The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-16

sole survivor of a once proud sex
The gifted American lady lifted the
veil OF Isis and spake the following
words of gloomy wisdom:
1T is mistake to suppose that
vampires are bats or mythical things
There are human vampires and We
meet them daily. Are not Carnegie and
Rockefeller vampires of finance? isn't
Paderwiski a vampire. and wasn't
Sarasate vampire2 And why? Be
cause every woman leaves n Paderwis-
XII or Sarasate concert exhausted com
pletely vamperized."
Consciously or unconsciously, Miss
Beveridge has adopted one of George
Bernard shaw's doctrines, which he
expounds in Man and Superman". II
is the eccentric dramatist's belief that
men of genius are woman's greatest
enemies. They exploit her emotions for
the sake of acquiring artistic expe-
riences, material that can be worked
into fiction, poetry, play, painting,
opera or other form of expressing
human feeling. Masculine genius, ac.
cording to Shaw, levles heavy con.
tributions upon women. and instead
of being used by them, as the ma
jority of mankind are, uses them with
out scruple and with an insight into
their wiles and fascinations that
renders the man of genius immune,
converts him into what
Miss Beveridge would call a vampire.
He reverses the order of nature and
only feels in order that he may know
whereas the ordinary man knows,
when he does really know anything
about women, in order that he may
feel. Mr.. Shaw represents the average
man as a dear, good fathead, who
was made to be the prey of any
woman who thinks it worth her while
to pick him up and run him into the
probate office, where he will buy a
marriage license in the full conviction
that he has bagger the game, instead
Of realizing that the game has bag
sed him and is laughing in her sleeve
1T his conceit and simplicity. The So
'ialist playwright depicts woman as a
mighty huntress before the Lord, and
$ pretty we'll convinced that Mrs
limrod knew a thing or two about the
lse of the bow and arrow and the
pear that MIN, as the neighbors
'alled him had never learned.
Although somewhat cynical, Mr..
Shaw ID, at bottom, a kindly soul, and
ne warned all women against men OF
genius, as their natural enemies. A
nan of artistic genius is a monstrosity
who can understand a woman as an
'ther woman would understand her,
Who at the same time possesses a
more than ordinary masculine power
o make her miserable and keep her
Miss Beverldge pushes this
heory a step farther and turns great
rtists into vampires who use music
md 1t might as Wen be literature or
he dramatic exhaust poor women
md leave her wailing for vanished
larmonies. We shall not enter into
md defense of Mr.. Andrew Carnegie
md Mr.. John d. Rockefeller. They
ire vampires of another sort, and have
been vampires so long and so con
that their evil propensities
ire known to all. Besides, their VIC
Inns are, in the main, men. Occasion
lily, a wealthy widow may be robbed
is a relish, but high finance is essen
tally game for men only.
1t Is Miss Beveridge who claims our
attention and not such bad and blood
hirsty bats as Cousin Andrew and
Jncle John. She explains her great
'iece OF statuary in these words: my
roup isn't meant to be symbolic un-
ess 1t symbolizes love, showing that
nan takes all; woman gives every
hing. I've tried to show the real
uman vampire with a mans desire
assion and thirst for woman's love.
nd the woman who gives all even
o the last drop of blood, and, in her
finds it exquislt pain
to maddening ecstacy"
After all, Miss Beveridges sym.
'olic victim seems to get a good deal
{ satisfaction out of being vampire.
d. although ecstacy may be Just as
ard on the nerves as coffee, or
trong tea. There appears to be this
Inference between Mr.. Shaw and Miss
'everidge: She seems disposed to make
1en in general vampires, as far as
somen are concerned. He thinks the