El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-26
Dorothy Dir On The fr, Ethics Of

HR. EMIL REICH has been lam
= basting American women again
- in a London paper. He says
that they have no "pectoral momen-
tum' and that they know nothing OF
love or friendship, and that is why
they are guilty of the heinous sin OF
flirting
The charge that American women
are human icicles has been made so
long that nobody thinks of seriously
refuting it any more. All foreigners
enjoy a happy faith in believing in that
superstition Just as our fancy delights
in painting every Italian woman as a
languiShing- eyed beauty, and clothing
every Spanish woman in lace man
tiua and picturing her as spending her
time gracefully smoking cigarette or
dancing. the tarentella-
OF course, a closer acquaintance dis
closes the fact that not all Italian
ladies are beautiful, nor do they even
ell have dark eyes, and that the Span
ish donnas wear straight fronts and
hobble skirts, or whatever is the fash
ion of the moment, and are exceedingly
busy with their tables and their house
keeping. instead of rafting castanets.
Likewise a real investigation into
the physiology and psychology OF the
American women would disclose that
blood instead of ice water, and that
she can run as high a temperature and
have as great "a pectoral momentum
as any Of her sisters Of other national
tiles when the right man comes along
She Has Lived Her Love.
If DR.. Reich and the other critics of
the American woman want TO know
whether she can love or not, they
should take account of the women who
have followed their men into the will
derness; who have left every comfort
Of civilization to brave the hardships
of frontier life; who have lived in
Shacks and dugOuts on the prairies
and lean-tos in mining camps; who
have gone down into the valley of the
shadow when they bore their children
with no chance of medical help, and
often even without another woman to
minister to them, and who did all of
this gladly and unrepiningly for the
sake of the men they loved.
And these women left behind them
other women who in a different way,
are daily giving the same exhibition
of how they can love. There are tens
Of thousands of women in America to-
day who are offering up their very
lives on the altar Of their husbands
success, who are killing themselves by
inches toiling and saving and scrimp-
ing to push forward their husbands
fortunes and who patiently and humb-
" efface themselves not to mar their
husbands glory or to block their hus-
bands progress.
Hath any woman greater love than
this?
AS for flirting. the difference be-
tween the American woman and the
European is that the American woman
does her flirting before marriage, as
usual thing, and the European wom-
an does hers afterwards. Marriage in
itiates the European woman into the
love game. but in SO times out of 100
when an American woman is married
she throws down her cards and drops
out of the game. To her way of think
ing she has won the prize, and there
is nothing more to play for
Naturally, human nature being what
it is, there are always people who will
get hurt in any game. There are
clumsy people who will break their
necks falling over their own golf
clubs; reckless fools who will bet their
pile on pair Of deUces; serious people
who viii bring nervous prostra ton on
themselves in over-indulgence in ping
pong and tiddledewinks Hence there
are those so blind and stupid that they
cannot distinguish between real love
and playing at love, and those may oc-
casionally suffer some heart injury
from the effects of a filtration
Advantages of Flirting.
Taking it by and large, however, and
taking out the flirting exhibition as