Evening star., 1926-10-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. 7RACEWELL.

Not only is woman more practical. by
nature, but she would have had
working for her. too, all the men who
have made the annals Of the progress
of mankind. Thus. instead Of mere
handful of benefaotors of mankind,
working often against the greatest
odds. handicapped by ridicule and op-
preston, there would have been
whole communities devoted to the
building up of life as we might have
known it-and yet may.
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Much Of modern scientific research
work is nothing more nor less than
the endowment of intelligence, the set
ting free OF brains to work out prob
lens. 1t is difficult to believe that
| women would have done other than
to have builded better than men have,
despite our progress, great in itself,
and to have benefited the world two
fold.
Because women are by nature kind
er than men Except in such cases of
great men as have held in their ma
| lures a fair share of fine feminine
characteristics). it is reasonable to
| suppose that the world would be a
| happier place to live in today for un-
told millions, if women had had, from
! Liz OtAltlilitlS, IIiS t,oN (Oll-
| troll of nations, as well as the leader
ship in the arts and sciences.
Despite the perfectly natural glori-
| ficatiOn of the warrior by the war
rior's women, it Is hard to suppose
Ethat women of themselves would have
spent unnumbered millions and bill
| lions of dollars in war or would have
laid waste whole nations with fire and
sword or allowed themselves to have
| been sent forth to death at the whim
of queen or prime ministeresS. This
| is said in no disparGxement OF heroes
heroes are tremendous, to be praised
war is another matter. indeed. The
| field in which the laborer works is one
| thing; the work he does there strictly
another.
The manly virtues, as we see it,
would be no whit less today II the
| world had been feminized, instead of
| masculiniZed. In the conquest of the
forces Of Nature men would have had
ample scope for the play of masculine
abilities, as thousands Of men are dis
| playing them today in longer and bet
| ter airplane flights, the conquest of
| disease, the regeneration of mankind.
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We would have our base ball. our
prize fights, our foot ball and so on,
just the same as now
LET the boys have their fun" the
| women would say. smiling at the curl
Gus psychology Of the male sex. Hu-
| man nature would not be changed a
| bit--we would all be boys and girls
together. but living in a brighter, hap
pier world, one in which much of the
sorrow now held to be inevitable
would be unknown.
How could 1t be otherwise? Not
| only would the forces of good have
been doubled for these thousands OF
years, but the saving grace Of kindli-
ness, now but slowly creeping to the
fore, would have been in the ascend
ancy since the beginning.
Kindliness (call it love If you pre-
fer'. would have done more for the
general welfare of mankind than the
dominant male has achieved. Kindli-
ness, unrestricted, would have given
us new heaven and a new earth. We
would have been as children playing
upon the seashore, bathed only in
pure air and sunshine.
If there be any unregenerate crea-
ture to doubt this, let him look at a
mother and her babe, and be still.