Show I Shakespeare the Friend of Woman And what better friend and teacher teach-er can women find than Shakespeare tbe one man that the world has ever produced who knew equally well the heirt of man and woman and who laid the entire range of human emotions under contribution to supply his gift to the world It is eomatimea argued that Shakespeare may have too many of the plain truths that need concealing not revealing To a good man or woman knowledge of the right kind is a protection and a safeguard not Jnsentive to evil For women who are called upon to perform their part in the world how much kinder and wiser it is to provide them with the steel armor of knowledge knowl-edge rather than the flimsy garments of ignorance In time mankind as well as womankind will ba the gainers gain-ers by the higher education of woman But only by such study aa will develop character as well as brains j ig it that the American women will j be able to give the real aid they should I give in furnishing Americas quota to the ideas of the world to the progress of mankind Therefore let them study Shakespeare Other poeta need not be excluded nor yet the great prose writers but let them study the master They will hand down the greatness of his soul to unborn generations gener-ations In nine cases out of ten the wife whose intellectual and emotional nature is evenly balanoedguides and directs her husband quite as much as ho guides her In our social life aa in the body economic it follows inevitably in-evitably mat hpatnfulues fip nrc upon a proper adjustment of the different dif-ferent forces that are perpetually acting act-ing and reacting on each other But as we are not born with all of our faculties fully developed it behooves ua to cultivate and educate those faculties It is the fashion of the day I know to indulge in iconoclasm and even Shakespeare is not exempt from the fasilade of these leveliug I missiles of wouldbe destroyers of timehonored fameJ Heard in The ManJiattanfor June |