Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-29
JEAN ALNERE TNFLATTERINGLY ANSWERS. "lF THERE REALLY WERE \ MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMAN HE WOULD COMMIT SUICIDE ON THE SPOT"
By La ReconteuSe).
Special Cable from the International
 News Servlce).

News Service).
 Paris, Sept. 2S.-When Frenchman have nothing better to do and some times too, when they might employ their time to better advantage. they discuss women. The subject is al ways interesting and when the well known French author and journalist, Hugues le RouX, the other day asked his readers to reply to the question, What man really understands wo man?' he knew what he was doing. The replies that have been sent to the paper, in which he raised the question, he tells me run into thousands every day and has convinced him that most men at least here in Paris imagine that they possess the secret of under standing us and are entitled to speak with the authority of experts.
 Many of the replies bear the sig natures Of famous men but none is more categorical and less flattering than the one signed Jean Alvere, which reads thus: If there really were d man who understood woman he would commit suicide on the spot
 X Scandinavian woman writer, whose book the Dangerous Age be- came famous all over the world, i'll her work gave horrible description of her sex, but when We read it we Consoled ourselves with the thought that though what she said might be true of her own country-Women, the cap surely did fit us and we felt con- vinced that our male friends and ad- mirers agreed with us. Alas. Jean Alvere has shattered that Illusion. and who says now that there are not hun d.cds of our own Countrymen who share his opinion though they lack the coura less 1t.
 It SC pat the time has come tG ltO this more or less bril criticism of us poor Womcn. a. U. We always had plenty of objections to make to our character, we are used to hearing about our garrulousness, our vanity, our lack of logic, our eagerness to please, our insincerity and goodness knows what not. But after all, is it 1 then the fault of woman if Nature has not endowed her with all the superior i qualities Of man? If man would eX- ert himself little and make use of
 these superior qualities he would soon see that he really ought to De thankful to woman for all the trouble she goes to for his sake. She chatters i that he may not feel lonesome or bored, she dresses up to please him to give him something beautiful to look at, she is illogical that she may not get into conflict with his logic she tries to please, that his male friends may envy him the possession of her, she is insincere because she tries to avoid telling him unpleasant u uLiio. LII OHO WoIu aiA ilNl oCllOu1 aer dictated by the same motive-she tries to please him.
 So now if man has really any sense he will give up all this harping on our shortcomings, for if he does not he may cause us to change and if we did he might find that he liked us still less than he pretends to do now and have to do as the rude Jean Alvere says the man had better do who understands woman.
 / Countess TarnOwska.
 If anyone wants to get glimpses of the inmOst soul of Countess Tarnow- ska, I can recommend him nothing better than to read her memoirs which the Journal is publishing and which increase in interest from day to day Nothing like these memoirs has been written forages and in my opinion they rank far above The Dangerous Age and are equal at least to the memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff.
 She tells of her first innocent youth and how she married Vassili Tarnow- ska, handsome, magnetic debauchos against the will of her family. He