Show WHICH IS THE STRONGER I j A Womans AVay of lutting the Question Wealc Woman Indeed Annie R Noxon in St Louis Republican Once more the most wirenerved lim hertoed ironhinged man performing in the arena of private life is asked to come to the mourners bench and contrast his I accoutrements with those of his weak feeble and nonerved sister human and to ask himself whether or notking of beasts as he ishe thinks he could frolic around with all his muscles tendons sinews of war and solid flesh if lie were I caparisoned from neck to heel as woman is He may claim six feet in his stockings i stock-ings or as many as a centiped if lie pleases but he will tell you that he cant leapfrog worth a baubee unless he lowers low-ers a notch in Ms suspenders He maybe may-be able to wrestle with truth and throw it like a blacksmith but he first demands a ring fair play and no tight waistbands I His cranium wouldnt be worth an empty cocoanut for mathematics if a dozen long crooked hairpins were jabbing jab-bing his thinking apparatus He will not be hit below the belt and he takes i I off the belt when the mark has been sufficiently suf-ficiently made in that region In fact man is a pretty good fortyhorse power engine without harness all his trammels gone and a space to move in left him But haul him in reef him tackle cleat and shackle him as women are stick wires in his brains gird his lunors liver heart spleen and stomach with no more chance for a good long yardwide breath than a man would have in his iron coffin then turn him loose Pin his arms to his sides in tight grosgrain gros-grain silk sleeves choke his Adams apple in a No 12 collar clenched with a diamond dia-mond button Pinch him in most where he lives and when his knees tremble and the cold sweat runs off his ample I brow add one more indignitynay fifty others in the shape of tight stiff undergarments un-dergarments bustles lopsided from their own heftiness plait after plait of heavy woolen bouffant fatness of cashmere all I m a weak spot just where nature meant her spines to give way and curve like a rams horn if pressed too much Then i lasso what there is left of him in jetted Jersey as heavy as a coat of armor or I cuirasse of Charlemagne weighted down I with long spikes balls tassels and chunks of jet Put on him elbow kid gloves so tight as to give his thumb a deathly cholerain antum grip in two seconds put on his I i head a bonnet pickled with burrs and sticky with beads tie this under his left ear in a knot which threatens strangulation strangula-tion then ask him to maneuver jump dance prance fight wrestle or play copenhagen enhagen leapfrog or any of his gym1 i lastics and watch this giant fall down i right away in a fit and grow black in the face Poor weak woman indeed |