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Show STANLEY'S PECULIAR VIEWS. On the Snbjcct or Womanly Characteristics. Charac-teristics. tOorrwrondence of the PKtarr yi:trs.J The great explorer, Stanley, has some peculiar views on the subject of womanly characteristics, which will doubtless be quite as Interesting to your numerous readers as the report of his early days or his latest explorations. According to a letter written by hluj just beforo hb last departure, and published In the HimaVsCtyefc.ho Eceni) lo prefer encountering a jungle tiger, or a Kaffir warrinr dre-se.1 in a string of beads to meeting a soft voiced, tender ten-der faced woman,foras he expresses It: "Women appear to me so soft, so very unlike (at least what I have seen) the rude typeof mankind, that one soon feels when talking to them that he must soften his sjieecli and drawl or affect a slngu-Jar slngu-Jar articulation lest offense be taken where none was intended. Hence men are seldom sincere to wumen. H'l am absolutely uncomfortable uncom-fortable when epeaklugtoawoman unless she is such nj-jruiW that she will let rue hear some common sense. The fact Is I can't talk to women. In their presence I am just as much of a bypocnte as any I other man, aud it galls me that I must act and be aflected and parody paro-dy myself for no other reason but because I think, witli other men, that to act or sjak otherwise would not be appreciated. It Is such a fnl-e lositiiin that I do not care to put myself into il. Stanley is quite a traveler, but there Is an undiscovered country he lias never explored, w hose labyrinth he has never threaded, w hose mystical, mysti-cal, in ricate river courses he has uevtr traced, whose mountains of inspiration aud vallejs of despair ho has never measured, and which might prove as difficult of Invasion, as wonderful in revelation revela-tion as the interior of tho dark continent, con-tinent, and that is the heart of a woman, for lie says further, "For the life of me I cannot sit still a moment when anything approaching approach-ing to love is on the tapis. One woman alone has this peculiar mau of fame to whom he can speak, fcr after the first few mlnutts cr strangeness have gone, she soon lets you know that chaff won't do," and he concludes his singular letter by sending to this friend a message; "p'easesay n hearty friend wishes her daily enjoyment of her life." Stanley, in my opinion, la more at home in Africa's wilds, than hois among the noblest work of God' creation. Dr. John Cooic. Lake Sifonn, Dec. 2Ub, ISO). j&aMMHMMiiittaBBBBB |
