Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1916 — Experience Proves It. [ARTICLE]

Experience Proves It.

We see in one of these New York papers that women 0 have a “Hereditary Fear of Man,” that this fear has come prowling down the ages from the time when woman was not safe from the predatory male, and so on. Yes, we can prove it. Some twentyodd years ago or more we came face to face with <sur teacher over a small difference of opinion concerning a matter of deportment. We looked her right in the eye as lion tamers do now in moving, pictures, and we talked up as United States senators have always done. We remember very clearly the haste with which she grabbed into her desk for her ruler. That hereditary fear was working. Over what followed we draw a veil —no doubt she did it In self-defense and the Interests* of culture. We are still sorry we* scared her. so badly and it is rather nice to know that It was really her fear of us that made us such a modeli pupil for the next week or two. Yous see they didn’t have all the advantages of sociology back in 188(Vodd, but w» can all live and learn and read the papers.—Collier’s.