Show HES S SANE SAXE WOMAN Despite espite De D Intellectual Development nent as Much Afraid of a Mouse louse as Ever Chicago Inter Ocean Nobody ol any aay n i these days day d ays will be willing to risk his repute t tion ti on by denying that woman has haa made w the century and is ia still making wondrous ondrous w wo advancement along al g many lines Of o f Intellectual development We w behold evidences of ot her ber progress I everywhere e She carries ca s off oft first tint I I in i n the te great universities She occupies I I conspicuous e ulI places in the learned pro I fn fe f essI Beginning as a writer of silly BIlly novels nov n ovi for the ibe entertainment of ot very young oung yo y people she has become a writer of ci at works that challenge the best beat pro S ns of the lite masculine mind Where there then WM was only enly one Elizabeth I a le years ago a one Mme de a l years 1 I ago a go one George Georgre o Eliot et fifty Tf years ago I there here t are hundreds nay thousands agor of ot 01 r women w now who can CaD hold bold own owr I against a max man in counsel op ai literature l And yet aud yet astonishing as it may ma r seem eem s paradoxical as all it may seem m maC the C new woman with all aU of her Intellectual 1 H Ity i ty Ind of thought force toree of ot 0 f character c is the same woman still stUl hi In ii t ft I many cha chaning Dg respects She Is just as u nuh afraid of t a mouse noue e as a s she was In the darkest period of the th C eC middle ages a e Even Eves when she II E he attends nb thI a I literary l night nl ht at nt the Business Womans S club lub c as she did on Friday evening last Jut and a nd a mouse DOWie scratches behind the wm c tins while her mind is supposed to in be b C wrapped wr in a lecture on great eat est t e el poet she pulls pull her laer t skirt about her ber be r I I I and nd jumps on a chair as her Iter maternal matl beI 1 I ancestors did hundreds of ot years ear before e business bu clubs cluba were invented Would we that is would men have It I t I otherwise Well w we should say ay not |