attractive to woman.
He possesses great common sense, he
loves facts and direct motion; and,
above all, he loves good-humor and
humor. He is a servant in the house.
He is the most indulgent of men
alive. He will let his daughter read
the story Of his bankruptcy and fnan-
cial disgrace in the newspapers before
he will cut off one dollar of her re-
mittance. Woman admires his vir-
tues and generosity, but they do not
command her soul. To her there q
nothing heroic in them. They do not
dazzle her. Her thirst of curiosity in
man remains unquenched. She will
fall in love with a stranger disguised
across the footlights, or she will
elope with her fathers coachman in
her efforts to satisfy this curiosity
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