The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
noss sDver the Nuts and Wine \:
By FRANCES coURTENAY BAYLOR

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for eliminating man the brute. maj
| the tyrant, man the mere soldier, maj
the exploded superstition, Will not al
| be appreciated. In one Of the State
| of this Union matters have alread!
| been so arranged by woman that n,
| man In n certain town can get drinl
| without a certificate signed by twenty
I Ave respectable, married women ant
yet he growls there with Dig, DIE
| D." He is a man. He likes to keel
Of his own actions. Ge does not wan
to be taken even to heaven by tht
scrun OF the neck nolens volens. III
| has a perfectly justiiiable suspicion
| that he ought to be kicked out Of y
| again, if he could be. He knows thai
II is perfectly possible for n man tc
take a moderate number of connections
| he calls "snifters," and wine with his
! dinner like a gentleman all his Ire
without being lost wretch, villain
or curse to the community. He dis:
likes to be Immediately so classified
when he is taking an innocent glass
Of beer on hot day. He Keeps MS
common sense; he sees that the abuse
of anything Is no argument against
its proper use; and he is ike lion
knows that woman has got pocket
full of lariats for him, and is on MS
trail--the religious, sentimental, poet
ical. domestic, social and Puritan ones
will all be thrown over his head, ana
the fatal final jerk given before nc
and he has deep. dark, secret, terri
BILE fear that he hides from all but
the heart that loves him best while
he keeps up appearances and goes
about his business. as usual. day by
day. 1t is that the men of the future
will never be allowed to drink any
thing but Postum.
no~rlNsa View
Saunders McWhurr was a canny
Scot. and he thus delivered his mind
on the subject: The ALMIGHTY. in His
wonderful Providence, made mony Gu
rious things: but name o. them SO
queer and SO contrary as the weemen.
The propaganda of the day is so ener-
getic that soon no man will take the
least pleasure in shaving. AS he looks
in the glass he will see reflected there
man as painted by woman, In lamp
black, with big brush; man the igno-
rant. man the vicious, man the feeby
the brute. man the bigot man the sot,
man the imbecile, man the tyrant. man
the beast. man the child destroyer,
man the perfect failure. doomed to
extinction; and he will stop whistl1ng,
and handle even safety razor nerv-
ously, as one who doubts his right TO
cumber the earth and poison the ar
breathed by woman any longer, turn
pale, dress in great detection. sneak
downstairs and meekly breakfast on
a bath nit and drink the cup that
neither cheers nor inebriates, uplit.su
table. behind his cups and saucers
thankful that he is not yet IN soil
tary confinement, that he stlll mas
friends. q club, bank account. a
chance to propitiate the powers that
he. the angel of the house--a very
different angel from the adorlng. ten,
der, indulgent old-fashioned anger
that Coventry Patmore sang OF; the
pretty, sweet, early Victorian wife
that every man weakly prefers W
woman, the amazonian reformer, the
high handed, Grating, voting scoldins,
short-haired, brick-batuns, plooiilei
clad moral policeman.
Many brlny tear will be shed If al
this rank subversive nonsense is not
nipped in the bud. for the days when
she was only mother" wife, "daugh-
ter"-not woman, setting herself up
teaching kindergarten methods and
morals to the men, who invented and
applied and have used all the civic
virtues and domestic graces OF the
world for thousand years past, Two
or three. or four thousand. indeed.
regulated, 1 know. but it is going to
pail some day upon the men. And
when it does, they will certainty upset
the apple cart. The swish of the shil-
lelagh OF nan the brute will GER
tainly be heard in the land when he
gets tired of living in topsy -turvey-
dom, or perhaps he will only quietly
say to woman: MY dear, you hava
been attempting the impossible. par
don my saying so, but you Will have
to step down and indoors. And we
Will do a.. ..e regulating and reform.
ing and speechifying and voting that
Is necessary"
Quals mater:
Tails fila.
If such progress has already been
made in this country Cwhere women
have been queening it royalty ever
indulged and pampered and deferred to
and consulted as they are nowherc
else on earth) in disappearing and
belittlinE and scorning tho very men
prestige upon, and burnt all this in
cense before tn seX-a fact which
makes comical eGding of the charges
brought against th>>m-what In heaYr
ems name will cehtury produce am
call a woman ma. It will GER
GEOLOGY for us all Very likely in 2010
young gallants WILDE sporting NUTS
and parasols and using cosmetics Law
ishly in order to commend themselves
W Woillftu--iie slcIIleT sun LOT Hldt-
tiers have yet to be adjusted somehow.
n modus vivendi arrived Mt, by both
parties They will doubtless have
chaperons be allowed pin money, be
subject to cu.few laws, prefer not to
vote take up Berlin wool work ac-
lively and form societies for the pro-
motion of nice ladylike men. Muscle
will be considered vulgar. Great
height or unusual strength will mean
police surveillance. and be regarded as
dangerous and suspicious" Masonic
and other lodges. will be construed as
"inimical to the peace and welfare or
the, state" and be abolished after some
feeble opposition on the part of the
hen. Medals will be granted the ia
Their who has distinguished himself In
cooking, for needlework Gall his wife's
clothes), meekness and respectful de-
pertinent to woman; an adherence Of
days out; power and patience In
pushing perambulators, perfect recog-
milton of mans proper place, as SUP
deputy, vice assistant and slave to wo.
man. o. but we have glad golden
age coming. All the Offices in the
country will be held by woman: all the
laws Will be made, but not obeyed, by
woman. Here and there above a con-
qucred and submerged world will be
found primeval man, doing as he
pleases and going his own way unreg-
ulateds but he, too, will vanish in time
and leave not a vestige Of what was
once great institution. Somebody
will paint Il great picture for the ben
eft of posterlty, and call it THE Last
Man." and it will be bought by a black
woman President and hung on tho