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Show NOTES ON WOMEN I By Alexander Harvey. Men show their youth and laex-perieace..wBenthey laex-perieace..wBenthey regard any relation re-lation with a women as a sort of game to be played by "an exaisttven of superior skill, . Never let, women hire yeiato a lie. Women take refuge 'ta'Mea because be-cause their sense of nrealltf .is, detective de-tective or, rather, the. reality with which' they are in" Intimate contact la not the reality ot men, the real-Ityjwlth real-Ityjwlth which men deal. Hence accuracy ac-curacy of statement is ot less Importance Im-portance morally in a woman's life than, a man's. Never, then be lured by a woman Into telling a He. Always Al-ways be truthful to a woman. It gives a man an extraordinary power over her. Even very bad women love to be treated as if they were very good and they will become good for the sake ot your approval. But the woman wo-man who can be very good or rather seem very good for your sake can be very wicked for some other man's sake. The man who presumes upon accident acci-dent or circumstances to become familiar fa-miliar with a woman or to treat herewith any lack of personal respect is 'intellectually second rate. A woman loves to see a man work. She has more respect for a man who can work than she has for a man who can love. She can teach a man to make love. She cannot teach a man how to work. Few delusions respecting women are more credited than the one which attributes to them a sneaking respect for a rake. The difficulty ln teaching a man any truth respecting women Is found In the fact that what Is worth knowing know-ing about them involves a platitude. For instance, the assertion that only good women are worth while is a platitude and how truel Women always estimate too high- . ly the power of a women's beauty over a man, Beautiful .women are not desired nearly as much as the poets would' haye us suppose. However, How-ever, most delusions respecting women wom-en aro disseminated by tho poets. - " s In, the long run, a woman is the best Judgo of a man. j A man never 1 finds out Just which woman lovedHim until ho Is so weary of lovol Clever remarks about women ure not necessarily true. Middle aged women give the most Joy to their lovers. ..That seems very odd and la a circumstance worthy of our closest scrutiny, but for some strange reason it remains neglected. Only a vulgar man ever befools a woman In love. On the other hand, a capacity for Jove is rare, like a capacity for. statesmanship or poetry. How strange women aret That Is the conclusion to which ! men come, provlde'd they have studied women wo-men to any purpose. I have talked about women with many men who knew them and in the end they arrived, ar-rived, In some form or other, at the, samo conclusion; how strange worn- en are! fl Never lose a fear of women, & eea4Lot,thena.'.a,species ot ae "I ?&? k" fate or "" tamer e lions whathrough familiar- ity with Mch jwerful creatures I grew eareless and was devoured. ' - ' ' - 4 p (, 'I No man ever persuaded a woman to J 40 TM". want to do. Many a woman heepersuaded a man to do what he hated eiren to think of. In general, It seems truo tha women despise a man who allows them to persuade him Into a course condemned by his own Judgment. There is, too, the odd fact to con-aider con-aider that women think very little of the man who permits-his infatuation to carry him too far. Of course, In-'fatuatlon, In-'fatuatlon, must go far yet not to far. The trouble Is to know' whore tb draw the line. The man who knew was Mark Antony, but he was mature and so was the woman for whom ho threw the world away. To love and to have one's love returnedthat re-turnedthat is lite, The rest Is not worth while, even to Napoleon. Who would not prefer the lips ot tho uom- " an who. yields them gladly, to many; victories like AnaterllUT The qualities of men that appeal most, to, women are noble qualities. Jeauswen.the love of more women than Den Juan ever even met. The victories won by a nan over a woman are' always too dearly paid for. Test carefully before b'ltoUnp it, any statement regarding women that comes to you In tho form ot an epigram. |