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Show AN EDITORIAL BY 1 FLORENCE DAVIES u V,)-! 'S IMU M WH Y TO WOM N Tradition has It tuat man's prover- blal Inhumanity to man lan I a marker to woman s mon- exquisiteiyycruel In-, humanity to woman. But facts don't alwuys bear out this' rusty Old superstition that women In spit..- of their modern championship of euch other as a class ure always out to "get" each other pcrsonall. We- only believe that because the-woman the-woman versus woman in the eternal I triangle either In fact or fiction, are always getting themselves Into print. Llut there Is nothing - specially thrilling thrill-ing about the story of a woman who stands by a woman, and so. like the good deeds In the day's news. It gets ..nly a two-lino notice or Is lost out al- j toge ther, to make room for the more I , sensational story. Perhaps because they are more coin-ihon, coin-ihon, good deeds aren't half as newsy new-sy as bad ones And because most people. Including women, do play fair, !thc story of fair play is never as sen- laatlonal as the story of a swindle or scandal. Put sometimes the story of the square d. il docs rind its way Into the j. lay's news it did a week or two ago ! for Instance, when a girt in an IIH- nois town found that her lover had a wife and a child In Ohio, and that the man was already on parole from a threatened prison term for failure to! support them. "I never dreamed that he was mar-Irled mar-Irled " th-- ,,-lrl explained . 'but when I I found out I communicated with his wife- and helped her to bring him to justice." Still more striking was Oie conduct of Mrs Bosch Of Chicago, who found just before her husband's death that the man she. had met and married In .1... ll.s. ' V,lo f,,rli,n u-na made had divorced the woman he had 1 left ba. k homo In tho stub s I Seeking out the first Mrs. Basch, tho second Mrs Bosch Insisted upon mak- I lng a division of her late husband's estate, feeling that something was du. (the first wife, who had been left at home alone during the dreary years of waiting. And so women do sometimes play falrlv and oven gencrouslv with each other, even through many a story to the contrary gets abroad Hut for every story of a woman who has been unfair to another woman in matters of love or money there are a dozen talcs which mlK-ht be told of W'oinen who, unknown to anyone In the world, have been on the square With the other woman in the case and, that, too. when the 'oth-r wo- I man" has not dreamed of their existence, exist-ence, and When their own hearts might have prompted them to take what didn't belong to them. Women are by no means always cruel to each other. But the times when they are the klnd'-st arc seldom published to in.- world. |