The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-11

to the chvalry of the American men; there many
American who have serious objections to pur-
chasing peace in the family at that price After
man has had some of his best crockery thrown at
him he begins to doubt the efficacy of wife beating
a corrective
Unconsciousy the American is press agent
ing" the consideration he has for women whenever
he has chance, and perhaps the most surprising
thing about it is that the do not resent it
when they have the opportunity He to think
it is his duty to educate his in that belief So
when little Willie to him with the American
history showing the Indian squaw dragging the
tepee along the ground he gets his talk ready.
THAT shows you, my boy he will say, how diff
ferently American treat their wives to what the
Indians did Those men made their squaws do all
the work, taking their homes from place 70
another. Now the work, support their wives.
pay rent for the flats and in many other ways show
how much they respect women"
But papa, don't the women have to work hard
now?n
Certainly not certainly not''-this in the most
convincing way. They do a little homework and
cooking and mending and all that, but think too
much of our women to make them work the In
dams made their wives
Father is so very of this that Willie is con-
WINGED that it must be So When he grows up he be-
gins to proseyte the faith and in that way, genera
ton after generation the missionary work goes
AS matter of fact many American de-
scendans of those chivalrous forefahers who lived
around Salen and showed how highly they revcred
the other by going out every afternoon and
burning at the stake.
1t has seemed to many persons that history has
treated those Puritan forefathers unkindly. They
might have been filled with chivalry, but the Yankee
who not looking for the best OF it has not yet
been found. Whenever a found VINO
getting wise to the men of the colony it was
decided that she must be witch, and the fagots
were accumulated Another instance of the chivalry
of those fathers is the way they used the ducking
stools for seolds
Just for Instance
1t may not be justice to charge the American men
of today with the acts of those Puritans but they
were as insistent that they were considerate OF
as are the men of today. And, after ALL sci
has taken recognition of the hereditary instinct.
But the question is whether not the Amcri-
is making good his egotistical claim that
he is the last word in chiva1ry.
Take for instance, the Little Brother of the Rich,
one of those human moths who delight to circle
around the light that is shed by show girl To the
particular girl who is separating him from his money
on whom he is avishifg the product of the hot
houses and diamond mines of South Africa, he is a
Chesterfield and can not do enough for her. But
now ABOUT stne GEAR OLD gray haired nolneI! lne
chances arc that she is crying her eyes waiting
for him arrive home in the morning, and if SHE
trieste demonstrate with him he is as saucy as his
added brain will permit him to be.
Perhaps the American should not be judged
by those narrow chested travesties of his But
it is certain that all American men are more consd-
crate OF beauty than they of age. Go on any
streetcar subway train and two come
in one young and beautiful, with appealing eyes
and good clothes; the other old and looking like
who is finding it hard to get along and earn
money enough to keep up the struggle Which one
will be offered seat?
The boosted chivalry of the american man is or
exhibition every subway station during the rush
hours. Not the workingmen or the tough looking
citizen from the districts where the growler is al
in commission after o'clock, but the respect
able looking man, who may be lawyer, broker oil
a clerk is the who pushes to side
shows respect for the sex and makes a rush fo
seat
1t may be that since the women have been insist
ing on equal rights with the insist
ing on the taking chace with then
for seats. And it may be that is the proper wa,