THE MORE CONSTANT SEX.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 198, 25 September 1909, Page 4

THE MORE CONSTANT SEX.

(By a Pretty Girl.) I Women, as a rule, me under tlic impassion that they are more constant than men. This is only natural, but as a matter of fact men are as a. sex pist as faithful and constant as women. All reasoning to the contrary will, if examined, he found to he unsound and illogical. Most women will resent a little the assurance of Unit which they arc rightly supposed to desire most—fidelity and constancy on the part cf lover or husband equal to their own. RESENTS BEING CALLED FAITHFUL And for this reason, most women, even the sanest and most cheerful, take a certain sentimental enjoyment in the falsely acquired reputation they have tamed as the much abused and much deceived sex. So. too. will the average man resent the statement that, after all, he is "Of. nearly so unfaithful and inconstant as hv is commonly supposed to be, but that lie is really quite as much to be com- , mended fo r these virtues as his wife, his sisters, or his mother.

The average man will repudiate any attempt to remove the great injustice under which he has so long lived and loved, jinx-jlttcnipt to reinstate him u the position to which he belongs as th» equal of woman in faithfulness and constancy.

The average man takes an arrogant pride in the equally false reputation he has earned for himself as the gay deceiver of the too loving and confidini: woman. He prides himself upon '/■'■• ability to dove two or more women at the same time, and he will ingeniously explain the alleged phenomenon as argaing a larger mental capacity on his part. NOT BORNE .OUT BY FACTS. But the facts and experience of life do not bear out this assumption that men are necessarily inconstant. On the contrary, the facts and experience of life, as they impress the more thoughtful, whether men or women, all go to prove that the greater faithlessness of the male in those tender and delicate relations is only another of those ancient myths handed down to us from time immemorial. Just as soon as woman learns to base her conceptions of men. not upon "ininition" so called, not upon the super--ntions taught her by other womcit, 'nit upon the dictates of her own sound irumon sense, then, and only then, will here be an end of what is termed the war of the sexes."