The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-13
Some Men---and Their Manners.


words what he thinks of his own sex and
leaves one little room for doubt as to the
truthtulness OF his expressed opinion Women
have been dong it for ages, as to their sex,
occasionally taking side-swipe at men; but
it has been left for man blessed with good
powers OF observation, to write an article
which he captioned Scratching the Skin
deep Gentleman" and right we'll has he
scratched.
His article dealt with that species of the
male which we class as belonging to those
mystical upper ircles,' than which there is
nothing more airy, nor less tangible.
But there IS another class of men, posing
as gentlemen to the outside world, when we
have the dictionary classification in mind Of
zone OF gentle or refined manners" and he is
as common as grass, in every class of life
He is the man who smiles at everybody out
side the home circle, and who saves his
frowns. his ailments and his fault finding for
the only people who can not, or dare not
resent it, the 'home- folks"
His class is the 'Ewhere- all that-money-T-
gave you-last- week. which has driven more
women to the divorce court and into the bust
ness world than ever did the chorus girl fra
ternity, the open saloon, or any of the other
evils which are cited to prove why are di-
VOrces.
There is a class of women who, if there is
really heaven for them to 90 to. deserve the
highest seats, the most milk and honey, with
the least possible effort, and an entire i'm
munty from harp-playlng, or any other form
OF celestial labor; these are the women who
have taken in washing. run boarding houses,
taken in sewing, been the backbone of farms
for as long period as the head of the house
decided on Il, form of living and who have
with it all so successfully shielded and braced
the men to whom they were married that it
was only after the funeral that the neighbors
realized Just what sorry specimen of man
kind the head Of the house was, and Just what
sort of timber the wife was made Of
Recently the United States Government, in
another of its spasms of census taking, de-
clded it wanted to know more of the condi-
lions of the farm women In the various States
1t gathered specimens of the statistics. issued
them in book form. and if the compiler of
those statistics didn't feel like going out with
a gun and cleaning off some of the male speci-
mems the statistics referred to, it was because
he was one of the same sort.
The sum total of human misery was counted
up in these statistics. and if there are any
more consecrated young men, and women,
looking for mission work. they will never do
a better days work than getting copy Of
that book, and then getting bus teaching
Christianity and morality to some of the hus-
bands cited.
AS was to be expected, New England fur
nished the greatest number Of horrible exam
pies; one man was cited who had buried five
wives, and was placidly looking for the SIXTH
all of the deceased had gone the same round
of washing, ironing, child-bearing, churning,
cooking, "helping" at harvest time, besides
cooking for the extra hands needed at that
time, weaving, toting water from we'll over
five hundred yards from the house latter
pulling the water up with a bucket tied to a