Show 1YOXEN IN COURT ROOMS No Trial Too Ghastly in Details to Prevent Pre-vent Their Attendance Among the crowds that pack aj steaming steam-ing ill ventilated court room at a sensational sensa-tional murder triaLthere are always numbers num-bers of women None more persistent thanthey in gaining entrance jvhethor by the use ot shoulders and elbow ia the crowd or by discovering circuitous routes by means of introduction or acquaintance through the side door Through all ghastliness of details they sit the most interested of all I spectators either the comments of men nor the criticisms of newspapers disturb their presence This manifestation manifesta-tion of unwholesome interest on the one hand and of indifference on the other has been regarded asa new and inexplicable transformation in the womanly nature which is by nature gentle tender and averse to witnessing human suffering Any possible solution of the development of such unlovely traits is referred to her new born ideas of emancipation and independence in-dependence assumption of the rights and privileges of men This view seems hasty and illfounded Without ransacking ran-sacking history it is sufficient to recall Geromes picture Police Verso and the faces of furies that the vestal virgins wear as with thumbs turned down they give the signal for a fight to a finish Whoever has read Walter Scott knows how women thronged to see the poor wretches swing No stage representation of a witch burning burn-ing or a Puritan scaffold would be considered con-sidered correct without eager women surging about the base In Spain no woman hesitates to go to a bull fight and the peril of the bull fighter only give zest to the scene Hangings are now private the bull fight is prohibited in this country coun-try The court room has taken the place of tho arena in those spectacles of human anguish of deadly dramatic conflict I which no gloss of civilization has yet covered cov-ered from view in the human breast The rise of the novel with its pictured woes has done something to fill thi need but imagination fails to satisfy where the eye can rest and the mind can feed opon the actual spectacle When women throng the court room their presence w only the indication of the persistence of that primal nature that they hold in common with manNezt York Evening Sun |