Arizona republican., 1911-04-02
JUST GUESS WHO GossIPS.
Women? Hardly, They Never Do It
 The Men Are the Guilty Ones.

| frage organizations admit they like men very much, but-they do gossip | frightfully, they are vain about their clothes, they take all the mirror per | quisites in subways and elevators, | they say nasty. spiteful little things ! about their men friends and tell their | wives all the latest news about wO- | men which they have just heard at | the club, and, furthermore. they do all they can to induce women to be | cynical at the expense of their closest | friends. says Theodora Bean in the
 New York Evening Telegram.
 | It was really mans fault that his whole sex is riddled by indignant and | protesting womanhoOd. When Prof. | Edward Howard Griggs. with simple | eloquence told the members of the | Equal Franchise Society, of which | Mrs Mackey is president. at the last meeting of the association for this year. that three-fourths of the gos- | sip in the world Is peddled by wo- | men, and the way to stop the gos- | siping is to educate women so that | they have other and wider interests. | he awoke Mrs. Frederick Nathan, an | officer in the society. to a retort. When women meet at their clubs | they have other and more important
 things to talk about than gossip" she said. If Professor Griggs should go ! to some of their meetings he would | find the members of the clubs dis | cussing civics, politics. education, art philanthropy or literature, without a hint of gossip. And I should like to
 ask Professor Griggs what the men ..rb. cff ha1 ha In windows looking out on the process sion of women are talking about?" Professor Griggs actually did not
 pretend to know, but there were plenty of women about New York who spoke for him. Did they know2 Not one admitted there was any mys- tery at all about it. The men, they agreed, were gossiping, getting ma
 terial with which to entertain other
 men friends and enlighten their own
 wives. Supposing a woman occasion
 ally repeats it, she surely cannot be
 identified with its origin nor respon-
 sible for its results.
 Do I think women gossip more
 than mem" asked Mrs. John Francis
 Yawger, the Daughter of the Amer
 ican Revolution. Then she proceeded:
 T certainly do not. Men are the
 greatest gossips in the world. They chatter about women's clothes and
 figures; they stand in club windows
 in order to see the procession of
 feminine frocks and hats. and when they go away from the windows and
 sit down they talk about their clothes. for they are the vainest things in the world They review also the women they have seen in the promenade and recite all they have heard about them. while at the womens clubs We do serious work We don't hang out the windows and talk about the fit of a mans coat nor the size or his ankles and ask ourselves why fat faced man wears a natty little yacht ing cap when a derby would be vast ly more becoming. Neither do we say he ought to be home having tea with his wife"
 The young secretary of the Wom- ems Political Union, Miss Alberta Hill, almost frowned when the ac- cusation against women was brought to her will women ever gossip as much as mem" she asked herself Anyhow not until the vote is won but women never have.
 'I wish you had heard some men talk as I have" she declared. looking thoughtfully back over her twenty years of existence. At public meet ings I have heard men say, after some speaker had finished. He's not crazy about himself. not at all; hes just lit up with the gallery play: or they say. Hes too fat to wear frock coat. but of course you couidn tell him, because he believes all the women come here just to look at him.
 And for the army. the men thrive on gossip and know every intimate detail in the lives of their brother officers. Men don't exactly like to boast. that is. real men don't; they
 simply want to pretend to be very
 manly. and so they fancy they are subtle One army officer told me
 he got forty valentines. And have
 you also noticed that men draw you |