The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-23
The Thinking.
 Power By WILLIAM BRAKEMAN

when Europe WAS luuhlllB Olle Ul Lhooe advances in new lines of thought which have marked different stages of intellectual development, when q crop of great French thinkers-Voltaire and others-were attracting attention, wealthy Parisian lady conceived in some degree those ideas intended for the amelioration of women that are in vogue during the present day.
 Mime. DrivauX did not follow the lines of the present movement, where In women contend for equality with men. Her idea was that women were capable of higher intellectual develop ment than men from the fact that they are made of finer texture. Her plan was to utilize the brute force of men by making 1t subservient to the supe- rior intellectual faculties of women.
 Mime. Drivaux, who possessed an enormous fortune, purchased an island In the Mediterranean sea, upon which she proposed to carry out her idea. She had no difficulty in founding her col ony. Some of her -cOlOnists were Of noble birth; others were cOmmoners, but all were intellectual. She called for men volunteers who must join with full understanding that the women were to do the thinking, the men to serve as protectors.
 Mime. Drivaux's idea in. separating her colonists from the rest of the world was that she might make an absolutely fresh start, untrammeled by existing institutions, laws, customs. But per feet shaking off of the present in order to inaugurate q new future is very diff ficult A weak spot in the founders purpose was that among the hundred women she took with her there were three each of whom was loved by a man. These men, unwilling to part with those they loved, enrolled them- selves among the masculine force who were to do the fighting and laborers. Thus at the very outset did the canker- worm get into the roots of the tree that Mime. Drivaux had planted with so much thought, trouble and expense.
 Mime. Drivaux had enlisted every man colonist herself, taking care that he was not opposed to her scheme or. unwilling to accept the direction of the women, looking to his muscles rather than his brain for his share of the work. But these three "misbegotten knaves," who had joined for the pur- pose of getting possession of the wom- en they loved, deceived her by being the lOudest in their advocacy of her plan and their promises to be obedient and patient laborers and soldiers.
 Marriage was not forbidden in the colony, but every man who married was obliged to promise that he would obey his wife. Moreover, he was obliged to agree to be newer of wood and a drawer of water, looking to his wife for guidance like an obedient hus- band.
 Now. the three marplOts who had joined the colony were much put out at having to leave Paris for q consider able time in order to save for them- selves the women they loved. Even on the voyage they put their heads to- gether to devise plan for being re- venged on the colonists for the sacrl- flee they were obliged to make. Nat urally 1t was easy for them to get con trol of the other men colonists. for the latter being content to let the women do their thinking were not disposed to think for themselves; consequently, nssociating with men who were dis ! posed to lead them, they naturally fol- | lowed.
 Now, it so happened that soon after the colony was established a ship stop ped at the island loaded with a fierce band of Arabs from the African coast, bent or plunder Mme. Drivaux called upon the men to attack the invaders and drive them away. Jules Champi- nois, one of the three men who had been plotting against the success or the colonial scheme, said:
 "We are ready to drive these men away. but we would be pleased If you would give us q plan of attack. It IS our part to do the fighting, but your part to tell us how. Shall we take the offensive or act upon the defensiveF Shall we use guns or shall we rely on our bayonets|
 Mime. DrivauX looked scorntully on NJ. Champinois, stamped her foot ana told him to drive the rascals away without asking any further questions.
 The women who were about their chief were much frightened.
 This colony is organized" continued the mems spokesman, "On the plan that you women do the thinking and we men the work and the fighting. Our portion of the good things we have is for doing these alone. It is not just l that we should be called upon to think and fight. If we must do both we can't see wherein you are superior to us, and we call upon you to surrender the lead ership in our favor."
 The Arabs were stealing up on these ipoor women while the men were stand ing idle.
 "We shall be murdered" Towards! Do your duty"
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