WIVES WHO WANT TO BE RULED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15222, 21 May 1920, Page 4

WIVES WHO WANT TO BE RULED.

CRITICISM BY PUBLIC MEN. NEW' YORK, March 2.--Women m the United States are undergoing tbe novel experience of being . made a target for strong criticism. Their acceptance of servile homage from meriT their extravagance, and their political irresponsibility aro the subject of strong denunciation; To-day they are assailed ferociously from three sides. M. Leo x Tolstoy, grandson of the Russian sage, tells them that their attitude toward life generally provokes the spirit Which m Europe led to war; Senor Vicente . Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, after three months' • residence here, informs them that they- have madeslaves of their' husbands. And Mr A. Mitchell Palmer,' the Attorney-General, has imperilled his prospects as Presidential candidate by bluntly lecturing a fashionable audience of New York women on their prodigality id clothes. Senor Ibanex, after visiting the girls' collego at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, went yesterday to Philadelphia and to men of the University Club, he delivered himself of the following observations'— "Every American man is a coward before a woman, and his status m regard to her is identical * with that of the Southern negro generally • before the advent of Abraham Lincoln (who abolished slavery). The conditions -under which American men live and labor are almost the same as those of the men who m prehistoric days were warriors and hunters, going out to chase boars and other animals for food while the women stayed at home ; minding the kitchen and* the children. The- only difference now arc that tho American man chases dollars instead of wild animals and his wife does not mind they household, but goes to a matinee or out shopping instead. If ■ the American

man .is poor, he comes home at night after a hard day dollar-chasing and has to be housekeeper as well. Ho cooks the food and aftor dinner he washes the dishes. As a Spaniard, let me tell you Amoricen mo,n something. What your country needs is' a second emancipator. Moreover, your women are tired of excessive adulation. : I have dined with them many times m Paris. They would give dinners for me and .1 would be tho only man present. At dessert I would say to the women, .'There's' no one to hear us. Tell me "frankly, , do you like all this bowing- and scraping of '-the American man, all this exaggerated respect fc Aten't you sick of it?-' Whole-heartedly they Would answer :i 'Si, senor. We are disgusted with it. We should like to be dominated for a change."' '■"•-, Senor H>anez ended his daring tirade by advising American men "to treat, women a little roughly onco m a while." LOVE OF FINE FEATHERS. Mr Mitchell Palmer's temerity' was even greater than that of the chivalrous Spanish novelist. Scanning the faohionable audience assembled to hear his views on