The Washington times., 1921-08-06

What Women Think About,
Answer: Everything
Except Foolish Things.
Some Sample Questions.
ARTHUR BRISBANE

by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright lssl.
Proud man, whose conceit
makes the angels weep and then
laugh. imagines that he does all
the thinking, and that women
should only listen.
Many q man sits day after
day beside Q woman with hair
nicely parted over her forehead
without the slightest idea of
what goes on behind that fore
head. Many would be surprised IL
they knew, especially II they
knew what the lady thinks about
the man ut her elbow.
Encouraging for the future
OF this country Is the fact that
American women are interested
In EVERYTHING that Is Of any
importance. Judge for yourself
by some Of the questions that
women put to an aged news
paper man speaking yesterday
70 4 thousand women Of the San
Francisco Civic League.
"What do you think will re.
suit from the disarmament con-
ference?"
''How near is the world to
peace; what arguments can be
offered by those that oppose dis
armament"
what is to be the solution of
the divorce evil; what can
women do to combat it,"
"Wouldn't it be a good idea
TO settle England's debt to Us
BY taking in place Of money
England's possessions here in
America, Canada, Jamaica, etc. I"
ITO what extent IL the drug
svil growing: how can 1t be COM
bated? What part, If any. does
prohibition play in increased use
Of drugs Z"
Would it not be a good idea
to establish at colleges a depart
msnt Of domestic relations, q
moral and mental clinic, calling
In doctors, divorce lawyers,
Judges. happy and unhappy mar
ried people to give testimony
what do you think Of the So
called American plan for solving
the labor questions Is it really
an American plan that would
solve q great question simply by
taking from workmen the right
to organize for higher pay while
allowing makers Of building ma
terials and others to continue
their organizations for getting
highest prices from the con-
sumers Z"
II was enlightening to hear
twenty women in succession ask
questions not one dealing with
trivialities or unimportant mat
tsrs. The same number Of men
would have asked, "How is the
automobile business coming along
in your city" "When do you
think business will pick up Z"
'sYou saw the fight; do you think
Carpenter could have won if he
hadn't broke his thumb ?'-and
that would be about all.
Civilization is coming, real civ
i1ization, not the imitation kind;
and the gates of He'll will not
prevail against it, because women
think and live on an infinitely
higher plane than men.
They are responsible for more
than half the material progress
in the past, and for one hundred
per cent Of the moral progress.
Little boys were gradually
from cannibalism, as they
sat on their mothers knee in the
first years, and similarly they
were gradually. cured Of highway
the savage mother striv-
ing, As the civilized mother
strives, to make her child q little
better than the father.
Until now women have devoted
their lives to the hard task Of
producing the human race. TAX
Ing care Of 1t after 1t Is born
and ut the same time watching
and humoring the inferior, ire
sponsible husband.
Some day the earth will be
fully populated. There will be
q hundred millions Of intelligent,
happy human beings on the
Pacific coast alone. There will
be three hundred millions in
Texas, a great State that could
feed the entire population Of the
world now. under intensive culti-
vntion.
Some day each family will be
limited to two children to prevent
overcrowding. and science, con-
trolling the afferent nerves that
convey sensation and pain to the
brain, will make childbirth pain
less.
Men will be civilized. fit for
the married state. which Is grad
uallv being forced upon them,
and for which they are not fitted
a. yet.
When that time comes, two
children. to a family, man a SEN
sible, self-respecting human being,
women will have leisure to de-
velop their brains instead of
all energy on their
children and their husbands. And