The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-05

Mans method is therefore different
from womnn's. II woman Is going TO
make her highest and best contribution
into pubIit. affairs she will have to stop
initiating man and introduce into the
conduct Of public affairs woman's own
method.
In Cleveland, o.. group OF women
organized Woman's Savings and Loan
Company, which at the end Of three
wears Is about to take on banking as
one of its activities. 1t " an all-wom-
an institution, it's. directors, depositors,
and stockholders Icing women. BY
laws have been amended 20 allow men
10 come In as depositors or investors
II Is q strictly wOman-mnde, woman
Cpernted institution. Directors meet
,pgs are held in the basement, and,
noting that this room contained only q
rlain table, the writer was told that fu-
neral chairs were borrowed for the d.
rectors' meetings from one of the lady
directors who Is Gifts Superintendent Of
Cemeteries.
Well, that's just il. When men
start n bank the first thing they do Is
TO buy swivel chairs. Women borrow
funeral chairs.
The average man has O swiyel-chair
soul. II you'll follow the line any
average man has marked out for him:
self to it's end You will find a swivel
chair. well oiled and padded and pillow
ed-one so delicately adjusted that 1t
will swerve and sway ard swing in
response to his slightest wish. If
there are no swivel chairs in heaven
man won't be acclimated there.
Primitive man had to overcome and
to kill in order to get what he went
after, and he went after food and sus-
tenance for the family. Primitive
woman stayed at home and made the
best Of what was at hand and waited
for man to come home with the bacon.
When he came home without it--and
he often does, you know-she found a
substitute for the bacon while he slept
off bis fatigue. That IS why man, by
instinct and by experience, is destruc
tive in his methods and woman con-
structive.
We women must be generous enough
to give credit to man for some charac-
teristics which have usually been ac-
credited to us. We must admit that his
is the sentimental sex; that he is more
emotional, more romantic than We are.
That is the reason he Gets great store
and is greatly influenced by things in
campaigns and conventions that would
not be noticed by women. 1t also ac-
counts for his seeming stupidity in
managing, OF. in trying to manage, us.
But we are more subtle in our psy-
chology. We see more deeply into mo-
tives; we see in seemingly trivial
things straws that show the way the
winds are blowing in peoples souls.
A very promising candidate in one of
our great national conventions this year
seriously jeOpardized. if she did not lose,
her chances for election by wearing an
impossible hat" A pretty little South
crn woman started something" that
defeated another woman for office by
saying: Il fully intended to vote for
her until l saw her feet. No woman
who wears shoes like that is fit to be
president of this organization"
Now you may say that these things
are extremely silly, and yet there's
where you are wrong. Women want to
feel that they can look up to their
leaders. Many Of them live in the far
places. Ninety-two per cent of them
have no servants, but do their own
work.
Part Of wOman's job in life has al
ways been to be attractive. TIE way
in which she dresses expresses how she
feels, indicates what sort Of a person
she conceiyes herself to be. Bad taste