The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-06
licenses. This tied the hands of the

licenses. This tied the hands of the
police and made their expulsion i'm
possible. Those who could not pre-
vail upon the wary "Chinks" to marry
them have been taken to Bellevue
Hospital in the hope of curing them.
The white men victims of the habit
have not been SO fortunate. The
bars lave been closed down tight
against them and they have been
notified that their presence in the
section will justify arrest. This is
the first real effort ever made to-
cleanse Chinatown Of one of its most
dangerous vices. To-date it has been
wonderfully effective.
The Most Honorable.
Are men more honorable. than
women
DECIDEDLY not" says DIR. Anna Glas-
gov, a brilliant club woman with a
large following Not since the day
when that pressing question of How
old is ANN" was first propoundet,
has such q vital interrogation set New
York clubdom on it's ears as has this
innocent 1.-THE query. With the cards
seemingly stacked in hopeless array
against the men, Mrs. Oliver HEREFORD,
the clever wife Of the popular author
and dramatist has come. to the rescue
of the helpless genus homo.
Why" she said yesterday, 81 al
ways agree when a man tells me that
women are less honorable, less truth
full, less trustworthy than the mem
bers Of his own sex. I think we are
all these things. Aud l think it's a
great mercy for the men.
1T is mans wonderful sense of
honor that gets him into half his trou.
bles. 1t is our common sense that
pulls him out.
Women are naturally tactful. Tact
and truthfulness are frequently COM
PEELED to seek a divorce for mutual
incompatibility. And women are al
ways on the side of tact.
"One thing I've noticed, and that
is, that women are rather more hon.
orable toward each other than they
arc toward men, I think there are
several reasons for that. In the first
place, of course, women can deceive
women less easily. They know what
to expect. hen each woman can
tell her own lies-they don't have to
lie out of kindness for each other
as they have to lie for their men folk
Then, of course, there's the element
of self-protection. which frequently
enters into the attitude toward the op
posite sex. And, finally, men like
women to lie to them. The first law
OF acquaintance, friendship, love
any sort of social intercourse between
man and woman--is for the woman to
keep the man guessing. Didn't the
wisest poet endow his miShtiest siren
with-inf1nite variety?
Men like to be cajoled and wheed
led and managed, provided it's done
with proper art. Suppose we were
frank and 'outspoken' and said, You
do this You don't do that?' The men
would be unhappy and SO would We
for we shouldn't get what We wanted
The verbal broomstick is as bad pol
icy as the material one ..
Sometimes, too, I've fancied that
men enjoyed women's lies because
we're so much more clever at 1.-The
business than they, poor things! We
are really artistic, and they make
such a botch of it! Though it isn't
for lack Of practice >" she added
musingly.
.The unusually accepted definition
among men seems to mean the literal
brutal, hope-I-may-die truth in every
detail, on every occasion --'~~ '+'c
going to make the most trouble. And
the results Of this superlative verac
ity vary from break" at the dinner
table to break in our international
peace treaty. Why just patching UP