Show WOMEN MAKE POOR DETECTIVES A Secret Service Sinn Snrs the Opposite Op-posite Scat Molse Lour Spies From the New York Herald Women are not good detectives said an experienced secret service man on being be-ing asked his opinion To begin with begn there are many places to which a woman cannot go without exciting suspicion and this defeats her object at the outset but beyond this a woman Is unfitted by nature for dectective work In the first place she jumps at a conclusion con-clusion and acts on it in opposition to all human probabilities possibilities and reason As a rule a woman doe not reason She looks on a thins as she wants it to be or thinks it ought to be and will follow that theory She is led by prejudices preju-dices favors or sympathies regardless of facts factsAs a detective she is sometimes t success suc-cess in entrapping a man but her work generally ends in a blunder which betrays be-trays her She is persevering only when moved bv passions She does not look at a case dispassionately She at once decides that he or she is guilty or innc cent and works on that theory cent woman enjoys the myterious and she Is so elated at her position a detective de-tective that she is unable to conceal her identity case or the secret investigations of a Wowen are even failures lit running down criminals of their own sex A woman wo-man criminal will mislead a woman detective de-tective by working on her vanity credulity credu-lity or sympathy and worst of all if the detective be attractive and the man criminal handsome well a man Is bettor for detective work and besides n woman wo-man will sell out a case and cheaply at that relying upon her sex to escape punishment pun-ishment i detete J Jlv |