El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-12
Passing Of Miss fearful
Woman Is Ceasing to Weep-They
Realize that NO Man Wants TO
BE Sailed Down In Brine.
- DO.
ny DofOtAs DIX


n NE Of the most interesting and
significant phases of the evo-
luton Of woman is that she is
ceasing to weep. I don't know how
science explains it, but 1t is a self
evident fact that every observing
person must have noted that as wO-
men have developed backbone their
tear duets have dried up.
Time was, and not so long ago,
when the very name of the feminine
sex was synonymous with crying. IL
was WOman's hereditary destiny to
weep, just as it was mans TO work.
and she did what was expected Of
her by sitting down and bowling
whenever she came up against any o.
the hard propositions Of life
In poetry a pearly drop. that makes
a blue eye look like a violet drowned
in dew, gathers slowly and rolls
gently down the alabaster cheek, and
the man goes down before It. In
everyday life the woman who Weeps
gets red-eyed, her nose swels and she
locks purple and apOplectic, ana the
Tlan gets up, and slams the door be-
hind him, and goes downtown until
the water spout is over.
They Wept Too Much.
The trouble with WOmen's tears in
the past has been that they Wept too
much, and in the wrong way A tear
as a tear is as Ineffective as any
other drop Of salt water, yet people
make the mistake Of reTerencing 1t as
perform some kind Of a miracle
You might weep over a starving
family until you shed an ocean OF
tears. yet it wouldn't keep them rom
perishing OF hunger Nothing else on
earth is so plentiful and cheap and
useless as tears. but until they arc
hacked up with good deeds and money
LObOdy has a right TO attempt to sus-
tain a reputation for charity on
them Plenty Of people do. I have
seen women sit up IN IaS nlonaDle
Handkerchief all through a charity
sermon and then drop plugged nickel
into the contribution plate
had a friend once who lost her
money and who thereafter did moth
ing but weep What shall I dOE' she
Grmanded. 7 shall starVe- IF YOU
would put in as much time and energy
1ICpplng floor as you DO hopping
vC1r eyes. YOU could make fortune as
4 charwOman" I answered. brutally-
She never fOrgave me People never
do when you tell them the truth
Sometimes 7 amuse myself by sepe-
ulating on what an Improvement u
would be il mothers wept less over
their wayward children and spanked
Shameful Tears
Sentimentalists nave embalmed 2
mothers tears in song and story, ana
made them sacred. but I tell you the
tears a mother sheds over an IL
raised son or daughter are shameful
There should be no cause for them
end there would be no cause Tor IneIn.
once in a million times IL she had
done her duty.
1t has also appeared to me THAI
women have wasted quite an unnec-
essary amount Of tears on tnelr aus
bands For thousand generations
wives have chung to the theory that a
man could be Wept into an the
virtues OF the beatitude. When 4
woman had a drunken husband she
opened the door for him in the early
hours Of the morning. and DedeWed
Efn with her tears When she had a
brutal one. she wept when he mis-
treated her. but she fOrgave him and
let him 90 on doing It Men don't
v-eaD suv over women They make
their wives behave themselves. or
else they haul them up before the
divorce court. and that's why the per
ccntage Of good conduct is 50 largely
in favor Of the fair sex, and women
might wen copy their example
Anyway YOU look at il, il is hope
fuI sign women have abandoned doing
the baby act