UNSENTIMENTAL WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 29 April 1914, Page 2

UNSENTIMENTAL WOMEN

'■-. I|?'r!io*ilnddi^|paliyl^li?ii'.; ,::i n:; i l<es , »n ■ wo- ; of IV '■ JiiiaJes^b'jS^mii'iikin'd', , ;. of ! V\vho!iu elnrling VwoHlj'jliiiiUi'.yF'opTU.s Hiiivo: iiinple knowlittloniaiHiisli in hi , !' ■ "aspei-l^Jc'says;tlm; writer, though very. .i'!i|..vi'r<j'ui ii' : . plain , ' woman. JV-rimps it '■isZ-hoi-jispoi-.tsmanliUo garband her "hail- . 'fclipVrwoll-iiHit":.. manner, rather than of. fnco tlmt makes men shy ■ <if.j;hrr:;y..'.;.Sho-is'a woH-deiincd niodiirn type,"-.'declares a frietid/' "pariiwilarlj' ' di.sc(ji!ce!tiiii» to mankind, in reality thesis, K(!Cinin;il.y- misunlitncntal women ■who hido their feelings so aptly, are, wells of sympathy and tendcrntssii when . oticij tho. right note is. struck, but b«cimse they nnitiiPi- gnsh nor demuud in !m homo like the proverbiil. burden ol tho'pilgrim, nian.y :i man j>a >kps them by it little ehyly, and. in fear lost any dpi.'htration Irarn. him may be. trealeii with ridicule. 'They are generally most j lovabio women to women", and they rc-i-eivu tho secrets and iho trouble's of. their more obvious sisters, and let the; stork's of success or shame ink righfc: down into their kind hearts, never to' bo recounted, htit to briny forth at' every memory a fund of pity for iiia suf- ; Jercr. They arc always the confidant' of tiio foolish and llioir practical iikl oft times saves tho wreck of two lives. They live in a sea of emotion, and jet it passes them by, somehow, and too often the, grey hairs coino without bringing to them ibo joys of wife mjiiotiif'rhiiod, and they sin!; quietly into old age, their only solace the love of innumerable lueues and nephews, real and adopted." There ought to bo some school for men, where.the art of discovering the . false from the true might be inculcated, I and then the unsentimental woman would come into her own. Curiously enough she has : never" lacked the adora- ! tioii of poets,. Monro's "Ministering Angel" most have been a sound uii'seiitimtiiital sort of girl, and our own Gordon evidently pictured lier wlwn lie penned tho lines— As a strong love shielding a weary lover, j I wonhl luive her shield men with siiiniug breast, —The Swimmer, I Swinburne seems also to have rather I leaned towards the typ<>, and certainly I Longfellow had her in miud as tins model of Evangelino. But in «al life she is apt to friffhlon oft , tlto stiitor. wlto lives, in all-probability, to greatly regret his mistake when his fjoldeiicurlcd and sighing angel lias developed it teiiiptii- and a taste, of letting him do nwi-e than his share of bringing up the iamilv.