Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-07-12 | Page 6 | A Ladylike Slam at Mere Man

A LADYLIKE MEREAN A writer in a ladys paper having tired one may presume of abusing her own sex has had a tiny knock at man quite you understand a tiny knock she does not say that he is deceitful or extravagant or vain or cruel or given to taking drugs or to cheating at bridge or any of the other things that everybody hastens to admit aro the monopoly of women man nevertheless th la not perfect he refuses to sing and he refuses to dance singing and dancing says she were once indispensable to education but now no gentlemen can rouse himself to master either t the answer to this is that no gentleman ever did rouse himself to master these accomplishments unless as Is very rare he had a marked talent for them on the contrary he was roused certain afternoons in the week were set aside for singing certain evenings for dancing and the poor wretch was compelled to make a fool of himself because his parents had paid the extra fee there is no more ludicrous sight in the world than a roomful of school boys nine tenths of them without the slightest artistic ability of any sort whatever struggling under pain of punishment to ang or dance nowadays nobody dreams of asking a man to sing who cant sing but women still persist in believing that every man could dance beautifully or at the least passably if ho so lazy tho men who can dance dance the men who dont dance sant and never could but ahaus the good of asking mothers to havo respect for their daughters boea chicot in the london sketch