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Show gaw mbiibuh'bj bbm in i w iisjjMBMMtMaaaHBMca?aM3MiinMigHiMitiijii aaiicaPMaaagpcBaBMKiiMaBaBaaaj L AMMIE IFffiE'S RAGTIME On Woman-Haters. A local paper last Monday published an account of a number of young men In Salt Lake who have formed a club which Is to bo known as the "Wonwn-I Liters. " In order to distinguish themselves from tho rest of mankind, each of them Is to Wear B red button In the Inpel of his coat Any one of them who shows the same decency de-cency to a female that he would to a man or a child or a l.g it to be subject to a tine. Marrying Is out of the nue.s-tlon. nue.s-tlon. No one of these youths Is to be Boon walking with, or talking to, or waiting wait-ing upon one of tin- fair sex. Verily, these are the woman-haters! The society has not annOUOCOd win tin r It will bar out the mothers of Its members, mem-bers, as. biing women, and therefore subject sub-ject to their animosity, but upon looking at the ages of the youths, which In no eao excieds years, it is doubtful whether the society will go so far as to cut ofT this valuable mo m of pancakes, hot biscuits, mended socks and trousers, and such practical and Indispensable things of life it was given to ii.e monka of old to hold up their hands in horror win ii tin ir nndin rs naked admittance to tlnir preaeuca, Which they unhesitatingly refused, hut since there has been no announcement an-nouncement tO the effect that tllCM,- tiOUlar young men have chosen a cert ln cava in the mountains neat Bait i.ake in Whh h to dwell and lead a In I mil s life. It nut) be reasonably supposed tb.it moth-era moth-era bae not been ostracised from their preaence and favor forever,, Doubt lesa there will be large member- ship In this club as soon as Its object is known, that Of avoiding v "im ilklnd. as tl are many advantage to be gained by so doing. Think of the lea cream soil. so-il. is to b saved in t summer by thcan boys win. will not have in tn-ut a female frlond. (The woman-hater usually refers to woman as a "female ' Think of the nice moonlight strolls each of thne boys can have by himself while his uninitiated IrKud aita ou tbu UvviaUy with. Alaty i Jones. Imagining himself unutterably happy hap-py because he Is In possession of one of her. little hands. Think of what lovely picnics those boys can have next summer up the canyon on some high ellfT where no female would dare to climb. But of course Saltalr Is out of trrrs question ques-tion for those boys, for females are apt to ko ilnie. and not only that, but tln-v are upt tO make the water in Great Salt Lake unfit for a man to hathe in by occupying oc-cupying a portion Of il themselves. And it would not " pleasant I" go to the theater, the-ater, for deluded managers still insist on having female actrc-scs. and this feature would BpoU tho play, and, besides, most plays are wrllt' n with love as a plot It WOUld not he well to walk out on the principal streets in d.i light, as some female fe-male Is bound to he fraTpeaSjlng around, and might even attempt to speak to one of the "Woman -Hat era." The bicycle races might b all right If the boys could be conveyed thON In a closed carriage, and have a closed booth In which to 1 1t M the fun. Of course these young men have burned all the photographs of their former female fe-male frlenda, Only masculine faces now adorn tin ni which tin y like to call a "den." Milk and cream must be dlspeueil with for coffee and berries, bec&Ufee the animal which provides them is a female. In speaking of B ship or a City, tin as young men will use the word "he" instead', in-stead', of "she," as also In speaking of lady moon. Of course, a tabulated list of things tO be avoid' d and substituted will form a part of ths by-laws of the "W'o-man-IIntor cluh." And this club reminds m of a few thlnga 1 have learm-d M.uiv n man avows hie Intention to become be-come a w oninn-hater In the pride of bis first mustache. When a voung man says that he hates all woman, you mav be sure that, one of tln h.-x has given him a fall, or a serious Jogging, Some in. n Imagine that It gives them on atmosphere i.f superiority and power to declare themselves free from the blandishments blan-dishments of til" ,iipnslt' 'V The only r .il MSoman-haf er Is not young, and he has a soul that looks like an angleworm. When a man continually mistreats a - i woman, and the woman allows It, the man begins to hate her. When a man kvea a good woman with all his heart he must grow spiritually, mentally, physically and materially LOve is tho strongest pushing force In existence. exist-ence. Wqen a man becomes B woman-hater, to be consistent he should become a man-hater, man-hater, for all women are born good, and you mav depend Upon It that tin to Is a man behind almost every Haw and Imperfection Im-perfection In her character and life. You never saw B man who really loves women in that princely, tender fashion, who Is not attractive to hla own BOX. The biggest men In history wore never worm wo-rm i. -haters It acts the same with women, for that matter. The woman who hatee pi on i-shriVeled i-shriVeled up Inside iik a last year's apple ap-ple hanging on a tree in the springtime. If a man Is so Contracted Inside that In cannot grow greater with grief over lost love, then he Is too small Inside for tin-only tin-only l"c worth while. If a man loses the woman In- desires, and therefore becomes a woman-hater, It Ik well for the kx. ror lie would never have I,, en a real woman- appreciator. And. dually. I cannot really believe these Salt Lake youths are women-haters, for there ar-- but fw of those, The man who does npl lov whisky has no need to publish the fact by wearing a white ribbon rib-bon In his button-hoe, nor does he have t,, eros the Btreat to get away from the temptation of n saloon. |