Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-12-17
WCHEN MOST CRUEL
TO FELLOW WOMEN?
Feminine Writer'S Arraiqn-
ment of Center Sex.

mat women are unjust to women is
an ancient cry. But there has never
been any different answer to the cues
ton. "WhyY Women are unjust to
women because they don't trust them.
and because they fear Them and they
nave always had ample reason for that
mistrust and fear, is a statement made
by Jane Doe, in the Continental Edi-
ton of the London Mail.
Even the injuStices to which women
in the workaday world are subject
from colleagues of their own set. the
cattlness of forewomen and mana
geresses, the refined bullying of GER
tain hospital matrons and hotel house
Keepers, the slave driving mistresses
who want the arts of the chef, the
manners of a duchess, the gumption
OF held marshal, and the energy of a
pack mule, all told in the same domes
tic for few dollars a year; the back
Dltlng, the jealousies, the enmity and
the petty rivalries and utter snobbish-
ness to be found fourishing like ugly
- N'Nit itly u vi ltllIlllllt So
ciety-all these pale into utter insig-
nlficance before the stupendous cruel
~ OF woman to woman where hearts
and men are concerned.
Let US face the naked facts and put
sentimentality and all popular but
lying fallacies anent the inherent saint
illness and gentleness of what is really
the unfair sex on one side. Woman's
greatest enemy after she gets a hus.
band is woman
Men have been, and are. responsible
for much of the unhappincss that en-
ters into the lives of single girls. but
1t is women in the main who ruin the
happiness of wives. For every woman
who tries to make a shining success of
hef married life, there are dozen
women in the ofIing who are convinced
they could do it a lot better if they
were given the chance And some of
them stop at nothing to secure that
chance.
If the secret history behind most of
the unhappy stories Of women who
have been forced to leave their hus.
bands, or who have been deserted by
them, were revealed to the public. the
story would be astounding-astound-
ing because it would tell of the an
palling prevalence of the girl-thief of
married love, the feminine cuckoo who
is fouling another woman's love-nest
the pirate on the matrimonial seas
VINO doesn't care what hopes she
wrecks and what honor and peace she
skaters forever
| know of a score of such cases,
have heard of scores more, and | have
read of hundreds like them. Nor are
all these women the lurid vampS sc
unfaithfully portrayed on those cheap
novelties MISUNDERSTANDING which
we call films They do not fit like
beautiful birds of paradise across the
horizon of happily married men, daz
zling their good sense with mysteri
Gus perfumes, intoxicating them with
rose du tendre kisses, binding then
with their charm and magic to all
other bonds but worthless ones.
We wish they did They would be
so easily sorted out. Alas, the thiet
of love can be a commonplace girl in
an office with a gift for petting anC
soulful sympathy; she can be the
woman wearing a transformation who
lives next door and who invites yor
both in for mah-jongg and CHECKER
sandwiches subsequently helping her
self to your husbands chicken heart.