Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-26 | Page 9 | Have Women Intuition? Section

HAVE INTUITION one writer say ther save iberer shown it in literature 1 literature is the final expression of human thought if women can lay claim to a special faculty of intuition why do they not manifest it an fn their writings intuition it it means any i thing means the faculty that gets down to the germ of actions and char and focuses external traits into a central verity recognizable to the general public now there are more female writers than male NO woman poet has ever written an inevitable line a line that flashes spon out of the unknown and casts an illuminating light upon the abyss woman has added practically nothing to our stock of familiar quotations take down your banuett or your anthology th and you may be surprised to find that from sirs browning to mrs meynell women have never coined a phrase which haa passed into the common currency of speech mrs browning has indeed written fine lines but nothing of hers can be said to have be boroo a household word kor has any woman novelist created any character that la generally lecog 1 as typical george buot has come closest with her alto SI elema and sirs you would appeal only to the educated few if you de ascribed scribed a person ns a alto or a royser but call a man a don quixote a a a falstaff a colonel a buell a parson adams or bob acres call a woman a mrs a becky sharp a bea trice a diana varnon a meg merrillia ca and even the illiterate will mentally classify the individual as you wish him or her to be classified ah but you say in real life women are the true intuitions they size up a man or a woman at a glance they are never mistaken when they trust to their instincts I 1 can only testify to my own experience I 1 have not found that snap judgments of character are imbued with any special verity they form lukca or dislikes quicker than a man does because they are quicker on the trigger of conjecture they can only be one of two things right oc it time proves that they are right as they must be in CO per cent 0 cases the right guess Is remembered and treasured up by uie slower minded man as an extraordinary instance of intuition the wrong guess la forgotten william S walsh in era