El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-30

about investigating bug or a
I Eeologist a stratum OF the earth's
crust With me, IL I am TO be fair It
must be entirely a matter Of pure
void OF every semblance Of "a priori'
Purely Local Survey.
The subject matter OF the essay Is
Of necessity local. The boss would
not permit me 10 visit Paris or Cairo
collecting material But that matters
little for the very excellent reason
that women are eternally and uuiver-
sally the same. Byron put IL thus:
Women are IS percent the same and
percent different IN every age and
cline" Their sameness lies mainly in
the fact that they are always differ
ent. not from each other but from
themselves with each passing mo-
ment.
Always they have been an inscrut-
able mystery 20 man. That has been
their protection, just as quilts were
given TO porcupines by nature for
their preservation and JUST as turtles
have shells and cows have horns Even
IN the DAYS when men had as many
as q thousand wives in their hsrems
and when women were supposed 70 be
nothing but the toys and servants OF
men. they were in fact his masters.
For what woman. given beauty and
luLelllE EnEes ana not necessarily 4AA-
telliEence- could not have made
monarch kick over his throne and go
EaddinE about the earth as her Whimf
What history would be comnl ere with
out its adventuresses who made
statesmen and priests their jumping
Local Material Good.
So. In attempting to fathom the
WAYS Of women those Of FL Pas0 viii
serve the purposes Of our psycholoEi-
cal clinic quite as vel as Cleopatra.
Helen, Ruth or Catherine de Medici
OF antiquity would have done and
quite as we'll as the danes OF the
Moulin Rouge, or Peacock Alley OF
saint or roue anywhere could 90 to-
day.
To begin with. what = 1t we want
to find out about Womenf This Is
what we ordinarily ask ourselves
about any other mystery We would
penetrate. In this case, however, we
must not let them know the definite
things we wish TO know, for the fe
male OF the species is mora elusive
than the male The minute she sus-
poets we want TO know some specific
thing about her she uses that faculty
Of hers which is analogous 20 the ink
squirting propensity Of the cutie tish
and beclouds the point under obser-
walton with a camouflage Of deep
ton which completely bumfO0zles the
optics Of the observer.
Appear Uneoneerned.
Therefore, let us seek to find IN
woman Just whatever may be there.
For in this way we may fool her. II
she does not know what we seek 10
know. she viii not know what 70 ]
dissimulate. Moreover. let Us men. not ]
appear to be concerned about her in Z
the least, for II we succeed IN this she I
VIII stand before Us revealed with all I
Of her beauties and blemishes Of soul. ]
n Trrrrzf he admired hnTnwn n-nfnnr on. 4
that once we find her out we VIII /
not be better of than before. For I
with woman no longer a secret wha- I
is there left FOR man 70 know that IS /
worth knowinE7
one thing more about methods. ]
Woman cant be studied in the 0esh /
alone It IS the soul OF woman We are /
after anyhow. No man, regardless OF 4
his girth, his age or his previous con- {
iitiou OF matrim0ny can study a ]
pretty woman disinterestedly in her
presence. Who, for instance can lools
INTO the dark brown orbs Of some /
laipltatinE young thing and study j
lerf Let her eyes be blue or gray or
wen green and its the same Let her
le demurer smaller than Tou ar VI
-ety OF skin and shapely in figure.
set her have a bit Of lace around
he neck and teeth that gnsteu In
Yearly Whiteness between two IN
clded lines Of crimson
Hard Job-Eou Bet.
What scientist or psycholaualyst
SIX Of you. can bend his thoughts to
he soul OF such a creature under
uch clrcumstances2 Any man who
avs he can do it probably is a pre-
'arical0r and any nan who can do
{ IS q fit subject for neurologists-
Yes, women must be studied IA ab-
entia after the material IS gathered.
There are two methods OF gath
erinE material. One e. to ask We
men what they want most in lifei J
what they think about men and
loves what they think about chil-
dren and work; what they think
ahouf cLnlhe.s IELal thev lhlnE