The Washington herald., 1912-02-19
By JULIA CHANDLER MANI.

valued letters on vital questions, and
discussed them so ably that am going
90 take a back seat this morning while
you read some Of the good letters that
have recently come to me.
Thinks Dorothy Dix Wrong.
Here is an exception taken to the
articles by Dorothy Dix on "wOman's
lack OF pride:''
my Dear Mrs. Manz:
IT cannot share Miss Dix's tLt:.--iIy'
veiled contempt for my sex and for the
qualities whicn distinguish II. 1t is true
that many women lack the masculine
aggressiveness which Miss Dix admires
and would have us take as a model,
but we have still to unlearn the dictum
Of the laureate, Woman is not unde-
veloped man. but divers We have our
own standard irrespective of the msscu-
line model Imitation is now ever the
sincerest hattery.
'T should think every male member
of the human race must feel q little
taller and at least an inch broader in
the chest when he sees 5 per cent Of
the female sex at least (were not those
Mayor Gaynor's fguresO humbly imitat-
Ing his clothes, the cut of his hair, his
walk, his manner Of sitting horse, his
cigar, his belligerant methods, even in
some cases his morals; aud now Miss
Dix counsels them to study his manner
OF love-mailng.
TT must all be very gratifying to the
eternal masculine, even though it leads
to the development of a certain shy
Rloofness on their Part such as Miss Dix
indicates. 1t would seem, indeed, that
when Kathleen Brown becomes bold as
the hawk poor Rory O'More is forced
by circumstances to be soft as the
dawn in spite Of his beard and GER
tain squareness Of the shoulders. There
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demand for all that men have and are,
and do except their responsibilities and
their hardships.
Proud women create their own role.
There is something particularly syco-
phantish in all this mimicry OF mans
methods. 1 fail to see that woman's
pride would be increased by putting IL
in her, pocket, as Miss Dix naively sug-
"A DIssENTER-" /"
Concerning the Problem Play.
Here are two Of the many comments
sent ne on my talk with you the other
morning on THE moral nausea Of the
problem play
MY dear Mrs. Manz:
Permit one who has drunken deeply
NJ Hfe's cup of sorrow to thank you for
1ser -eII-timed article in The
IT-s- G. ea-a.-H problem plays in
g7-
30 far more harm
rae- .Ha public dreams not
-iHrr asr I young girls and
ce and faith. but
they nrrniy p.z- ne masculine mind
the false belief that a man is morally a
law unto himself.
Would to God our women would unite
in the endeavor to Danish all such plays
from the theaters here.
The second letter reads:
fMy dear Mrs. Manz:
In reading your article in The Herald
on the Problem Play and the two sets
OF morals for man and woman, I could
not help thinking that woman is quite
as responsible for the two sets Of morals
as she is for the success OF the problem
Plays of which you speak.
You say every woman begins at the |
cradle to make her daughter understand
the difference between her own and her
brothers code of morals. To my way of
thinking that is where the mother makes
her mistake Why teach the child any
difference? Man did not set the standard
for woman. She set it for herself and
has taught man through all the genera
tions to. expect her to live up to the |
highest and best that is in her. She has
also taught the man that though he sin |
seventy times seven she will forgive him |
TT is not the man who makes the \
woman who sins an outcast. It is |
woman who compels her to remain an |
outcast no matter how great her re-
pentance. And it is also the woman |
who will extend the first helping hand |
and do all in her power to reclaim the |
fallen man, even though he is not re- |
pentant she will endeaYor to make him |
think that he is.
$50 long as women do this man will |
continue to degrade them while he holds |
another to the straight and narrow path. |
II woman set a higher standard for man |
he would live up to it.
1T is for the mother to begin at the /
cradle and teach her boys and girls the |
same code of morals; to set the same
standard for them she has set for her
self. She should teach her boys that 4
If they sin they must pay the price. |
She should teach her girls to demand |
this of them.
TT is only because mothers teach or
allow others to teach their children that |
boy may take more liberties than his /
sister, so long as he can keep his sins
hidden from the world, that boys grow
into manhood with this belief, and when /
he has sown his wild oats he selects /
the purest, sweetest girl for his wife. /
and the girl, because her mother has
taught her to do so, will pardon him
Practices What She Preachea.
Il am the mother OF two boys and one
girl. and I have taught them all alike.
I have taught my boys that they must
bring their wives as much purity as
they demand Of them. I am teaching my
daughter to demand as clean a record |
from the man she marries as the one
she gives to him.
IF all mothers would do this there
would in time cease to be two sets of
morals, and men and women would be
living under the one law God made for
both.
Men are only little boys grown lit
tie bigger and a little older. but just as
much depending on Woman's influence
as when they were children. Women
can mold them at will
As mothers. We are training the child
mind and can instill into it our own
ideas and ideals, and If in after years
our children do deviate from the right
track there win always be that early
home teaching to restrain them and In
huence them back into the right path
Ny boys will soon be men, and do
not know what the result Of my teach
ing VIII be, but I am not afraid II
have done my best and am content to
leave the rest with God. who viii de-
mand the same from the man and the
woman.
"A THoUSHTFuL MOTHER"
An Appreciation.
Dear Mrs. Manz:
Your woman's page is by far the best
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