El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-21
Curiosity Is COmmendabIe
Women Are Long On Ii, but So Also
Were the DISCOVERIES of the
Worlds Useful Things.
By Dorothy Dix :

By Dorothy Dix
A SCIENTIST has been laboriousIy
~ expla' ming that woman stands
on a lower plane in evolution
than man does, and is therefore pnysi-
cally and mentally his inferior. He
says that structurally woman IS
closer akin to our great. great era nd
papa the babOOn, than man, and that
she also betrays her nearer relation
snip TO the monkey by possessing the
superabundant curiosity that is char
, acteristic of the simian tribe
For these reasons he thinks that
orangoutanSs and women should not
be permitted TO vote.
on, 1 don't know.
When a man wants to offer a blight
ing criticism on feminiuity he always
makes a few scathing remarks about
curiosity, yet curiosity is the BEGIN
ming of wisdom, and the hall mark Of
an active mind
The first cave man who noticed
that when he rubbed two sticks to-
Sether the friction produced warmth
ana VINO had the curiosity to keen
on rubbing the sticks together. gave
US ire The first woman who had
the curiosity TO see what would happen
when you put raw meat On the fire
gave US cooking.
The first man who was curious to
know what lay beyond his immediate
nelghbOrhoOd blaZed the trail that
If Newton had not been curious he
would never have discovered the law
of gravitatiOn- If Jenner had not
been curious he would not have found
out about the circulation of the blood.
II Fulton had not been curious he
would never have bothered his head
with the wild idea that a steamboat
could be made to run up a river at
speed of four miles an hour.
If Edison wasn't one of those most
curious men in the world we might
not be able to sit at home and listen
10 CarusN sing out of a little box in
the corner, or to speak to our friends
across the continent over a dinky little
wire
Curiosity is the dividing line be
tween ignorance and knowledge The
people who have no curiosity concern
ing the things about them are in
NaraDly those OF limited intelligence.
Inc contention that women are more
curious than men is an allegation thar
cannot be subStantiated by fact but if
1t were true it would be no reflection
IN the FEMININE character, and GER
fanny no par TO their enfranChiSement
Perhaps the fear of Woman's curfos-
lty IN such matters is the reason the
machlne politicians are the most de-
termlned opponents of the wOman's
suffrage They are like the ianitor Of
the school who. when he was asked
now ne liked the woman who had been
elected to the school board. replfed.
AW, away wild heri She hadn't been
on Dat board a week before she was
shopping around in the cellar and
made me clean it out, and me that had
been here Is years with never no man
on the school board ever looking i'm
at the door,
Certainly it would do no harm II
somebody had the curiosity to look
into the records of candidates and saw
that only decent men were put up to
represent decent people
Oh there ar a ~ 90 +t,f A.,
1t wouldn't hurt US to be curious
about, and if women bring this quail
lty into politics they will fill a IoD-
Ielt want There'u have to be some
woman the vote than her desire "a
know things