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Show NOTES ON WOMEN (Continued from page 5.) A man never finds out just which woman loved him until he is so weary of love'! Clever remarks about women are not necessarily neces-sarily true. Middle-aged women give the most joy to their Tovers. That seems very odd and is a circumstance circum-stance worthy of our very closest scrutiny, but for some strange reason it remains neglected. Only a vulgar man ever "befools a woman in love. On the other hand, a capacity for love is rare, like a capacity for statesmanship or poetry. How strange women are! That is the conclusion con-clusion to which all men come, provided they have studied women to any purpose, t have talked about women with many men who knew them and lr did they arrived, In some form or other, at same conclusion: how strange women are! Never lose a fear of women, a dread of them, a species of awe. Otherwise one risks the fate of the tamer of lions who, through familiarity with such powerful creatures, grew careless and was devoured. No man ever pesuaded a woman to do what she did not want to do. Many a woman has persuaded a man to do what he hated even to think of. In general, it seems true that women despise a man who allows them to persuade him into a course condemned by his own judgment. judg-ment. There is, too, the odd fact to consider that women think very little of the man who permits his infatuation to carry him too far. J course, infatuation, must go far yet not too far. The trouble is to know where to draw the line. The man who knew was Mark Antony, but he was mature and so was the woman for whom he threw the world away. To love and to have one's love returned that is life. The rest is not worth while, even to Napoleon. Who would not prefer the lips of the woman who yields them gladly, to many victories vic-tories like Austerlitz? The qualities of men that appeal most to women are noble qualities. Jesus won the love of more women that Don Juan ever even met. The victories won by a man over a woman are always too dearly paid for. Test carefully, before believing it, any statement state-ment regarding women that comes to you in the form of an epigram. Women are instinctively so wicked that they regard with veneration the man whom they cannot can-not corrupt. |