El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
Woman Often Superior
Fails in Certain Particulars, But In
the Long Run Woman Exeels
in Many Ways.
nv DOrOfhy Dix.
: By DOrOthy DIX
CORRESPONDENT writes;

~ "WiH you please discuss the
A subject. rs Man Superior to Wo-
man. A neighbor of mine, for
eigner, contends that man is superior
to woman. He holds that he is Tar
superior to his wife. yet she does twice
as much work as he does. She runs
both his home and his store, and 1t Is
her energy and intelligence tnat nave
made his business a success
To argue about whether woman IS
superior to man, or man is superior to
woman, is as futile as to discuss Whe-
Their winter is better than summer, OF
rain or sunshine is more advantage
Gus to growing crops.
Each eXcels in certain particulars
each fails in certain respects, and both
are necessary to make up humanity;
Take them by and large, and men and
women are cut off of pretty much the
same piece of goods
Majority of Men Think Man Superior.
Undoubtedly a vast majority of men
believe, on insufficient evidence, tnat
they are far superior to women, ana
that the mere accident OF sex IS a sort
of genius in itself, so that anybody VINO
is entitled to wear trousers is by rea-
son of that fact more Intelligent. with
a broader vision and a saner Judgment
than even the most gifted creature
doomed by nature to skirts.
A few women also hold this view,
scribe to it because experience has
taught them that man is woman's Su-
periOr in at least one quality-Vanlty.
They have found out that the easiest
way to work a man is to sit at ms
feet and watt him hot air, and tell
him how big, and wise, and strong,
and handsome he is. and what a poor,
miserable worm Of the dust mere fe-
male is.
1t is these cheerful workers among
women, aided and abetted by the fact
that the law gives man the right TO
rule over women, and until lately has
given him also her property, that has
fostered mans belief in his superiority
to woman.
But why. goodness only knows. be-
cause it is woman who takes care OF
man at every stage of the game Many
big and successful man is really
little inferior man made by superior
woman.
of course. men are superior to wo-
men in certain respects. \ man for
instance, is stronger than woman He
has bigger bones, more muscle. The
average man can lift his wife with one
hand. But il is the woman who stands
an IS hour wOrkday, devoted to the
most mOnotOnOus labor on earth,
strain under which any man would
break down, or take to drink.
Where Woman EXeeIs.
It is the weak mother who can nurse
a fretful. teething baby month after
month; who can be up with it half OF
the night, and in times of sickness hold
it in her arms for a week at time
without getting nervous prostrations-
Any Sunday taking care of the chill
dren on the nurses afternoon off leaves
an able-bOdied man worn to fragile
Men have greater physical endurance
than women. Yet any doctor will tell
You which bears pain better, man or
a woman. Let man get a tOOthache,
OF headache, and he bowls to heaven
- 4 7raa
nurses and everybody in the family to
be on the jump waiting on him, while
there are thousands and thousands of
women who never draw a breath that
uncomplainingIy about their daily du-
ties without even mentioning how they ,
feel.
which Is More Brave.
Men are Drawer than women. There
are even women who are afraid or
mice. but every woman who bears a
child goes smilingly forth to look into
the face of death by torture Only the
exceptional man ever has his courage
put to the test that practically every
doesn't finch they call him a hero, but
courage is so common that we
never notice it.
And women have far more moral |
than men Men are AFRAID of
shame, of ridicule, of having the finger |
of scorn pointed at them. A man turns |
a diSgraced daughter out of doors. He !
divorces a drunken wife, but a woman |
stands by her own no matter how low
they fall It is women, and not men, |
who are waiting outside of the PEN !
tertiary doors to take the freed convict I
home
Men are the financiers o fthe world, !
but the average woman can make a |
dollar go twice as far as a man can (
when it comes to spending, and in !
those families where the wife is the |
cashier you will nearly always find |
A man is the official head of the
family, yet it is men who desert their /
little children and leave them to starve I
1t is men who cammit suicide when life /
gets over hard. You hardly ever hear |
of a woman abandoning her helpless :
little children to the cold mercy of the /
world.
Men Have More Genius Than Women. {
Undoubtedly men have displayed |
more genius than women. They have I
written the big books, painted the I
great pictures, made the marvellous in /
yet what man has ever done /
anything so wonderful as the creation |
Of a man, A woman does that. Great /
men seldom beget great sons, but every 4
great man has had a great mother.
If 1t is any pleasure to a man TO !
think he is superior to his wife, let /
him enjoy it. She, and generally the /
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