Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21

up of examples. The tricky brain i'm
mediately replies, Why, YES, most of
what you say is more or less SO, but to
me 1T seems that your data simply bear
out my case" (Of course, of course
All those cases show that some men.
mostly on the stage and in books. do
persistently run after women. The oues-
ton still remains, Why?"
Our correspondent has a bad habit of
mixing up real women and play and
book women, so we will untansle this
for him and state that we are discussing
here only such women in PLAYS and
novels. They were our original PROPOSE
ton. His manhandling of life and love
from the dawn of history to this very
present moment simply shows that some
men have liked and do like women who
are-er-rather unconventional in re-
gard to the love instinct.
Our three main questions of the
article in question were as follows. WHY
do plays give us select circle of man
friends In full pursuit of some Charming
female? We clamor to know why stage
characters persist in sticking too closely
and far too persistently to decadent
women. The main lady of this obese
play might have intrigued the doctor
for few tntrigles, coming and going.
but that he would have wrecked his
career for her or kept on loving her
after his passion had spent its novel
force is an idea that would occur only
to a playwright.
4 X X
The perSiStency of the fellows is the
one quality which always has amazed
our comforting home circle heart and
mind. Although none of these mighty
charmers has ever made passes at us,
we, too, have been more or less exposed
to the second-rate brilliant beams. We
have known several Knockouts who in
variably had an idea that all they had
to do was to look at nan-any man
to make him roll over and play dead.
The main Article in their Greed was
invariably the same: Any woman could
make a fool out of any man If she
wanted to. These females (and we call
them that to distinguish them from
women-no less an authority than Kip
ling called them vampires) were sex
conscious. They confused lust with love
and fondly patted themselves on the
back over it. 1t is probably true that
the average woman can make a fool
out OF the average man-once. Our
thesis is that the average man of anv
common sense at all, after he has had
fool made out of him for a time.
would wake up and come to himself
eve are not able to mass as many IA
nous names in given space as our
correspondent, but we can say offhand
that Seneca and Woodrow Wilson both
used thet phrase).
Yes, sir when the average male being
realizes that he has been making a fool
of himself he is perfectly willing to
sneak back to the wife of his bosom and
hope that nothing will be said about it.
n Nrfirn yxtf~
has something that the other woman
hasn't, namely, love and affection based
on something higher than physique,
doesn't say anything about it. The lure
OF novelty is something with which both
men and women have to contend in
this curious world.
1t seems to us that Count Muffat. in
1ola's Mana" is a good type of the
unnatural man who sticks too close to
the unnatural woman, and that lola,
represSed in love affairs, was a good
sample Of the sort of man who insists
on making character overdo 1t. per
hapS there is some obscure relation, too,
between the names Mana and Nina, VIC
don't know
The count undoubtedly would have
fallen for Mana, but that he would have
stuck to her to the bitter end we find
1t difficult to believe. Why would he?
We defy any reader to read Mana" two
times and feel that Count Muffat is a
true delineation of character. No, ne
is an inexperienced mans idea of how
an inexperienced man would act; that
is all. No man with an ounce of blood
in his veins would put up with Insult
from any women who ever lived, espe-
cially when his trusty old mind told
him that she was as vile a creature as
ever lived. Such women live, undoubt-
eddy, both in real life and in plays and
books, but that any decent man would
stick to them we continue to doubt.