Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-02

| a MAN says: Darn 'em, what's the mat
~ ter with women, anyway"
Well, to be exact and frank, there
| is about a million things the matter with
| them. The principal thing that ails women
is that they are human, and therefore full
! of faults and frailties Hence, tempers and
! temperament and extravaganza and vanity,
| and nagging and unreason, and matters of
| that sort.
A poor thing at best, but when men
are tempted to criticize the weaknesses of
| the feminine sex, let them never lose sight
| of the fact that Eve was created to Adam S
| order, and that such as women are, men
have made them. Every woman represents
| the desires, the tastes, the ideals, the
| teachings Of thousands of generations of
| men, and If men don't admire the result
| of their handiwork, they have nobody but
| themselves to blame.
| A great deal is said about women's in
| fluence over men. Piffle! 1t is negligible
compared to mans influence over woman.
Woman's influence over man is the slow
! attrition of the glacier that in the course
! Of few centuries polishes smooth a small
spot on granite cliff; but mans influ-
ence over woman is that of the potter over
the clay in his hands that he can form into
the shape he wills.
Man gives into woman in small things
to please her, but woman orders her whole
life to please man. And this is inevitable
because, in spite of all that they have at
tanned and their alleged freedom, man still
hands out the prize packages in life, and
woman is still dependent on him. Her good
times and her success still are contingent
on her finding favor in his eyes.
girl may be pretty and bright and
beautifully dressed and have all the backing
that money and family can give her, but,
unles she makes the right grade with boys,
she will be a wallfloWer and wish she were
under the sun that would fit her to make
an ideal wife, but, unless she also hits the
masculine fancy, she will die in the Spin
sters' Retreat. A bushes woman may pos
sess the financial ability of Hetty Green,
but if she happens to have likewise a
personality that is repellent to men, she
will never get beyond the outer confines
of the stenographer's room.
So in order to get what they wanted
themselves, women have had to make them
selves into what men wanted, and then,
after having made themselves over accord
ing to mems perforated paper pattern of
femininity, man comes along and says it's
all wrong, someway, and, darn it, what's
the matter with women anyway"
It's funny-and pathetic-that the very
feminine foibles that men lambaste most
severely in women are the very ones that
they have most assiduousy cultivated. Take
the love of dress, for example.
When a man gets really eloquent about
the weaknesses of women, he begins upon
her passion for clothes He descants upon
the kind of gum drop brain a human be-
ing must have who can find the chief in
terest in life in dress, and to whom the
change of the cut of sleeve is of more
Importance than the rise and fall of a
dynasty. Then he discourses about the folly
Of wearing high-heeled shoes and flirting
with pneumonia with gossamer stockings
and low-necked gowns, and so on, in win