WHAT MEN THINK OF WOMEN

Temuka Leader, Issue 2154, 24 January 1891, Page 3

WHAT MEN THINK OF WOMEN

(Daily News.)

An American gentleman has beei collecting opinions from his country men on the important subject o women. He asked Mr James G Blaine what he thought of them whereupon the Secretary smiled ant asked to what sort of women his interlocutor referred. The smile inr mediately vanished when bis questions] remarked that he was asking aboul the women who mount the stump tc make a political speech, “ I hatethal sort of woman,” said Mr (Secretary Blaine, and he evidently meant it. But as to women in general, when he had recovered from the disturbing idea of the stump oratress, he declared that a perfect woman is the nobleat thing on earth, and that she is nearest perfection when most womanly. The next person interviewed on the subject I was an individual described as a political war horse, Mr Murat Halstead. He declared that five generations of women, from his grand-mother to his grand-daughter, had loved him. In return, he asserts his belief that men are inferior to women in everything save physical strength. Mr Ohauncey M. Depew think* there is no such beautiful work of God under the arch of His sky as an American girl, .He said a kindly word for the “ superfluous women ” whom the irreverent call old maids. Bussell Sage, on being questioned, at once rushed into the practical side ot the matter. Did he understand the querist to ash what he thought women were good for ? Some of them made good housekeepers, be thought, but most of them neglected their opportunities and bad missions or spheres. Asked if the position of women had not greatly improved since bis boyhood, he remarked that they had now better chances to show off. Banker Henry Clews objects to Wall street operators of the female sex. As speculators, he says, women have been an utter failure. Only in the matrimonial line can women become successful speculators, being too impulsive and impressionable to succeed in matters of finance. These are hard words ; but an antidote is given in the outspoken admiration expressed by Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, who said, among other things, that it is because women are so much better than men that their faults are considered greater. Mr Henry M, Stanley sent a written reply to to the question. He had never in the whole course of his life met woman, from the flat-nosed female .of the tropics to the snow-white divinity of New York, who had not a touch of romance; a romance that cheers the cheerless, softens the insensible; and renovates the withered. But Mr Robert Louis Stevenson is still worse. He writes that he never had much toleration for women.