Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — The Superior Sex. [ARTICLE]

The Superior Sex.

There is a lot of vainglorious expression on the part of the men about their being the superior sex. We hear too much of man’s endurance, of his inteUect, of his executive ability and all that sort of thing. Take a man and make him wear a spotted veil and he will be nearly blind within a year. A woman wears one and retains her eyesight. Pinch a man into corsets and within a week he will have heart trouble, chronic pleurisy, acute indigestion, appendicitis and a funeral. Pile a few pounds o? false hair on a man s head and he will sucoumb to brain fever within a month. Tie a man’s ankles ln a hQppln skitL „ and he will have rheumatism, followed by paralysis of the legs from lack of exercise. Pinch a man’s feet in tight shoes and make him toddle about on high heels and he will die of charleyhorse. Man loses on the score of endurance alone. Intellect and executive ability are argued by the capacity to combat these tortures and trials. Man is undoubtedly the inferior sex and "should retire to the last row of seats and be quiet.