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The Washington times., 1919-10-26


fe~bach rolates concerning the Polynesians
that 81 girl was cnurted by two suitors
each NJ them gre sped one arm or the be-
loved and pulled her toward him-the
STRONGER one got her. but in some cases
not before her limbs had been pulled out
of joint And Waltz says that the girls
were commonly abducted by force, which
led frequently to most violent fights. in
which the girl herself was occasionally
wourded or even killed. to prevent her
from falling into the hands of the enemy.
The best man" at our modern mar
riages, we learn from Mr.. Finck, is the
representative of the bridegroom's chief
assistant in the former act of capture.
In the most highly developed and refined
women the spirit of self-sacrifice, developed
in part from ancient submission to brutal
ity, exists in such a remarkable degree
that they continue to love those who III
treat insult and abandon them. This is
admirably expressed by Mr.. FincR when
he says:
"self-sacrifce is one of the traits OF ro-
mantle love which may remain unaltered
and unweakened in conjugal affection.
Those who have traced the course of the
wives of the poor says Mr.. Lecky, and OF
many who, though in narrowed circum-
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skeleton than in man. They dilate ana
contract more than his. This is the basis
of emotionalism. The sight Of deeds of
strength, violence or brutality by a man
excites her emotions. Women looking at
prizefight become more excited than men,
The bloody spectacles of the Roman arena
appealed most strongly to women. In an
exceptionally emotional woman the news
that her absent husband has attacked an
other person, however inoffensive. may
send an impulse through her vaso-motor
system that will revive the paralyzed and
atrophied centres of affection.
The submission of woman to ill-treat-
ment and her frequently persisting affec-
ton for the man who ipflicts it may be
traced partly to the hereditary influence of
the institution of marriage by capture,
which at one time prevailed among large
part OF the human family and still exists
among savages. The captured bride was
often injured in the struggle, but this in
no wise lessened her love for her captor.
Mr.. Henry T. Finck, the learned student
OF woman's psychology, thus describes the
Significance of this institution:
"This primitive form of courtship, II is
obvious, is very much ruder than that
which prevails In the animal kingdom,
where the males alone maltreat one an
other, while in this early human courtship
the woman, IL she resists, Is simply
knocked on the head and her senseless
body carried off to the captor's tent. Die
c.
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liberate sacfitice Of their own enjoyments
TO the w-9-being or the prospects of Others
''It is in Wagner's music-drama that the
modern ideal of feminine devotion unto
death has found its most stirring embodi-
ment Elizabeth, having lost her Tam
hauser-thanks to the allurements of
Venus-dies of brokel heart; Senta.
realizing that only by her self-sacrifice
can the unhappy Dutchman be released
from his terrible doom of eternally sailing
the stormy seas until he should find a
woman faithful to him unto death, tears
herself away from her family and plunges
into the ocean. Isolde sings her death
song over the body of Tristan, and Brunn-
hide immolates herself on Siegfried's fu
neral pyre."
It would be impossible to review the
vast number of womel who have spent
their lives In loving men who made them
suffer. Stendhal, who is considered high
authority on love, calls attention to the
case of two of the most brilliant women OF
the French royal family before the Revo
luton. One of them, the Duchess de Berri,
was enslaved to little fellow who ap-
peared ridiculous and disgusting to every
body at court and who treated her like
dog, The other woman, the Duchess OF
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not leave her Bin until he beat her to
death
But more astonishing revelation than
any of these awaits us. This is the scie y
tific a. ~monstration that the man who beats
his wife is possibly a hero who is EN-
ploying in a mistaken direction the force
that might win kingdoms or presidencies.
This surprising assertion is made in the
work Of DR.. Maurice de Fleury> on Mind
and Medicine which has been named By
the French Academy. -
DR.. de Fleury first describes the man
who expends vast nervous force-~the hy<-
persthenic man:
The hypersthenic is always proud and
masterful courageous, bellicose and fierce
pitiless because he has himself no need or
pity, and constantly on the brink OF exa>~
peration. Should the conditions of bis
daily life not consume his excess OF vital
ity, his need OF exPending his super
abundant energy the suppressed steam Of
his human machine, his turbulent strength
strives to find an outlet and 10 strike. In
time Of war sucH men prove themselves
heroes and brave death so as to win the
admiration of TIE world.
"Such men have merited statues simply
for having soothed their nerves by lawful
butchery. So superb was their vaior, so
lofty their disdain of danger and death,
so magnffcent was their attitude, so noble
and so sacred the cause they served that
the multitude could not fail to be moved
by the tragic beauty OF the spectacle they.
offered -
1T may be that those very same men,
who make so great a figure in the history
Of the First Empire-born for the most
part in the lower ranks OF life, who rose
by their own vslor TO the state OF dukes.
princes or kings. might have come into
the world in time OF profound peace.
when their suDerhuous force might have
expended itself, for want OF other means
OF dispersion. in duarrelling with their
pei9nbors. beating their wives; or. worse
still; their natural heroism and overwhein-
ing vigor might have found its entire use
in such miserable doings."
LATER AS this page goes TO press Il
is intimated that Miss Whitmore win not
press her damage suit against NJ Walter
and thinks the playwright has suffered
enough" Did the prompt rallying 10 hSsi
support by his wife influence Miss Whit
more TO forgive and forget those punches
in the face? Or is IL possible that those
four punches have stirred feelings of af'
lection in the heart of Miss whitmore
which nothing else could have stirred,
And, IL Mr.. Waiter and the girl he knocked
out make II up sweetly-will his wife COR
tinue TO worship him as her '1dol7,>
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X n r. EUGENE WALTER, the clever
NI playwright. author of paid in
AsA Full and other edifying works.
has called attention to one of the most
interesting problems in the psychology of
womanhood.E
He has not done it by a new play, but
by personal action OF the most energetic
kind.
The assertion that some women love
brutes is an ancient one and supported BY
a vast mass Of evidence. Is this sentiment
so deep-rooted and irrational that an exhi
bition of brutality by a man toward one
woman win revive another woman's love
for him after it had grown cold? That is
the strange problem suggested by Mr..
Walters actions.
In 1908 Mr.. Walter was married to Char.
lotte Walker, one of the handsomest emo
tional actresses on the American stage.
Outsiders thought IL an ideal union Of
talent and beauty, but these two qualities
did not agree. For several years the pair
have been separated, and IL was Miss
Walkers announced intention to obtain a
divorce
Mr.. Walter. while amusing himself at
Los Angeles, met an attractivelyoung mo-
ton picture actress named Nina Whitmore
anu OCCdnc cudmOtcu VI hcf- III hNSs' iiS
planned to marry her as soon as his wife
obtained a divorce.
Something happened that led Mr. Walter
to break vigorously into Miss Whitmore's
room. according to her statement, to ac-
cuse her Of accepting attentions from
other men and then to punch her in the
face. II was a cruel attack she said. For
this she asks $4,000 damages
No sooner did Miss Charlotte Walker
receive word that her husband had hit the
young motion picture star in the face than
all her old affection for him ,welled up in
her heart Immediately she issued this
remarkable statement and confirmed il by
a telegram to Mr.. Walter:
"In a crisis like this my place is beside
my husband. No matter what plans I may
have had in this regard, / certainly will
not seek a divorce now. No true wife
would desert her husband In an hour of
= trial. and shall not leave Mr.. Walter.
Nothing is so unimportant in my life
as a bad woman. Although my husband
has caused me untold anguish and suffer
ing, love him. I have sacrificed a great
deal for him, but he has been an idol. a
symbol to me, and simply can't shatter
II now"
The statement that the brutalities of the
cave man appeal to some women instead
Z OF repelling their affections has often been
made by intelligent observers, but never
established as a scientific principle We
find 1t laid down by the best authorities,
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stances, can
hardly be
called poor,
will proba-
bly, admit
in no other
class do we
so ofte n
find entire
lives spent
in daily per-
sistent self
denial. In
the patient
e n d urance
of countless
tria Is. in
the cease
less and 6a-
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Breaking Down the Door of Her Room Eugene Walter,
in Jealous Rage Landed Four Terrific Punches the
Face of Miss Nina Whitmore-and Ths Revelation of
Her Husbands Amiabe Gentiy and Jealous Interest IN
Another Woman Stirred the Old Love of the Wife
He Was Separated From.
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Longueville, married a mxH-
far below her in birth. who
constantly deceived and In
suited her and probably bet
her. -
OF these and similar cases ,
Stendh4 remarks: -
The women OF whom We
are speaking like to be de-
spised by their lover, whom
they only love in his cruelty"
The great psychologist.
Dickens, portrayed in Nancy
Cflos Uouasr, who uoufr7
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KR R. EUGENE WALTER. the clever
M playwright, author of paid in
4s4 Full and other edifying works,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-05

which other nations have debated and fought over for hundreds of years are forced on the astonIshed public with such rapidity that 1t is impossible to understand or assimilate them. The Council of Thirteen are in dread full hurry; they seem to feel that their time is hmisted or that their dominion will not last, and they are determined at all costs so to inoculate the people with the germs of the foul disease that the State will never be able to get rid of it's effects again. One must admire the wonderful precision of the organization which this hand full of men control, and the remark able hold they hape succeeded in es- tablishing over the mob. Their whole program must have been cut and dried a long time before the ac- tuaI revolution. All that was then needed was a suitable printing plant and control of the press, which has ceased to be anything but a govern ment gazette, registering decrees of the Council of Thirteen from the pleasant precincts of the castle of the Habsburgs.
 Gradually everything is being com
 
 be ploughed up, the horses, and pri- | vate houses are the latest included. All houses are now declared to be the property of the State, and the legi- 1 innate owners are assigned certain rooms, the barest number compatible | with decency. Apparently anyone who fancies another's dwelling can 1 take up his quarters there and most 1 extraor dinary fusions of the various l social orders are the outcome.
 The result of all this opera-bouffe l legislation has been to reduce trade and industry to a complete state of chaos. The shops remain closed, no l one can buy anything except food and trade is at a standstill. The coun- try, being already bankrupt, is drift ing still farther into the mire. Nc one is allowed to draw more than D. 1 900 crowns Equivalent to about $10C American money) per month from l the bank. Thus it is utterly impossi- 1 ble for the majority of the people | to go living in this way, for the en- | ormously increased wages to servants | more than absorb this slender in. come. The latter are now being dis charged. and find themselves withou i work or pay. Men and women who | were IIlIlllOndITeS are IIOWF IObOGu O their houses and valuables, and are reduced to live on this meagre sum and are at their wits ends to know what to do. Undoubtedly there i already a strong under-current of dis content against Bolshevism in Buda pest, for the sunshine of fanciec prosperity is already beginning tC fade away behind the clouds of ma terial facts.
 The people find that things are no working out as they anticipated, ant that instead of obtaining their free dom they are living under the wors of all tyrannies. But, unfortunately ; until Entente troops reach the capita , there is little prospect of this feelin! ! towards nationalism crystallizing int l any concrete shape, for the Sovie ; Government hold all the reins to,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-05

to speak to him. It is freely report ed that Lenin is not satisfied with the moderation of his former pupil, and that he has, in fact, sent an ultima tum to him saying:
 You must definitely satisfy me that you are a Bo1shevik government. I will have no dealings with and will give no support to any half-and-half government, made up of Social Dem ocrats and Communists. You must decide at once, one way or the other You have not gone far enough. You have not yet sufficiently frightened the bourgeoisie. What is wanted is a week of footing and killing"
 There is one prominent member of the Communists, a Jew called Szamuelly, who openly advocates this attack on the bourgeoisie, and whom his colleagues have great difficulty in restraining. It is just this that the population fears so much at the present time, and is causing hundreds and thousands to slip quietly away from this city of dreadful dreams. The Inner Council of Thirteen are said to be torn by conflicting pas sions. The moderates are determined to preserve order and to prove that
 
 pillage and bloodshed, but there are the extremists. who declare that BoI- shevism can never assert a perman- ent authority unless it resorts to the dreadful and sinister methods of Le- min and Trotsky in Russia. Which side will eventually win the day no one can tell.
 Garbai, the president of the moder- ate Democrats, is said to be utterly broken down by these dissensions. and yesterday it was stated that Bella Kun had taken his place. The | greatest hope for the preservation of 1 law and order lies in the changed at ! titude of Pogany, the Peoples Com i missary for War, who is said to be l inclining more and more to the Right, | and who is determined to make firm | stand against the Communists and | Terrorists. There are conflicting re- 1 ports as to how far he can hold the Red Guard Army with him, but Po- 1 gany, whatever his faults and mis- | taken ideals, is a strong man, who l looks the part He is ambitious, but now that he has held office an in- l creased sense of responsibility has | developed in him, and he is said to | be determined to keep Bolshevism | clear of bloodshed, if possible The Budapest police force has been 1 abolished and it's members forced tc | join the ranks of the Red Guards This is probably a salutary step, as | it may help to keep the latter alive to a sense of their duties if things come to the worse. This week all un- 1 married men are to be forced to joir 1 the Red Guards, which looks as il | the government was preparing resist l ance against armed intervention iron | outside.
 Comic Opera Legislation. Meanwhile, new legislation is pour. 1 ed forth on fhe astonished public 1T | a never-ending stream of fantastic | decrees. Never, in the history of the
 world have the outward forms of { | revolution been brought about il
 such a short space of time. Measure:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-05
CBy E. Ashmead Bartlett, Famous

(By E. AShmead Bartlett, Famous
 War Correspondent at BudaPest)
 Exactly a week has passed since the revolution. and now one is better able to judge of the dramatic changes brought about. No city has ever gone through such a strange transforma- tion in so short q space of time as Budapest. Up to the present there has been no disorder. and the govern ment, aided by the Red Guards, have kept a tight hold on the unruly ele- ments. One hears of from 10 to 30 looters, caught redhanded, being shot per night, but during the day the streets present a perfectly peaceful appearance. But, alas it is the peace of terror, no one seems to be certain of his neighbor, or when he may be denounced and interned, and, in con- sequence, no one trusts anyone else.
 Men and women who belonged to the old regime, and who believe themselves to be on the prescribed list, are lying low and trying by every means to escape from this city, which is affected as with dreadful pestilence. Hour by hour the circle of ones former acquaintances grows smaller. There comes a timid knock on your door, and figure enters, looking fur itively from right to left to escape ob- servation of the countless lurking spies. You exchange nasty greetings and any information you may pos sess, and then the figure departs as silently as it has come. Next day you hear that another person has succeeded in escaping, or has been caught in the act. Some seek shelter in parts of the country where Bolshe- hoe t1I- nth endeavor to cross the frontiers to commence their lives afresh in other lands and under a new flag, which is not blood red.
 Sometimes your arm Is gripped as you pass up or downstairs, or in a dark corridor or silent by-street. You look up and see someone you have formerly known. You pause for just a second, and the passer-by whispers: 'It would net do for me to be seen with you, you with me. When will the Entente troops come?" A nasty handshake, and your friend passes on his silent way.
 These are the eternal questions - When will the Entente troops come What are the Allies going to do?"
 Budapest Isolated.
 There Is an an absolute absence of news from the outside world. The Soviet-controlled press only prints those teIegrams which seem in any way favorable to the recognition of Bolshevism. We are saturated with news of Lenin's interest in the Hun garian revolution, of enormous Rus San armies marching on the Hungar- ian frontier. of reports of American professors who have been. taken for a joy ride in Russia and report that
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firmly in their hands now that they have disarmed the civilian popula- tiion.
 Peasants Hostile.
 Reports from the country districts are also conflicting. In many quar- ters the peasants are undoubtedly op- posed, tooth and nail, to the new Government. In others there seems, for the moment, to be adherence to Bolshevik principles. The Soviet Government has already had to climb down over the question of land. Count karolyis Government promised each man ten acres but this is not the Communist principle. and the Thir- teen declared that all land would be taken by the State, and not distrib- uted individually amongst the popu- lation. This was too much for the peasants, who promptly rebelled, and the Soviet Government has rescinded its previous order. People are ask ing if householders will be the next to revolt. Classes like the walters ! in hotels are already grooming under i the new regime. At first they revelled 1 in the prospect of 30 per cent. in | crease in pay, but now, at the end ! of a week. they find the hotels half empty; the restaurants, owing to ba6 l food, and worse attendance, unpa' | tronized, and their 30 per cent 1 which looked so big a week ago. ha: now shrivelled like a nummy-wastet
 corpse, and they sigh for the return
 of the halcyon days of tips. Ths | latest decree is that all preciou! | stones, gold. etc, and works of art
 are to be confscated by the State. Everyone is eagerly waiting to hea 1 the decision of the Entente, and nom perhaps with such anxiety as the So | viet Government. Their attitude |
 like that of naughty boys at schoo
 engaged in some nefarious pursuit
 who find their pleasure spoilt tn | whole time through fear of the returl 1 of the master. Will he come bacl at all, and what will he do when h 1 does come back The Governmen
 are absolutely at their wits end t
 decide on a line of policy which vii
 meet both these dreaded possibilities
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-05
BOL SHEVIKS ARE AS WISE
 AS TAMMANY POLITICIANS

Bolshevism is not so bad as 1t is painted, and that no peace can be signed with Germany until the Rus sian Bolshevik government is recog- nized. From the German papers we obtain some scraps of informat ton, but the sources are generally so un- reliable that they inspire little confi- dence. We read that M. Pichon has made statement in the Chamber that the Allies will immediately in tervene in Hungary with armed forces, and another report says that British troops have landed in Plume and Trieste. Then, for half an hour,
 80 per cent. of the population of Budapest become quite cheerful, for,
 let it be clearly understood, that 80
 per cent. long for the intervention of the Allies.
 It becomes every day more evident
 that Bolshevism in Hungary has
 been forced on the people by q clever,
 interruptions gang of 24 Jews, who, by playing on the feelings of some 100000 unemployed workmen, and by
 utilizing part of the old armed forces,
 have succeeded in completely terror
 izing a city of a million and half
 of people. Budapest every day be- CClIleS IIlOIe GilplyJ anu l14C 1AS4A4OAASA ble districts are almost deserted. The upper classes have mostly fled, or are endeavoring to do so, and the bour-
 geoise are allowing themselves to be quietly disarmed, so that now, with out the intervention of the Allies there is little or no chance of a coun- | ter revolution. In the streets you see l hundreds of all classes hurrying tC | deliver up arms, rifles and revolvers ! swords and knives, and sporting guns which they hand in like sheep goins i to the slaughter at certain prescribed | centres. It is a pitiful, painful, and l shameful sight. If there were only a 1 couple of thousand determined mer
 in the city all these things might have | been stopped. A single brigade ot | troops could throw the terrorists out | of office inside of half an hour, and
 restore the fainting spirits of the con- stitutionaI majority into life and ac' | tion-
 Yet we must do the Soviet Counci | justice. Up to now they have succeed
 ed in preserving perfect order, ant 1 have preserved the lives of all for 1 eigners. You read, side by side or
 the walls, notices in red ordering -Ht
 pro1etariat to respect the lives anc | haSS oL IoleiSA Ile"'ioii9' oIiiu lheh Lo l ticeS like this:
 "The red terror. What is the reC 1 terror? You bourgeouise will soor 1 know"
 Ienin's Distrust.
 l Bella Kun, Lenin's former secretar. | and ardent disciple, is for the mo | ment the most powerful man in tn | government, and is in constant wire l less communication with his for1ne | chief, frequently sitting up all nigh
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-05

Every day they expect an ultimatum.
 but up to the present that has not appeared. There are some who openly advocate breaking altogether with the Entente, and others who hope to be able to arrive at some compromise. This hesitancy is re- flected in the attitude of the minor minions who, either through inclina- ton or to save their skins, have thrown in their lot with the new re-
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gime. One day they are aggressive Communists, but on the next, if there is a rumor that Entente troops are advancing. they creep silently up to you, and. when no one is looking, ex- plain that they have never been Bol- sheviks at heart, and long for the re- turn of law and order. The position of all these cat-jumpers is really pitt full to behold.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-15
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