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Show THE FRIVOLOUS SOCIETY WOMAN. It would have been remarkable if the fulmination of Cardinal Gibbons against the women whom he described as "the worst enemies of her eex" had not evoked a response. It would be hard to condense into fewer words a more sweeping condemnation condem-nation than that drawn up by His Em-i nence of the neglect of household duties, du-ties, of the .surrender of all that is gentle, tender and amiable in womanhood, woman-hood, of the loss of her innate graces and the substitution therefor of the opposite qualities among "the society leaders in the higher walks of life." His pictures of the woman who is always "gadding about," who is "never at peace unless she is in perpetual mo tion, never at ease unless she is in a state of morbid excitement, never at home unless she is abroad, chafing and fretting under the responsibilities respon-sibilities of domestic life, exulting in imagination in some social triumph or revelling in some scene of gayety and dissipation," is not a pleasant one to contemplate. Y'et the question is not whether it is pleasant, -but whether it it? true. If any newspaper had used the same language it would probably be denoounced as "sensational," but there is the sensationalism of truth as well as of falsehood, and the truth is I its own vindication regardless of the form in which it appears. A |