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Show ICPARTAN QUALITIES OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN. Nations differ lu nothing so much V3 in tholr women, sttd Dr. Emll Reich In The Grand Magazlnb v London). The French, English, or American woman Is easily distinguishable Tho American Amer-ican woman Is totally different from the English woman. So Is tho French woman, tho tho difference In this cass Is not so Intense, so Is tho German woman; wo-man; so Is tho woman of Italy. The American woman, he thinks, whllo dlf-ferine dlf-ferine from all her European sisters Iot today, boars a marked resemblance tT tho woman of ancient Sparta. Tho Spartans resembled tho present-day Americans; tho Athenians were llko tho English. Going on to point out I'l what respect tho American woman In llko tho Spartan woman, ho pro tests that ho has not ".tho slluhtest Intention In-tention of being dlsagrecablo" when he says of tho American maid, wife or mother,, "I do not blame, I do not praise; jl only say, and I say emphatically, emphat-ically, that tho American woman Is not womanly; she Is not n woman." Tho wholo of tho United States, be Hays, Is under petticoat government, and man Is practically non-oxlstent. Ho says as quoted In tho Literary Digest Di-gest : "An -American womnn commands man. Man does not count there. Tho list man that camo to America was Christopher Columbus. Today man has no existence, ho does not talk in tho drawing-room, drawing-room, but Is a dummy. The woman wo-man lives ono life, tho man nnothcr, and they nro totally distinct from each other. She lives so that sho can have a good tlmo; sho lives for sensations. I do not blamo her, I do not condemn her. Her interest lies not In man. Sho wnnts to bo alone, and she can not bo nlono without dabbling today with H chemistry, tomorrow with physiology, H and tho day after with Buddhism, pass- H ing on to SwedenborgianlBm, to wlre- H less telegrnphy, and to tho works of H Marie Corclli. Having taken In doses H of science, pf philosophy, of mathe- mattes, she then thinks she Is up to H dato; sho feels she has developed into H something new; it Is tho search for n H now shiver, something out of tho or-H or-H dinary, a deadly dcslro to bo very H now. Aspaslas, Gretchens, and Opho- Has nro obsolete, In her opinion. Sho H li as now ns a man born today is new; H sho is made up of restlessness nnd H fidgetiness long before sho Is twonty-H twonty-H five. But sho is very beautiful; she H has tho best complexion In tho world better than that of any European wo-H wo-H man. Sho is also well built and hand-H hand-H somo. You see fine spcclmcnts of tho H American woman in Kentucky and H Massachusetts. But sho Is a typo qulto distinct from tho English typo; sho H dpes not try to havo dignity or roilno-H roilno-H ment; sho wants to affect man by what H sho says, and not by what sho does not H say. Sho has no passion, no sentl-H sentl-H ment; all this is alien to her. Sho Is H a mass of nervous energy. To her, H homo nnd husband nro nothing, nnd H her child her own creation but very H little. Tho two types of woman, tho H American nnd the English, arc, in fact, totally different." Ho thinks it omens ill to tho future of tho United Stntes that woman in H this country is really a Spartan in H character and disposition, and ho says H the American Imperialism and "big-H "big-H stickism" arc largely tho result of this H ' type of femininity. Thus: H "A fow miles distant from the Athens H of old what would be but n short rail- H way Journey In these days lay Spar- H ta. The Spartans wcro Imperialists, H and they wanted to conquer tho wholo H of Greece. Tho Spartan woman, as 1 H havo remarked, was like tho American H woman of today. Sho never dreamt of H lovers; her idea was nothing less than H conquering man; she nover thought of H him as more than a fcl- H law athlete. A boy, when ho was seven years old, was taken tak-en away from his mother; and when married, at twenty, ho was frequently not allowed to see his bride for two years. If ho did see her It was by stealth. These women wrestled with tho men in a state of nudity. Thero was no womanhood In, them, no moro than In so many sticks. The Athenians said that they woro very fine, but thero was nothing fcmlnlno about them. They were far richer, too, than tho men, for tho men went to tho wars an) died, nnd tho women thus became rich. Aristotle said that tho Spartan woman wo-man was sure to ruin Sparta very quickly. And so sho did, for wo Ilnd Sparta trying to rule Greece in tho fourth century B. C; In tho third century cen-tury sho was sinking; In tho secon 1 century she had ceased to exist! "Modem British men and women, what aro they? That is what I want to bring out. A nation can nover sur-vivo sur-vivo with women of tho Spartan typo which, I havo told you, is tho American of todny. Tho Romans were the same, and they ruined tholr empire. They had ono idea, an nll-absorblng idea, which killed all ideas of religion, of art, of everything tho Idea of empire. They spent their whole lives in that ono absorbing pursuit domination; in such a country woman has no place." Tho tendencies of great empires Is to depreciate woman, ho asserts, and this depreciation, in turn, tends to national na-tional ruin. Womnn, to bo perfect, hiust combine Athenian nnd Spartnn characteristics. In his own words: "In largo empires thero is a terrible tendency to depreciate women, nnd whenever such is tho case that empire must sooner or later come to grief. England had her Shakespeare when sho had no empire. Why has England no Shakespeare now? Any ono who could write ono drama today such as Shakespeare wrote would make a million mil-lion of money, nnd yet none can do it. Tho British Empire Is a great empire, but it has no great men nnd women. With such ndvnntages, why should not tho raco'comblno tho good wo havo seen in the Athenian nnd In tho Spartnn; Spar-tnn; in fnct, mako its women moro perfect? They would then be nble to show tho world something that has nover been seen; not quite Athens, perhaps, but certainly not Sparta.much less America." |