MARION CRAWFORD'S OPINIONS OF WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 146, 14 March 1908, Page 10

MARION CRAWFORD'S OPINIONS OF WOMEN.

- In his now novel VArethusajV Mr:- Marion- . Crawford some mtirosting' -asides ; in. ■ which hflgivbs Ins opinions of wdm6(i m ""a :,: . morordogmatic;way thai is usual with; lniji: ■■. Hero aro. somo 'of thom:. .v.: ; / ; I instnictiv6'*sl(lb of.:lifp,,,:W'omeii aro much if)ore alikd ihah, injeir'ars ji.wh'ereasj' pushed;. or dragged ; through* one average course .of teaching, as most mon arc,- but are . 1 Joft,-tcj-think andj- abivfe all; td gUess;at truth■for thomoselvos, - they aTe^iftueh ; iii6r<S rnilike: v.. jn tlicri- way-of looking at tilings. ThiS' also . 13 the. reasoii why.•miny' gifted mon-and-a-godd many really lcanxid onds would, rathdi 1 . talk tor.wonjen than-to "men ;'for among men ■ ■ thoy heir the samo things cvorlastuigly; but . womenc ahvavs havo-something now- to- say^ ■winch ..asc-flattoring^.pleasant;; -amusing,, or. . irritating—perhaps, as they chooSo. a "Women havo also a'sort-of moclcThnmblo, wholly., appealing .way. of asking- the-.:great-man liow it. is -.poraiblo- that .ho : can/-really- . canKto, tyK. mtu.a" ji.oor,. ignorant^littio wOj ; ' man}' whon' he; ' nHght, bo tiigaged 'in a memoralilo conrersetion with the. othor grcntmsn, who is talking to th& otJier .J)(jpr, lgriorattt' iittls Womah; jnth cyiMj ' too" other.'iiido of the robin. In wo learii that lifo is' full of ' " "Sha 'had .oP fchoao 1 'irirspir.-t----tions of ;'pra<^cul, Ben»swhich; Visit .who arb drivish to .extremities, and which . havbiibcisn; tlio,'. wonder crf meji arnco Jacob's mothtir showed lrim horir to steal blessing. It w quito ccriaiii that it • was a" Golum&os tlw.trick .with the %gj when hb himself wjfe to'biik anoo one on ita point;- Only a woman Muld have thcrtight oP anything so simple;!' '/!' "Whdn sees that'a: man IS'shy with iefjfsh'o'. is,."snrie':that .sooner 'or later ■ he will tnrn at her will; and though she id sometimes mistaken, tlio chances are that - sho is right," ■ '