I have enjoyed the hundreds of columns aimed at me by excited women through the press.

They have all asked the same question: Why do you not write of the good things in women instead of always the bad?
I have never given them an answer.

But I answer you now--here.

I have not picked upon the weaknesses of women because I despise them.

Those weaknesses--the destroying frailties of womankind--I have driven over rough-shod through the pages of my books because I have always believed that Woman was the one thing which God came nearest to creating _perfect_.