MODERN MEN AND WOMEN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13568, 8 November 1912, Page 6

MODERN MEN AND WOMEN.

Considerable discussion, and amusement lias been aroused in New York by the publication of an interview, with Dr. William Waugh, on© of the foremost neurologists in the country, the chief physician of Jefferson Hospital, Chicago, in which he declared women nowadays still adore "The Cave Man," who, as it were, knocks his wife o,ver the head with a hatchet and drags her off to his cave.

Modern men and women, continued the learned doctor, are becoming more and more coated with the varnish of civilisation, but underneath it they are identical with tho cave man and woman —unchanged at heart.

"The simple maxims that ruled the cave-dwellers govern humanity to-day," Dr. "Waugh asserts. "Every woman sits and waits for tho coming of her lord. She is ready to follow when he beckons. Ho is masterful. He woos not, beseeches not, implores not, serves not; he takes 'his own when he finds it. Ho commands, knowing that he will be obeyed,.and that is the sign for which she waits. There is never man or brute so brutal but woman clings to him, and the bigger the brute tho more this instinct shows itself among women,! who flock to decorate a murderer's coll with evidences of their appreciation. It is not silliness and maudlin, but primitive instinct showing through tho veneer."

"On the other hand," says Dr Waugh "should the man pusillanimously weep and surrender the headship, the wife feels nothing for him but contempt and repulsion, and he becomes a slave."

Dr. Waugh's opinion is viewed by women as ridiculous, and indignant protest, chiefly from advocates of women's ■suffrage, is being heard in all sides.