Show f 9 1 S Sensitiveness ete The e Sensitiveness Of Woman Is Responsible for B Q D th D Dix 1 I i iI By Dorothy I MaY Many Social Wars ad and I I Responsible for Her Failure 1 i in Business Dy y i oro y IX I ErV ErVI I L I I Some Sonic women nomen seem to have lived in ina inU a U walled garden where sensitiveness is I cultivated QUALITY in the feminine makeup NO N has wrought its possessor more mor trouble thun sensitiveness yet H it I has ever Ever beon been one ole of ot woman 3 chief charms Novelists endow enow their heroines with of oC it poets picture t the e ideal female femal ag as a highly hl strung harp that vibratos vibrates to every eer breath of feeling that blows aero is It I and women them themselves themselves selves play their sensitiveness across the board of life Ue as a kind of t glorified hanch hOnch h enables Enables them to de do d without ivaton nason I aon as a I guide Undoubtedly Un In Ha l place and in small maJ I and aId 3 muted quantities sensitiveness IP ir I a valuable quality It li Is the salt talt il that sa savors savors savors vors existence and that also when wo we woj j 1 get too much of it I spoils it i for us u A woman whose soul was covered with wih a pachyderm cuticle would he be as little ad adi as one with a com corn complexion but on the tho other hand it I is possible to pay too highly for pink aid ard a d white cheeks cheek py and our admiration n turns to loathing pr the woman who Is nothing but nerves neres and feeling fe ln Yet thanks to the ion or ol te sensitiveness and the consequent nt ilva Lion tion ton of it I by b women society is overrun venn by bythe bythe bythe bY the lady who is nothing but a quivering throbbing bunch of emotions Like Playing with Dynamite She it I is who renders conversation as hazardous an amusement as playing with wih dynamite No topic Is safe whon when she is around She scents sc hidden innuendoes and covert criticisms in the most casual statement Let Lt some Bomo one for instance speak of a current scandal or corruption in politics or any tny other matter of every ever day gossip und and she turns pale and bristles briste up and you recall with horror that her aunts hus husbands husbands husbands bands third cousin is divorced from his wife we or her grandfather was a Justice of the peace and that she has taken your our remarks remar s as a personal slight The sensitive woman Is also the th great geat I bar to hospitality because beca se you Ic nt al alI alwa I ways wa have her and ad you dare dar not not leave leae her out In your Invitations Your Yo f dining room recta rom may my be so zo 10 small smal that tl f wd it iti i but if I she lg ig II not one of gIvs 1 you a frigid deal eal when you ou attempt in il vain to explain Oh of ot course she says says I with an a emphasis on the I dont expect to tobe be in invited n riLed w when hen anything real r mart ii J I don dont t pretend to be b fashionable tc etc etC O tf She Dotes on nc Getting in Trouble And so it goes goe until you get tired tred of I apologizing and pass her up for some someone someone t one who has fewer ferer feelings and more moro I sense tense I In J church c rl and club clu the sensitive I woman Is i the firebrand that has ha started I Ithe the conflagration that cremated many a good cause Argument is simply out of I the question queston with her So S Is justice 80 So is isan any an consideration of else rights Everything resolves itself into a matter mater of feeling with wih her he and ad her hr hr feelings are arc In ln a state stat of chronic inflammation Anyone might think that Just jut as a blind man would not undertake to cross cros the trestle or a lame one on get in front of ot ofa ota ofa a racing automobile so the sensitive woman woman would be b careful about taking her precious feelings into a place where they would be liable lable Jo o get set hurt But she goes on doing it I ana then when the te expected happens happen she gathers athers up u her doll dol rags and goes home po no matter how much she puts ther other people out by It i The sensitive woman w man also alo shines chines with wih peculiar brilliancy in the domestic sphere Marriage Is one long picnic to her She simply bristles with opportunities for get set getting getting ting her feelings hurt If l her husband is busy and preoccupied she weeps be because b because cause he has cea c ceased ed d to love her If I he refuses refuse to chase chas around to balls bals and parties parte with wih her after a hard days work she bemoans herself herel as a poor neglected wife wie If I her husband Is unwary enough to praise prise any other woman she flings into Inlo a a jealous rage aryl and demands to know why he marry marr ar the other woman If it he admires her ber so much much Sensitiveness is not recognized as a suf sufficient sufficient cause cuse for divorce but chief among I I b f i iS a S l i J I j l I L LI I v t r I I I I II I i y j I 4 f 1 f f N ci t I I Ip Ir c t r r 1 2 dJ p c i I n hj i J r LT r i 1 r J h r dJ 1 I 1 the saints and ad martyrs are the men m h who ho hoare are doomed to t live lve with wih wives ing lug feelings For the working woman sensitiveness spells failure every ever time Let every ever girt girl gIr who Is thinking of going Into the world to earn her hf he own living first examine word her herself self on this point pint H If I going to bo be b ashamed bf of her work ad d take mortal morl offense every ev r time any an body refers refer to her bel as a working woman If she is going to insist on everybody In the th store and office treating her as al if I she were a debutante at a pink tea If I she is 18 going to feel cut every ever time the rich woman to whom she sells sels gloves over the tho counter falls aUs to bow bw to her in the street If she sho Is going to get hurt and weep every time the man she typewrites for corrects I hor her mistakes and swears at her spelling I in a a word wor if I she sho is thoroughly armed ared with fine susceptibility at every ever point pint then for fot goodness sake let her stay at home and protect her feelings and keep out of the way of ot busy people Its Simply Excessive Vanity The fact Is that Is nothing but superabundant vanity and 1 women have cultivated it to its finest i flower fower because heretofore they have lave lived In a walled wailed garden garen where this thia pe po peculiar culiar cu ar form of exotic could be cherished A great reat many people deprecate the en V i j c W H 7 c r II III I 1 I ff N The Tle sensitive oman sToman renders you con conversation eu euer er as ns hazardous as UN I i playing with wih dynamite trance of woman into the arena of public affairs on the ground gound that U It I wilt will wU harden her and dull dul her exquisite sensibility Lt Let us trust so It I is the most hopeful prophecy that can possibly be bo made for fot forthe for the future te The world will wi be bc a cheerier and mora mor comfortable place in which to live Uve when women take down the Keep Off the Grass signs by which they thoy now sur surround surround surround round themselves and one can disport ones self in the pleasure of their society without fear of ot setting a devastating foot fot on any sensitive plant plant |