Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-11-10
MAN The WEAKER?
Woman Calls Him "BedraggIed
SCareCroW in Trousers"
Female OF the Species a "Stalklna
! Tiaress," Made Up to Look Love-
ly, Frail, and Helpless.

"There never was a woman born
who was satisfied with the man she
married. She always makes him over,
or, rather, she mistakes his gradual
disintegration for something construc-
tive In her own handlwork.
"The universal husband Pathetic,
bedraggled scarecrow In trousers. No
wonder men always answer their
country's call to arms. 1t is far easier
to face quick death on the battlefield
than slow death beside the domestic
hearth.
"At home they are helpless, numb.
Things overtake them, fasten on them
while they are asleep. Whichever
way they go, 1t is not the way of their
choice. They are pushed along from
behind, never doing any Of the things
they desire, never wanting any Of the
things they get.
Poor universal husband %
So Jane Burr writes, with scorching
pen.
She begins:
"As the blare of trumpets and the
swirl Of smoke gradually die down on
the feminist battle 'front.' an unbiased
eye sees, still breathing but spiritual
ly dead, a pathetic, bedraggled sort of
scarecrOw in trousers-the universal
husbandl The universal husband,
made out of all the promising little
boys in the world, is warped and
cheated by women from the moment
he expands his lungs at birth until he
contracts them (often wlllfully) at
the moment of death.
During infancy his mother eats
him alive, smothers him with emotion
In order to get a personal outlet,
makes of him, II she can, her bowling,
scraping courtler, ties him to her by
a thousand invisible but unbreakable
threads. He tries to escape her in
bOyhoOd, but in the reflex caused by
an insult from some pink sunbOnnet
and pinafore he rushes back to moth
er for consolation. Mother consoles
and gloats. She has him back. All
her life she watches like a bird Of
prey for a recurrence of this chance
to console and to gloat.
Later on, in his effort to escape
mother, he falls in love-which
means. in most cases, exchanging a
cruel power for crueller one.
ale sees frail, lovely. helpless
girl, and his heart goes out to her; he
wants to build his nest with her, for
her; he longs to buy her trinkets, to
guard and protect her from the vicious
outside world.
"As a matter of honest fact, he does
not want to do any of these things
He only thinks he wants to do them
Old primitive nature Is undermining
his reason; old primitive nature has
got to get her rough work done.
after marriage the promising youth
with his fantastic ideas becomes
universal husband. The frail, lovely,
helpless girl proves to be neither frail
nor helpless. She was made up to
look frall, lovely and helpless in order
to stir his manly qualities. With the
moose secure about his neck, he sees
her remove her paint, her eyelash
black, her face powder, her false
tresses. He suffers as he watches the
exposure of her outward dishonesty.
physically, at least, woman gets
what She marries, but men never know
until the artifciallties are removed.
"As men are little boys, they might
even forget the exposure of their
wives physical disabilities If It were
not for the things they later discover
In women's souls,
Women have very little honesty.
no modesty and no sense of shame.
They cannot afford such fairy-book
Injuries. Real honesty modesty and
a sense of shame are not things with
which to catch a husband Maiden
women invariably possess some of
these abnormal qualities. That is
why they remain maiden women.
"a woman cannot be frail. She is
not frail She Is a tlgress. She is
not helpless She can move noun
tains, and does Ii she is not always
given her own way. If she were help
less the universal husband would
know how to provide for her. how TO
place her in his relation to a struggle
for existence. But he does not know
where to place her She turns up at
unexpected moments, In unexpected
places. and acts as positive menace
to his psychology and to his business
career"-Pall Mall Gazette.