Show through a eyes by jean A caeton ARE MEN UNMANLY TUB reason why women bate men is that they are so unmanly 1 that startling opinion 3 given in a recent magazine article by ada pat terson who claims that more women than men possess the qualities which we call manly A woman we are told cannot love the average man if she knows him to be what women manly he must be brave and strong and loyal and kind and in all things adequate which to aery woman s sorrow he most certainly Is not and for proof miss patterson points to the unmanly weakness of most men are guilty vanity selfish ness love bf flattery all of which accusations against men are true of and yet we do not agree with ada surely we don t abat women hate and despise them whatever hating there Is I 1 think must be on the part of the half baked woman the young and in experienced girl to whom manliness constitutes nothing less than godliness and whose dream of her sweetheart or husband as a young god has deeo rudely interrupted by the emergence of a human man A mature woman like ada patterson should know bet terl lio women don t hate men and if men are unmanly the trouble Is with the definition how many of us for instance would be womanly if womanliness meant perfection and the point about most men which proves such a disappointment to worn en a preconceived notion of man ainess Is that in some ways they nev er grow op it Is true that a man s vanity Is a necessary to him as oxygen just like the child who Is terribly agitated about being the biggest strongest str onest beet it Is true that men are far more susceptible to flattery than women while only the most foolish women full for it it Is the rare man who Is above it but all children loe it it Is true that men are lolos sally unconsciously it has been said that the leat man puts the most selfish woman in the sande it tomes to and 1 t be surprised t hut there you have the child colossally unconsciously selfish ditto illogical ness do we hate children for those atles leavens nol ve would not be so selfish fm do we hate men ahe more womanly we are the more those atry which disassociate a man from a god to our material instinct 1 adequate in nil things men moot certainly are not but that doean doesn t necessarily make them if by manliness we mean being brave and strong and loyal and kind man ly men there most certainly are in this world and their name la lesion 1 men alio regard every woman as a goddess are bound to be disappointed ve cannot be goddesses hut we can he women and womanly if we do not flatter and men by expelling them to he goda we hal be lie better to appreciate the in them 0 by the bell syndicate inc |