The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-15
Males Complain, [, Of Inroads By
 Fair Sex

ID ECENTLY a satrist in comic h pictures presented the idea of
 male golfers driven by rain from the course to the club house and unable to find ash trays because of the wom- en bridge players had them all at the tables. The men can try to laugh that off, says he Chicago Tribune.
 No. 2 of the rules governing the women's department of the Racquet club of Chicago is: "Men are not per 'mitted to enter the women's depart ment." No man willingly would go in. If they got him there he would have to be hog-tied and dragged.
 A few desperate golf clubs have fired all women off the premises for all time. Presumably they have an aggressive element of hard-boiled post-meridian bachelors who rallied the gang before the men were chased out of the locker room and the showers.
 We have heard of one old style male, a stalwart product of the European tra- dition that woman's place is in the wheat field, the coward and the kitchen, who explained to the police |: "She bob-bed her hair; l knocked her down; she bob-bed her hair" A not able achievement, but too isolated to be of much value. We have also the Cicero incident, but the other males instantly betrayed their militant broth CTS.
 We know of one woman who made her husband sit in the barber shop while she had her neck shaved. The poor worm had no chance, but he was not yet reconciled to his humiliation.
 Women do not take their husbands to Paris nowadays. The ham sandwich has a different meaning. The Ameri- can man has become drudge. His job is to make' the money. Occasionally he is chained in the back of the opera box. At other times he is glassy-eyed at dinner parties.
 We do not suppose the average man has had decent game of poker in five years. He has not had a talk with self-respecting bartender in the same time. Such of his institutions as are not completely gone have been femi- nized. If he goes to prize fight he has talcum powder sprinkEed on him every half hour by the makeup process in the next seat.
 He has been run ragged by the fem mine invasion of his cloisters. He lost the smoking car on the elevated and where he still retains smoking cars he finds the women edging into them.
 Man is essentially a shy creature. He has an instinct for solitude and also for the simplicity of life, for the emotional calm and serenity of asso- ciating with other males. Woman is essentially a creature without com punctions. She is urtscrupously az gressive. The reticences and reserves which control the male are not in her. She knows the timidties of the male and works them. The girl who held up youth by threatening to scream if he did not hand over his roll was anus ing herself, but she was not unusual.
 In their timidity the men betray themselves shamelessly. If a lady pots one of them with pearl handled, sill yer mounted .22, 12 Iscariots in jury box will formally find that it served him right. He ought not to have an- noyed the lady by living.
 The men are at the Marne, leader less, and no taxicab army is in sight to save them. They may make stand, but we doubt it. They have been beat en back, run over, and chased up the hillsides. Their remnants are dusty, Jagged, unnerved, and with no fight in them. The matriarchy is just about established.
 There may arise long haired male breed which will restore the patriarchal system. If help is coming it must come quickly, or all is lost.