People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — WOMEN STARING AT WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN STARING AT WOMEN.

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A Man’s Comments on Tills Weakness of the Fair Sex. Two women pass each other on the street of a provincial town; they are not acquainted, yet it is long odds that one of them turns around to look after the other —very short odds against both doing so, says the Nineteenth Century. It is not the gait or the figure or the hair of the stranger that has attracted atenfion; it is the dress, not the person within it. The gentle anarchists who are busy organizing the debrutalization of man will, of course, attribute this little failing to the vanity of the feminine mind by reason of man’s tyranny in excluding women from boards of directors and other intellectual arenas. It may be conceded that psychology and betterment are more recondite fields than millinery, but this would be but a dull world and far uglier than it is if every woman had a soul above chiffons. Odds grenadine and tarlatan! That were a consummation by no means desirable. No, let all nien who have eyes to see withal or hearts to lose set great store by the pains bestowed on pretty dressing, but if one may speak and live the art should be studied with subtler tact than is sometimes seen. It should be better concealed; it is distressing to see a young woman’s eyes, wandering over the dress of her with whom she is talking, for if the mind be engaged in taking note of external detail conversation ceases to be intercourse and becomes the crackling of thorns under the pot.