From a Bench in Our Square

Yes; I know, I assented. There was at that time a Besides in the Little Red Doctor’s sorrowful heart which bulked too large to admit of any rivalry. Nevertheless, I added, you needn’t be so scornful about the simian type in woman. It’s a concentrated peril to mankind. I’ve seen trouble caused in this world by kitten faces, by pure, classic faces, by ox-eyed-Juno faces, by vivid blond faces, by dreamy, poetic faces, by passionate Southern faces, but for real power of catastrophe, for earthquake and eclipse, for red ruin and the breaking up of laws, commend me to the humanized, feminized monkey face.