The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-03-16
BELITTLES WOMEN
AS WORLD FACTOR
ENGLISH CRITIC HURLS HOT
SHOT AT THE GENTLER SEX.
STRONG ANSWER GIVEN.
LONDON-Phew!

LONDON-Phew!
Englishwomen have been Frustrated
by the heat of an attack on them by
one Mr. j. Swinburne.
This arch critic startled the members
of the sedate Musical association the
other day by the most Singing Indlct-
ment of women this generation has yet
produced.
Here s what he had in his notes to
say:
Women have never done anything OF
the smallest importance in art. The
whole art of music in this country has
suffered, because all the little girls |
learned music and the little boys did |
not No nation could be musical III
which women took an active part IN
what ought to be the art of music.
To prove his-point he threw out chal-
lenges wholesale:
Raps WOman's Stand
''There has never been woman
critic. No woman has brought out
system of harmony. No woman has
written a leading textbook on any
branch of art. No woman has made
a name as teacher or composer No
musical instrument has ever yet been
invented by a woamn. Yet every day
a million women waste some million
hours working a million pianos-'cost-
ing as much as a navy
In his opinion the war was huge
sex advertisement for women. They
wore comic opera uniforms-breeches
wherever possible and they cursed,
smoked, swore, talked slang, and be-
came as good an imitation of the lower
type of manhood as they could he
said.
Another of his complaints against
sweet woman is that she lacks the
mechanical faculty, apropos of which
he dashed out thusly:
GA woman can not cut a pencil.
She dabs her pen to the bottom of the
ink pot and then, when one nib re-
tires into the holder she pushes an
other in on the top of it. She thinks
water boiling violently is much hotter
than water simmering. She will work
a sewing machine every day of her
life and not bother to find out how
it works. All machinery is to her
queer stuff that only men understand
Scores Modern Dress
Then he started on the dress topic:
Women always look best dressed
as table maids, nuns or nurses. The
costumes are plain and in no way
decorative, but give a woman her head
and she makes her costume ugly by
doing everything possible to distort her
figure. Women wear hats which give
them look of hilarious insanity, so
that out of doors one feels that the
whole sex is completely and Outrage
ously mad"
That and very much more like that
was what he had in his notes to say
but he lost his nerve. He expected to
face an audience of men, and when he
found that two out of every three of
his listeners were women, he changed |
his tactics, discreetIy announced that
his paper would be taken as read and !
contented himself with a few inoffen-
sive and eminently conciliatory re-
marks.
Women Answer Back
However, the chairman insisted on
reading the tit-bits Gas quoted abOve) |
in order to make ''basis for discus
sion. -
Swinburne meanwhile turned his back
to the gathering and shaded his bushes
with his hand.
The women took up the discussion "
with will.
When they had finished with Mr.
Swinburne, he had very clear concep-
ton of man S real status in the gener-
al scheme of things, and it was meek
er and milder critic who at the end of
the meeting volunteered the opinion
that - character might be more than in
tellect-and certainly women had no
bility of character"
But all the same Englishwomen are
awake now to the kind of things men
say behind their backs.
say behind their backs