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Show vidually, but it is the failing of the sex generally the impossibility of a woman treating a woman in any other way than as a rival or an antagonist. The woman in office cannot escape from herself.' She refuses to see, or cannot see, any difference differ-ence between a free, if tax paying, public pub-lic and her own family circle. She carries car-ries her home characteristics into public affairs, regarding men as the possessors of obnoxious latch keys, and women as the victims of them. Her clients are punished for her toothaches and responsible respon-sible for her dyspepsia. That she is compelled com-pelled to hold lowly office is the fault of the world, and the world must suffer for it. She knows that she is better than other women, aud demonstrates her superiority su-periority to anticipate their doubt, or the doubt that she has invented for them. This is not gallant, but, unfortunately, it is true. There can be no question that, with time, the faults indicated will be remedied; but, until they are, woman in office will be a constant exasperation to woman out of office. It is true that woman out of office is equally exasperating exasper-ating to woman in office, and the proverbial pro-verbial man's inhumanity to man is thus furnished with a parallel in woman's antagonism to woman. "Chatterer" in Boston Courier. WOMEN BEHIND THE DESK. om Man's Point of View How Oa Woman Treat! Another. It pains me to learn that woman in Bee is somewhat of a failure; at least in ew York. It seems that she carries to her official life certain traits that characteristic of her sex, but which e not in harmony with business affairs, i the first place, the woman official is iverely offensive to women, from whom ie exacts more than the legal pound of esh and for whom she shows a con-rapt con-rapt and lofty toleration that are out-de out-de the limits of law. The cause of this titude of woman against woman has s yet eluded the search of science and nfounded the theories of philosophy; id, to conclude, even I have no solu-cm solu-cm to offer. And yet, if we consider ie matter closely, wo shall find a rea-n, rea-n, if sot a cause. A man appears be-ire be-ire a woman in office already crushed; has absorbed all his courage to face licial femininity, and if he does not. ceiveallthe snubs and the contempt iat he is prepared for he is more disap-minted disap-minted than surprised. The woman behind the desk is an awe spiring object to the bravest man; she her sex plus authority, Charlotte Cor-'J Cor-'J and Minerva combined. She is not more imposing by reason of her office, itthe office is imposing because she fills ' because the office is herself. Such a mau may insist on anything unliinder-I unliinder-I of man. He is even content, at her muand, to concede that the earth is for the time being. Ho appears here he-re so much majesty in a commanding Utude; he waits her pleasure patiently fore receiving the postage stamp for I'.ich he applies, cash in hand; he sti- his haste to obtain his letters until sees fit to give them to him. For sse reasons the official woman does not ' out of her way to annoy or to torture aa; she accepts him as a worm, and be-"se be-"se he is weak she refrains from tread-f tread-f on him, and goes no further than to m & deaf ear to his application for let-ra let-ra 'or stamps, and to gorgonize him 'hherTennvunninn "sfnnv at.arfl A woman approaches the official vro- guarded window in a different atti-. atti-. ia fact in a belligerent attitude, tbe monarch of all she surveys re-"cs re-"cs her in an equally belligerent spirit. lo hungry dogs approaching the same newii give a fair idea of thesitua- The passive indifference shown to humble creature, man, no longer k; the adversaries both have thoir ! Bces in rest, and each is looking for ? eakest spot in the armor of the uer There 13 an ominous silence, lng which the fashion of garments fashion 'of features are criticised; w an ominous sniff, a snapping of an elaborate exhibition of a chip on e shoulder for opponents to remove S5' a lofty staring at tops of heads s ad of into eyes, an aggressiveness of cessive overpoliteness, the fine malice Preventing to the utmost the consum-3tonof consum-3tonof the object that both have at the overzealous desire to make a 1 and find it, to imagine an insult resent it, to compel insolence that J" the insult. Naturally, the women ' are not officials complain of the who are officials, and the woman fui the window complains of , the in front of it. 18 the serious danger tLat con-nts con-nts the woman who aspires for public -the weight that drags her down -w office. . The fault is hcutii- |