The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-02-20
Facts and
i ilosophy
MORE DEADLY THAN
THE MALE - e..
Sue Core .r,..y.-.. o..

II A Whimsical master artist
L the craftsmanship of words on
s proclaimed himself the friend al
ally of masculinity throughout a
time to come, by hurting straigl
e into the teeth of the world tt
D statement that the female of ii
specie is more deadly than til
| male. Z
Both the words and the sent
ment of the phrase have bee
used as battle cry Of the Sc
since that day; made to fit a
times and occasions while sery
!; ing beautifully as alibi explana
tions of anything and everything
masculinely catty that can b,
printed, said or sung about tn.
female of the race. -
/ Leaving the human element t.
fight the matter out on a 50-5(
basis, it is. rather interesting tc
glance around at the rest of the
organisms which struggle for a
foothold upon the earth's sur
face, just to see how they stack
up, male and female.
Albeit grudgingly, a fair OBJ
server must admit that the teeth
the claws, stings and DISPOSE
tions amoung the lady faction of
the beast, birds, reptiles and in
sect world do rate a rather high
voltage when compared with
those of of their male compan-
ions. Intrusted by Nature with
the responsibility of looking to
the young, they were logically
given proper defense tools to
work with. Evidently in the job
OF apportioning these defense at
tributes where necessary, a bit
OF carelessness entered in, and
she was often endowed with abil-
tiles and instincts for which there
seems, to human observers, no
ogical reason for her having.
just why the hen mosquito of |
he virulent, disease carrying
varieties should be given the po-
yer of innoculation denied to the
male, is as inexplicable as it is
rue. Where the male of the FAM
~ merely sings and stings, the
emale goes him one better. She
lot only stings and sings, but
ives the victim malaria or vel
ow fever while she is about it.
there are certain feminine flies
redited with noticeably more VIC
Gus biting powers than their
masculine mates, while it is a
1ell-known fact that among the
eadly wallops packed by various
make families, that Of the lady
action is considerably more po4
ent and more likely to be forci-
ly distributed than that of the
espective men folks.
1t is interesting to note the
lmost human manner in which
ONE of these superiority equip
ed feminists exercise their suf-
eragette rights. The cold, life
sss corpses of masculine drones
7ing on hive doorsteps furnish
inclusive evidence of how gently
'lerant are the lady workers
1erein, toward masculine loafers
II whom the hive no longer has
ny need.
To the female member of one
oecial family of tropical spider,
and the title of being the most
unreasonable vicious representa-
We Of the sex which is univer-
bly, accused of being coldly and
llculatingly heartless. For a GER
lin period after matrimony, the
'ider couple seem to agree fair
well. They each swing head
,wnward, amiably catching and
'vouring unwary insects or
uttling out of sight at the ap-
'oach of danger. Neither seems
harbor any special grudge
'ainst the other, and, were it
t to the bridegroom, this per-
of felicity might prevail in
finitely.
Running true to sex, however,
e misses of the family grows
evishly fretful as her approach
8 motherhood draws near and,
usual, her nearest and dearest
$ to bear the brunt of her ir-
Perhaps she is exas-
rated by his Indifferent, un-
phathetic attitude, maybe she
mes him for her physical dis
Mort. It may be that she is
t sick of having him hanging
'und.
Whatever the reason, shortly
ore she gives birth to her
lncing baby spiders, she then
,cks her lord and master over
head, and then, while he is
| unconscious, she calmly sits
self down and eats him for
dinner. Any qualms she may
fer do not in the least inter-
e with her evident enjoyment
The meal he makes for her.
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