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THE THINGS MEN SAY.
SOME HISTORIC GIBES AT WOMEN.
THE STREAKED, COMPLIMENT. In Dud of her recently published letters Lady lituan, Thackeray's daugh ter, tells & currespondent that she had been out to dimmer and sat next to Str Witham Harcourt, who easil "aggravat ings things about women, as usual pricks are notoriously harder to bear than the deep wounds of abuse. Mr. Arthur Symonshow
has had terrible noments, in
of mea many
of
genius have dealt Disely with the quest o izę repulsiveness women. A general charge of repulsiveness can be borne with equamity. It is more dimeult to indies sex than a whole nation, and women do not feel it incumbent to be of apologetic and miserable for the sins od members of their community any mbre than men feel it a necessity to Emily blue Wear
spectacks Bronte once created a villain and liken- ed his evil
because
heil. The to the cloudy windows of indictdient of woman as a sex has gone on merrily from Simonides who differentiated between women made up of canine particles, the materials that enter into the composition of a fox, and the ingredients
which
prodauged women
to Schopenhauer, who
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en muhart. most thorough and incurable
Tolstoy, who is philistines," and
most
sweeping of all:"I shall one day write about women. When I am
quite old and my digestion is
and I am still lompletely out of order out into the world through one eye, then I shall pop my bead out and tell them. That's what you are! and then pop it in again or they would peck me to death."
tura
For the best answer to general detua- ciation perhaps women caandt do better than
to the
pages of the "Heart of Midlothian
Like all rogues, he was a great calumniater, of the fair 'sex."
ing
CLOTHES. COOKERY, AND CHILDREN.
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The things which annoyed Lady Ritchie are in a very different category. Per haps the most tiresome of all was uttered by William Morris. There are two things about which women know absolute. ly nothing dress and cookery. Their twist isn't that way. They have no LLL of colour or grace in drapery, and they never invented a new dish or fatin to To understand- half spoil an old one.
of clothes and cookery women have laid claim as well as to a special knowledge of children and skill in their treatment. It is annoying to find Jeremy pooh-poohing the claim, and in- to Mrs. Jeremy Taylor that he can be much the better mother of the two on
wel general
QS · on particular grounds: Mothers soften their child- ren with hisses imperfect noises, and with the breast milk of soft endearments. They rescue
them from tutors and snatch them from discipline. They de sire to keep them fat and warm, and their feet dry and their bellies full; and then the children, govern, and cry. and prove
fools and
troublesome, and this shall happen so
AR
1public does end. Is the feminine re
With his usual chivalry, Mr. Gosse has suggested that 1 Jeremy Taylor had not thought wet feet negligible and a finely masculine con- dition the dreadful mortality which pre- sently pursued his little children night have been averted.
The things that bare been said about women's looks, and their preoccupation with them, acquire an additional harsh- ness because so many of them have come from men from whom, one would least expect vexation. There is, for instance, Charles Lamb's famous pronouncement
"God bless them, and
women,
upo He makes any more, make em "when
w ped and when William Cowper prettier."
reo-
turns aside from his cats and his sofas to discourse upon a subje unsuited to his genius as face-painting, and
Is virtuous in sons that painted face is
be adds France and immoral in England, he
rider to the effect that eren in England A husband choose that his wife should paint it might be her duty to comply. In no other case, however, can I imagine the practice in this country to be either expedicns or convenient
the
It
is hard to imagine a more sunoying. ory than that a husband should be the arbiter of the powder-bowl and the Touge-pot.
After taunts about clothes, cooking, child- ren, and complexions, perhaps the next most aggravating thing" is the insinua- tion that if the highest possible compli ment is required for a woman she mus? of be labelled a man-as in the epitaph Maria Theresa of Austria. În sex a "and the woman, in abilities a mou," famous panegyric of the French Duebess. She has all the qualities of a man,
discreet, "enemy to all
generous by all the Royal Family,
but that her true approximation was fixed in France by La Rochefoucauld, with his eternal des femmes et les jeunes. get, and in England by Lord Chester- field, Women are below men and above children, but nearer to the latter." Goethe's little gibe that the public must be treated like women and children and but what they be told absolutely nothing like to bear is
is scarcely logical, since it women and children are subtracted only
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which require the oil of pleasant speak and having endowed her with all virtue ing: Perhaps it was of such logic Ar. and knowledge he concludes You will Shaw was thinking when he said that waste with pleasure whole days in her woman reduces us all to the same com spezety. mon denominator
THE OPINION OF SENSIBLE MEN:
Goothe was never more annoying than
Perhaps the chief aggravation of these when he tried to pay a complimenty nggravating things is their persis Women are silver dishes into which sence. Only a little while ago a deputa men put golden fruits," or when, having tion of women who desire greater official, Helighted his country women with the influence in the Church had their clai charm of his female characters, be bade disposed of by a quotation from on them understand that
idea of
women is not abstracted from the phentaigne Wom
Women are And if persis
to
'omena of actual life. They are all better tence is an
than could be found in reality.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL In the realm of Sir William ESTCourt'e intolerable. Here, as nigtit be aggravating thing the little streak it is Samuel Butler who has played the Boston 1923,
Revised by the Members across the compliment takes high place arth tantaliser. All sensible men are Sir Thomas More once enshrined in s of the same opinion about women." Ind delightful poem the picture of the woman no enable man ever says what that whom he would, have his friend marry opinion is.-G.M.A. m the Manchester
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