Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06
.ESPITE the fact that
this world is made up of

or condemnatory character kM%T
whenever praise or blame is Sr@s i
to be bestowed.
Woman without respect to sssg
persons, is, according to her - go 8
critics, unstable, tickle, hard -
to please subject to change Ss~s.s
without notice, decetful, vain =
and coy. She is also compass Il
Sionate, gentle, constant, and
a minlSterlng angel. Man. IN
the opinion of his Judges, is
by the same token severe
tyrannical, untruStworthy
with decided preferences for
having one foot on sea and one on shore as far
as sweethearts concerned and is also vain
and hard to please. He is likewise Just de-
pendable. faithful in love, and belongs to the
nobler SEX And yet two extremely popular
remarks breathing pessimism at every word
to the effect that men all alike and
women all alike. Statements
untrue never perpetrated suffering
public; for not all alike and women
are not all alike, both branches of the human
family differing among themselves in manners,
customs and law, though for two distinct sets
of reasons
The eternal feminine about which mankind
has puzzled itself for centuries springs from
very simple source,-the fact that woman.
depending upon man as her natural protector
and provider as he depends or IS supposed to
depend upon his conception OF the Deity, is at
the constant disadvantage of having to follow
an imperfect standard. the standard OF finite
intelligence not set by herself,-whie man has
the Incompatible advantage of being, so to speak.
in direct communication with Omnisc1ence. and if
revelation varies his development varies least
he has the satisfaction OF saying something about it.
Men dare be what they think they ought to be;
women dare be Cnly what they think men think
they ought to be- AS to what that is opinions differ
What Really Nice Girl Is
MOT very long ago some one somewhere discour-
~ aged at hearing many contradictory reports
as to what constituted " really nice girl, compiled
statistics on the subject. He was very con-
scientious in his undertaking and gathered his in
formation from many different sources he
could and he found very shortly that though it
extremely difficult to discover what "a really nice
girl could do without imperiing her position
such, there was practically no end to the number of
things she positively could not do.
For example, no really nice girl would go to the
theater with unchaperoned, lace, wear
switch, put powder on her nose, wear tight shoes,
wear a rat eat dinner down town alone with man.
be engaged more than once be engaged to more than
one man at once smoke cigarettes drink a cocktail
do her work, darn her husband socks, not darn
her husbands socks, get divorce, live with hus-
band who unkind to her mary before she
ntv-fve, kiss man unless she engaged to
him, kiss any at all even if she was engaged to
him. marry second time while her first husband
still living, marry second time even if he
dead marry third time under any conditions what
ever.
The first impulse of the seeker after knowledge
upon examining his statistics of profound
despair. He knew any number of girls he had al
ways regarded prominently nice; but according
all of sudden he cheered up He not only cheered
up he became exhilarated. He had made discov-
eryl He had unraveled the mystery of the eternal
feninine There millions of nice girls" as
many as there to set the standards! And
the standards were all different Which was part
of the major premise of this article.
And Really Nice Man
IN the face of it, it would be difficult to make out
- list of similar protective value for really nice
men ; for the reason that just what man has to do
to drop out of the really nice class is Bernard
Shaw says about matrimony "a subject that has
never yet been thoroughly threshed out" Moreover
the average girl is by no means vitality interested
in such classification she is in what constitutes
perfectly good husband and if she is a wise Young