New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-31
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English Doctor Calls Modern
Women SavageS.
"DEFICIENT IN LOGIC"
But" He Admits, They Can
Stand Pain Much Better
than Men Can"
IRON Tn. Tribune Correspondent. ]

From The Tribune Correspondent
London, Aug "a recent statement by
a scientific authority that the higher types
OF savages have embarrassIngly rich Ian
guages and are gifted takers has led
THE Daily Mirror 20 inquire into how
far women have advanced ON savsgery.
a we'll known d,ctor in reply 10 tho
query said
"a man may tiat. but a woman only
chatters. savages chatter all day long,
mostly about nothing, The higher type
OF savage is particularly rich in his lam
guage. So is the higher type OF civilized
woman You cannot restrain either type
both must have their way.
Women are born takers. And (, is
somewhat signihcan, that girl babies
usually speak much sooner than boy
babies. That women are more children OF
nature and less highly civilized than men
is fact accepted by most alienists and
psychologists In the first place, women
are VIGOROUSLY deficient In logic. Now.
the ability TO draw deductions from logic
and to be actuated by such logical deduc-
tons is the chief point OF difference be-
tween civilized and unciyilized man.
The untutored savage weeps when he
Is sad and laughs when he is glad. being
affected by no restraining influences.
Women in their relative ability 10 control
superficial emotions again show that they
have not advanced as far from primitive
ways as have men.
Another way in which women show
that they are less affected than men by
so-called modern civilization is their
greater ability 10 endure severe physical
pain. Every doctor with any hospital
experience will agree that women pa
tients show greater stoicism in accspt-
ing excruciating pain than do male pa
tents.
In this greater stoicism. as we'll as
In the freer play, they give TO the easily
aroused emotions Of vanity, pleasure,
sorrow and jealousy, women show that
their progress out OF their native
sayagery has not kept pace with mans
The following are some of the chief
points which are said 10 prove that
woman has still much of the savage in
her composition:
Lack OF self-restraint, love OF self
decoration. inordinate vanity, inherent
cruelty, love OF bright colors, wants at
once what attracts her. word not 10 DO
relied upon, will lie without hesitation
and without thinking OF the consequences,
easily pleased and depressed.
Walter VI. Gallichan, the author OF
Modern Woman and How to Manage
Her has some strong remarks TO make
about womens savagery. Woman's be-
lief, according TO him. Is that she must
be cunning and deceitful. mean. selfish,
and cruel II she is 10 prevail
Nothing" he says. can excel the cal
lous ard malignant cruelty which second
wives often display In their treatment OF
children by the first wife. There are
innumerable records OF beating burning
and mutilatlng children which might lead
US TO believe that gentle sex and "a
mothers love are merely poetic figures
OF speech"
And, according TO Mr.. Gallichan. woman
is no clumsy tyrant. On the contrary.
she has carried her cruelty down until II
becomes almost fine art. Unlike man.
her cruelty is not "a short madness" but
is "thoughtfully planned and deliberately
carried through"
"A bruise on the flesh is nothing" he
continues; "a wound on the sensitive
heart Is one OF the most terrible forms
OF torture. Many women are per-
feet mstresses of mordant sarcasm, and
they delight in scarifying their victims"