Show WHY AMERICANS ARE KIND TO WOMENFOLK tills this american respect for womanhood as tile the orator calls it this american habit of putting woman on a pedestal as the cooler heads calls it argues neither girtue nor demerit in the american simeon iky ky asserts in the atlantic monthly the tradition has a sound social economic tests hasis and Is due I 1 assume to pioneer conditions it Is a commonplace among the statisticians that in the older count countries rles of 0 11 europe there are more women than men inen and in new countries the united states austrilla australia there are more moio moi o nien men than women we have today probably more males thin than females england has more females titan than males and the war Is not entirely responsible there was a large female surplus in great britain and germany before the war and a large female deficit in this country for CO CA years it has been true with will us that tor for every women ihre have ben been nearly early men american respect for womankind would thus appear to be grounded lit in the scarcity alue ginitie of women in this country for tills this reason anion among otil ers the american man needs com compari para lively little encouragement from his florist and his telegraph company in order to be kind to his womenfolk this kindness Is inbred in him the infection is in the air it seizes upon the immigrant front from central europe lit at quarantine and impels the peasant woman to step slop into lier her higher status as a matter of course and her to concede it as a matter neatter of course |