| Show the woman tempting how evident it is that weare we are all descended from adam I 1 wo do not n need e ed the subtleties of ethnologists nor non northe the doomas dogmas of doctrinaires doctrin aires alres to make the t hing thing certain A fatla fatia fathers ers face is repeated in his chii cili clit chil 11 1 his gestures are his of th thought ought his tricks of speech it is unnecessary for nil ail angel to des descend aces with the living jiving coal in hand tu ln lay upon some prophets lips that he may declare the parentage it is unnecessary for a philosopher to made deductions duct ions and draw parallels anil anu ana confute impossibilities to the sama same end the thing is manifest they are coins struck in obedie one die and aud certainly we hardly need anything more especial to demonstrate our descent from the man who hid bid himself behind a scantier fig leaf than the fig tree bears when he declared in the face of hla hia accuser the woman gave gage gave me and I 1 did eat for it is the first excuse that rises to the lips of most oras ofA ilams iJams sons today to day mose if he had not had bad greater messaged messages to bear would have needed for that one masterful stroke in masculine delineation no further inspiration than that given riven by his own observation and his acquired knowledge of human nature which taught him that the not unusual man will never fail fall to ishel shelter ter himself behind the object that ther there els eis is tor lor shames sake tacit compact to leave leavo struck un and belongs to some corps corpa like that old army which went into battle with its children and its gods in front on which no gallant enemy liked t to open fight the spanish h ring king who always when any trouble arose asked who is she originated nothing he only followed in his forefathers 8 ibie steps he held hold that it was impossible a man should make a fool of himself unless there were a woman in the case and he advised all men in all difficulties to get behind that screen and others do as he did does a young man lead a dissolute life vindication is ready for him when it is said that he lie would not lead it if there were not a woman to hold out temptation he could not lead it if there were not the woman to allure nobody has a word for that woman who could gould hardly create the youths demand does an old man live iivo days of self indulgence home and his duties there for gay guy life and wine and cards the head is shaken in p pity ty for the poor fellow whose home is is made eo unattractive by the woman presiding there or so unhappy that he is driven from it to those baser haunts nobody baya saya that his home ia unattractive it is his duty to make it attractive that neither law nor nature matur e gives him the right to hold himself like an eastern pasha for the women to fawn upon to soothe and flatter and delight that there is a mutuality in all ali all nil things and if he would do a little of the soothing and delighting himself himelr lie he would find his home growing more attractive every day instead of less so does a mall man commit one dishonor and another barter power for gold sell his fair fame for money not a voice is heard dee declaring laring that the manawas man was tired of honest poverty with its labors needs struggles tumults that he wanted the comfort which assurance of wealth gives preferred it and took the risks that he loved his costly wines his luxurious dinners his hia fast last horses his i nine fine man his full bank bauk ban account everybody without dissent avows that his wine wife wanted her diamonds and her worth dresses and to sweep like a queen through society eyen even when the charge is not openly made in outrageous words the dark supplies its place and we are given to understand that it is 19 the pettiness the gross ap appetite etite the vanity of the woman te that a t Is 14 at fault it is never the sin 0 of f the maii mati man in all this there 19 18 is 19 an horrible injustice it is the lion that writes the book and reads it too for even were it true which we are disposed utterly to deny it is also true that woman is at present only the mirror of mans wish and what she fihe ia Is he has made her if sh she a has pettiness it is because the heavy band hand has kept her down so closely that largeness is unattainable by her what grossness she bhe has was not hers bers in the beginning it has grown by ministering to the grossness of those who could enforce it if she has vanity and love of dress dresa and display not women but men are responsible for it the men who give their admiration their attentions their time t their mir dovd to the pretty and well dressed women and let the plain aud and quiet woman who is iq not pt so agreeable an object toffie tot bie fie eyesight an d so pleasant la a hl to the senses generally gb go to the wall it is after aily ally giving too much potency to so feeble feebie fe eblean an instrument to claim that if this man mak makes es a fool of himself and that one makes a wreck of and the other dishonors his name and his life ilfe a wonifat woman is at the root of it all my son said maid an old grecian Is the ablest man in the state for he lie ha ba his mother in subjection lils his uis 1 mother has me in and I 1 have bave overcome miltiades Mil liades 11 the same principle applied here hero woultz make a woman wield a power which none in reality accard accord h her e r she rhe is not the lord of bud aud if she had bad but her equal place beside iddo that lord allowed we mje should hear bear no more of this cow cowardly ardly cry the woman gave me and I 1 did eat diar Ilar harpere perr perl B zar |
