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Da general principles, writes Evelyn Sharp in the Manchester Gaurdian, 10- body can wish to diminish the gaiety of

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if only for the sake ne that resumably more anlightened younger generation that will soon come knocking at the door of a changed world. This suggestion, however is not put for ward very hopefully, for it was only at few days ago that loud laughter reported to have been roused in a law court by a witness who quoted Lord Kil three vin as having said that there are insoluble mysteries-acoustics, old mas- ters, and women."

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I have little doubt that there were women in that law court who joined in But the laughter against themselves. why did anyone laugh? If it were true that women are nuire mysterious than men (it can be assumed with certainty that one of the laughter was occasioned by of masters or acoustics) this might he interesting paychologically, but it should not be funny. Do peuple laugh, then, because such generalities universally false, or simply breause any remark made about women is held to be funny, woman berseli being the great eternal joke that never dies?"

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It is hard to say. The incontestable, fact that seems to emerge from one's per plexity is that this class of joke goes back Far over the centuries and knows neither nationality or age. It is to be found in East and West. among the civilised and the harbarie, before Christ, and long after Christ. Shakespeare is a bad offea- der; so are all the classics. For craft and treachery a woman's best." says Aegisthus in Agamemnon." While in Chaucer we have-

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Or you go to an election meeting (as did last week), and End the candidate asking women to cativass for him, on the ground of Eve's persuasiveness in her dealings with Adara. (Very loud laugh- ter" greeted this brilliant sally, and so one pointed out the obvious analogy be tween the fall of man and the implied sin of voting for him.) But, necording to the eternal joke, woman is the subject of deri sion on other grounds also, ali" of them bad... She cannot, of course, keep secret Cato, the Sage and the Sovere Critick, prayed cften. That the Gods would pardon him if he had been so Im have learnt to regard one another as com. prudent as

trust the least Secret to arades, cannot reasonably be expected to Woman," writes Populain de la Barre in see anything funny in this picture of woman as a liar, a cheat, a traitor, a his "Egalite des Deux Sexes (1673).

coward, and a gossip, still less to bec She is thoroughly inconstant.Con anything lovable in her. stant you "are, but yet a woman," was a compliment that probably eroked roars "groundlings" of laughter from the when Henry IV. was produced. She always pretends to be younger than she i9. They say women and music should never be dated," was Goldsmith's appeal to a similar sense of humour in She Stoop's to Conquer.". She is a gossip and wanderer; her tongue is the laughing: stock of every nation. "A, woman's i tongue is her sword, and she does not: let it rust" happens to be a Chinese proverb. but you may find something like it in the common sayings of every nation under the BUG Then, too, she is capri- cious, but at the same time known no. moderation in her emotions. She either loves or hates-she knows no mean,” as Seneen put it for succeeding generations. Swift adds to this another ancient joke against women: I never yet knew a tolerable woman to be fond of her own SCX."

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Here, however, women writers are by no means guiltless. "I think it is the cowardice of women that makes them such intense batera," wrote Mrs. Inmesen in her Common-place Book (1854). And Jane Austen, or rather Jane Austen's heroines, do not fail to carry on the tradi-- tion of this monstrous shifting of com mon faults or to the shoulders of women only, and then making a joke of it.

-THE CAUSE OF THE LACCHTEX.

It seems, however, to have been felt necessary now and again to seek some explanation for the fact that this deter table creature was still allowed to live and was in fact to be found in every home. As far back as 1600 William Ber ther was writing in his "Nobylytye off Wymen." that the beyugynge upp and the traynenge of woman's lyffe is o straight and kept as in pryson that the good inclynation wch there have of nature is utterly queachyd." In which he was the forerunner of Bernard Shaw's "Home is the girl's prison and the woman's work-house and of Meredith's She is a creature more savage remark, of the apparent moods and shifts and tempers only because she is kept in nar row confines, resembling, if you will, a wild cat caged. All three have put their finger on the real significance of the loud laughter." that has resounded throughout the ages whenever the name of woman was mentioned. ·.·

Real equality, of course, is the only thing that can silence this particular. crackling of thorns. Vague generalitios about men or women cease to be Juany directly men and women cease to be two separate groups and become simply human beings. The younger generation, frooping out of the schools and colleges and offices and workshops, where they (Continued on next column.)

Yet, so strong is the force of habit, and so much stronger still is the fear of ap- pearing young and peculiar, that I would not really trust more than one in a dozen of them not to join thoughtlessly in the

loud laughter that is roused next time some old-fashioned wit perpetrates this kind of mess-grown pleasantry in their hearing. That is why the eternal joke takes such a long time to die.

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