Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-26 | Page 3 | Ladylike Slam at Man

LADYLIKE SLAM AT MAN Pair Femininity Oan't Forgive Him for Being Disinclined to Sing and Dance. A writer In a lady's papor, having tired, one may presume, of abusing her own sex, has had a tiny knock at Man. Quito, you understand, a tiny knock. She does not say that he Is deceitful, or extravagant, ex-travagant, or vain, or cruel, or given to taking drugs, or to cheating at bridge, or any of tho other things thai, everybody hastens to admit are the monopoly of women. Mau, nevertheless. Is not perfect, per-fect, lie refuses to sing and ho refuses to dance. "Singing and dancing," snys she. "wore once indispensable to education; educa-tion; but now no gentleman can rouso himself to master cither accomplishment." accomplish-ment." The answer to this Is (hut no gentleman gentle-man over did rouse himself to master these accomplishments unless, us Is very rare, ho had a marked talent for thoin. Ou tho contrary, ho was roused. Cortaln afternoons in the week were sot aside for singing, cortaln evenings for dancing, and tho poor wretch was compelled to make a fool of himself because his parents had paid, tho extra Tec. There Is on moro ludicrous sight In the world than a roomful room-ful of schoolboys, ulnc-tcnths of thorn without tho slightest artistic ability of any sort whatever, struggling, undor pain of punishment, to sing or danco. Nowadays, nobody dreams of asking a man to slug who can't sing, but women still persist In believing that every man could danco beautifully, or at tho least passably, If ho wasn't so lazy. Tho mon who can dance, dance. Tho men who don't danco, can't, and never could. But what Is tho good of asking mothers to have respect for their daughters' toes? "Chicot" In tho London Sketch.