The Washington times., 1910-05-19

Washington something really worth
while TO talk about
The pnilosOph eIS-Whpever they are
have agreed. ! believe. that. deny il az
we may By word OF deed, after al, wc-
man is quite The most interesting thing
Ia the world. Since the first woman,
Pandora. came down out Of the heath
ems heavens into the worla anc opened
her box OF troubles, she has been the
center Of interest.
There IS more interest ia this one sub
teCt thar in all the rest OF the things
in the world, or that ever were IN the
world one would nave thought tla-
TIE ways Of stirring up interest IN this
sub ect would have been exhausted be-
fore now. bat here you come along with
a stunt which has set more sooer. re-
Hfctlre people 90 thinking and cauSe1
- The same time more hippant tongues
Ic WaE than anything any Wash
ll4St0n paper has printed in many a day.
] warrant
Of course 7 have read all the letters
you have printed. Most 81 chem /
read 10 large crowd at the dinner
sable, and ever one was intensely
interested.
Numbers Of stimulating ideas have
been let fall IN all this discussion
one Of the inevitable lessons TO be
drawn from any natural. cndistOrtec
cons'd erariou OF the subject is this
That there are IN human society
ev cry whcre two opposite and antago-
nlsIiC forces human sympathy and
social convention. Let me explain L
was taught 81 my youth % take of
my hat 20 every lady I met on the
street, o. ~ the road. for I was a fire.
Guenter q roads rather than streets as
q usual thinE-dnd it made no difference
whether 7 knew her or had been intro
euced 20 her or not
I have never been able, in spite oE
my coming 10 tie city. 10 get away
from tEe IDEA that there Is anybody Ia
the world anywhere man or woman. not
goo4 enough Tor me 70 speak 10 or 100
good 10 speak 20 me. 7 have never been
aDIe 40 comprehend the psychology or
that social law that two fellow beings
tn tlls world must have q third being
call the name OF each TO the other and
say 'let me introduce etc. before
those two fellow beings can say good
morning or good evening And SIM
more have I been unable TO figure oU1
why any human beng should object 10
going through with ti-is generally sense
less ceremony with any other human
0elnE unless, OF course, they have n24
a previous quarrel over the telephone,
u is all arTaut nonsense. and figure on
IT, II YOU uEIre rightly for q thousand
years and that Il ali YOU or any one else
can make Of e. And vet VOC and I Tn
sist and SIN VIII insist on the intro
dCc-io1- mainly because We each expect
that the other. in vulgar parianCe. Is a
II IT were the custom for every
body 70 speak 10 every body else on
the street there would not be an
array of mas1eEs On The street cor
Hfrs Waltfus 20 follow every Attractive
woman who shows the slightest sign
Of natural human sympathy.
The average Eood woman who walks
-u the streets no syaGays In any OF our
large towns IS actually afraid 10
breathe naturally lest some man take
&C. as q smile and follow her II would
not make haif so much difference as
she luagiues Or lie should follow he-
bIt 10 would De difficult 20 convince
her that % would not, because she has
been taught that 81 would make = tire
7l-uGDUs difference Now. the point IS
r-is- II we can ger out Of women g
heads the uoliOu that llev can De con
famma-ed by mere acquaintance with
any man OF woman unless they are
e5t1er wOffuilE weak or want 10 De
con ts minated, then most % the non
sense viii disappear from mems
heads I calculate that &c viii take
Us Just about 500 years more or civIlf-
zatiOu 10 get 10 that point. but we
each cen help things along a little By
being more natural Yours sincerely,
J :