New-York tribune., 1914-11-22
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men are ever really crazy a1oa, ana Wo
with their own sex. m.al you. While th
md roeneot tb. -oo5 +-,+rrr' bre.f-sr.
Iact' Nheh we 90 NEE. sue" ID "oI-'i-' ."
natcly for the race. there aren't many
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w.
ana AhoIe" Lang
But, surely, Jane Austen would no
porter expostulated.
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ana why not. MAJ! "nichei4O - ''' i'-'
their own granddaughter, so 10 speak.
vice 70 fc+ion in oustine the unreal an
t..l ..1 .
ana introducing 'h "'i s.e"N '''e -e'''' -
lighttully unsentimental feminine cfea
Arthur Jones. George Bernard Shaw and
Az. -ror,,ost s,sv-ered bor ov., ou
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ana went on iI cuIIOu9' 10" 4' nov
trying TO make themselves believe they
they like an altogether different sort, q
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.t,
mis- ideal OF Nomauhood ls' ana he ".I .
draw you o picture OF au impossiOly /
duU female 20 whom he apuortfons
LARGE .qobs' u think that's what Won
cali II bcroJ OF pcutIeuc.s. fpl. .r.
trustfulness ana purIty. lie U.
NO., eoier,rly +b.t tbef ie the .o.- .rI
woman his mother was and that is the .
Lind Of woman b.. wife is on is 90 no .
10 he If Won told him what perhaps /
Won know personally 10 be the truth
that his mother or his wife is none Of J
the dreadful things be draws in his I
picture. but wholesome. normal hu- /
man being. with a vast fund OF common /
sense and scarcely an atom Of senti- /
ment in her svstem-he would treat il I
as sacrilece. He simply incapable /.
of approaching at its true value the /
very necessary element of the feline
that must enter into the nature Ol the I
Garden variety of woman 4 woman
without the feline QUALITY .r her make /
nm il the woman vitlo coouetry. /
,,;tbout buuor without c... and with
ont snirit Indeed I shall go so far as
- cor too that sucb a woman is WITH !
". ~ oasI soI - 60 For On mo otber oc-
oss;or r,'lS los woman reveal her in :
baront catfish, snirit quite so unmis- /
tatabiv or instinctivelv. as in her zeal .
go conservatioo of the morals Of her
Sev n is onlv sbort-sighted and
eboi1ou, critic who condemns women
90 t6oir oft-ouoted inbumanitv to err I
80, Nom bers OF their sex. Women
.i,,,o,,s bove sat in harsh judgment on
tbo woman sinner. and they always
will. because. as have already said, /.
the right sort of women-our mothers, /.
wives sisters and aunts-all have /
within them something Of that much .
maligned animal. the cat"
Remembering that Andrew Lang was 4
a devoted lover of cats. several Of
which he has immortalized in his .
pages, Miss Tempests forego ne refer
ence to her distinguished fellow cOun-
tryman was now quite comprehensive.
'Yes, he loves cats, and hc loves also
the type of woman of which the cat ls
the symbol" she agreed. "That is why
ne has been able to write so delight
fully Of Jane Austen's heroiues. None
Of your mawklsh, sentimental, bread