South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-18
Results Of Employing Woman
Intuition In Detecting Plotters,
Enemies IN Disguise and Suspicious
Aliens--and How Science
Accounts for Its Success
Remarkable Results OF EN-

own devices. In this environment she hst
10 watch for enemies and think, not onl,
for herself but for the child to be born
while after It had been born il was he
task 10 protect it until able to shift for it
self She had to think not for only one
like man, but for two three or four. Every
rattle IN the Jungle every sound. every
object might mean peril Through this
constant wstchfulness she developed that
extraordinary faculty Of what we call peri
pheral sight. which she shares with birds
and wild animals who possess it for exactly
the same purpose-the protection of their
young and themselves.
The image reflected on the retina OF the
human eye and carried by the optic nerve
10 the human brain is not perceived by
man in its entirety It's centre is clear. but
as the images pass on 10 the periphery of
the retina they carry to mans brain hay.
indefinite Impressions This is not so with
a woman's eye. The peripheral vision is
almost as clear as the direct central vision.
The consequence is that woman can actu-
ally see out Of the side of her eye and this
explains why she can absorb so much more
detail than a man can. Add to this power
of actually seeing more the age-long ne
cessity for seeing more clearly and acting
swiftly upon things seen and you have one
Of the great factors OF intuition.
The second factor-the sex factor
enters into It no. so largely, but still most
Importantly. A woman could not, in the
simple primitive way Of man, take a club
and beat out her rivals brains. This
might not destroy entirely the affection
Of the male for the slaughtered one and the
Mler herself might well suffer the same
fate at his own hands Woman was.
therefore, driven 70 subtlety. She became
an artist of indirection. Her campaign
against her own kind had 10 be carried on
with cunning, much thought. subtlety.
Little gestures. intOnations, the tiniest
details that could have no significance to
man. grew 10 be the actual signal posts by
which woman made her way.
This circuitous habit OF thought. swift
deduction and greater power Of observs-
tion," concludes DR. Lasselles, makes
woman far ADLER than man in certain fields
Of diplomacy, and also makes her a natu-
raj apprehGuder Of spies wherever women
themselves are concerned"
Here, then. is sciences explanation Of the
success OF the women police that has so
amazed Commissioner Enright and thou
sands who are familiar with the facts.
few more instances Of their work will
illustrate the points Just raised
In one OF the small hotels in upper New
York a small inoffensive young woman
has taken a rooll. The fact that she wears
uniform is a Jest among her fellow
guests She looks as though she were
aenemic Her voice is soft and lov-pitched
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth" says
the waitress. who brings her her morning
coffee. That young woman IS selfstationed
opposite one OF New Yorks most mag
nificent apartment houses.
A friend OF hers had said "On these
hot nights l have kept the shades up at
the window I have been awakened twice
by a signal from the next house. Each
time II was al o'clock in the morning
You've noticed that business sign next
door. There is no reason why that should
be used al o'clock in the morning Be
sides I looked out and each time II looked
no more Ike a business sign than 7 look
Ike you. II was q radiogrhph and Il was
flashing a signal across the river"
Glad you told me-" said the girl
That Is the reason she took a room al
the small hotel opposite the business
mouse. That is the reason the maid who
calls her in the morning finds her looking
wan and s,eepless. She IS sleepless. All
night she watches the house opposite, and
the apparently innocent business sign She
is acquiring evidence that nsy be OF ire
nsndous Importance
n Is matter OF lfttle moment thar cat
should be shot Ia q back ward. The feline
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