Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21
WOmGn's Humanity to Woman.
From Commercial Appeal.

A woman'S worst enemy Is US
ually q woman. The Magdalen
finds but little sympathy in the
hearts of her virtuous sisters.
No one knows like a woman how
to say things which stings like
pins, which burns like acid and
which leave scars that outlive a
lifetime.
"A man without religion"
writes Miss Evans, lis to be
pitied. but a Goddess woman is a
horror above all things"
The Lowly Nazarene called
upon the one without guilt to cast
the first stone. 1t was He who
took the part of the fallen sister,
yet how many are willing to do
this today. She is looked upon
as a curiosity, but when brought
in touch with others of her sex,
the prompting of her sisters
heart is to lift her skirts aside
and let her pass without a smile
of sympathy.
How many women are born too
finely organized in sense and
soul for the highway they must
walk with unshod feet? Life is
adjusted to the wants of the
stronger sex. There are plenty
of torrents to be crossed in the
journey through life. Women
are creatures of sympathy. They
should be more generous to each
other. There are close friend
ships between women until a man
crosses their path and friend
ships of a lifetime are then shat
tered in a minute.
The best of women are more or
less suspicious of each other.
The best of friends cannot at
times help saying with the soft
est smiles the mostcutting things.
When a woman desires most to
hurt another woman, like the
subtle tabby, she spurs the loud
est.
Some are so uncharitable as to
think all women bad, and others
are so credulous as to think all
are good. All will grant her cor
poreal frame the more wonder
full, but there will always remain
a doubt in the human mind as to
woman's fidelity to woman.
1t was Victor Hugo who sized
up woman in the trenchant SEN
Etence that Men are woman's
playthings; woman is the devils. "
Unkind, perhaps, but some.
times we are persuaded to believe
that the French philosopher,
iconsclastic it is true, was right.
J, We have often heard, of mans
%inhumanity to man, but it is milo
when compared to woman's in
humanity to woman.
The intuitions of woman are
better and reader than those o.
a man. She decides quickly. tot
frequently without reason, bu
/ any woman who is honest will
herself and is honest to others
will candidly tell you that thu
most dangerous acquaintance
married woman can make is
female confidant.
The world is a book of women
Whatever knowledge they ma,
possess is more commonly &C
Quired by observation than b,
reading,
With men it is different. Me-
have more intimate confidence i
= each other than women have
n Many times this confidence i
abused, but it is a confdenc
more binding and sincere tina:
the confidence they have in eac'
other.
!, When a woman's name j
smirched the average man wi
= overlook Dame Rumor. Not s
;. with her sisters. They will pal
iently see that the rumor is Gil
). culated, that it grows, that it /
- given overdue publicity.
- This is one of society's great
est problems yet unsolved. II
stead of trying to protect an
), shelter a slipping sister, her fe
low women in nine cases out
10 will try to focus the limeligf
upon her. 1t is the way of tt
;, sex. Since the dawn or creatio
= woman has been woman's wor.
enemy. Until doomsday woma
" will be arrayed against woman
. This does not apply to the sex
IN a whole, but it does apply to
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