Show ui MAX ORELL ON HER HE ROYAL HIGHNESS WOMAN 1 uv n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n 1 n Max Oneil the tho French Trench writer and lecturer who has hils entertained us rill all filth his observations upon John Hull ind tad brother r Jonathan approaches with becoming diffidence In his latest book the problem m which has liaa never been ch gira fn III man Inan to solve confesses that I like his fellow men he knows little stain women because nothing Is more moro different from n woman than another tr and nothing Is I s more different imam Imm roni a woman than that very ver woman Once having written an nn antiel anti tie el e on The Time Woman I r Hate he I me was rewarded d with an nn avalanche of oC Indig ent nant letters telling him no such woman U i lie he l described ever loved lived At another n tics Ule he says I 1 was a announced to give a lecture an i a to tho the students of oC n a largo large ladles college In North Carolina A tc Couple We le of hours before the lecture three loung mole at ladles Indies from the college collego called on w ilIe atthe at the hotel where I I w was al a slay staying FI I met i t them in the parlor Three charm ing bright most tins arts they were After looking at nt each other for tor some orne time line BO so nj ns to suggest BUgge t that wat me the other should speak ono one at tit at last nn made up her mind to be to the i of DC tho little deputation Wo Woi i have changed the subject of oC your our lee ter tare ture tonight Our lecture course courso Is In diluted for tor the instruction Induction and the gen Improvement of the students and as e thought we should like kc to hear henr you OU talk o 0 us on a n subject which you know something about I 1 must say ay that I at the ly small but l I nas nil lighted nt the fr of ot those thoe young young o nt American girls Siris and nt at once acceded to heir re Ii What aim n do scion women In nii s a its be 11 one w would uld think not to totra tra rashly by ft II wan man Mr 0 s s shows temerity tem to say ray thin Ir e t for tor It Is not wholly comply to the other sex with respect to 10 th tb inferences to be drawn n from tram It ItI ItI I believe that what sexes admire Gott tIo V In the other ore the he qualities M they lo do not generally generall possess h s If I ou read re d the confession b r q f women n ou will HI Invariably tn rr rn that the qualities they the most M aln flu In men are arc generosity broad brond mina ss magnanimity absence ablen e of If PI pro e C and ft R Ml i lofty lotty sense eale of ot Justice i tt et r I r it n and of Now tk Ills I me 11 i ern m n may mn 1 Possess 8 these quail bit Jt no one I 1 think will l th v say lIa that r arc eminently feminine A if y virtues AM Amy I 1 I p may alto abo be added o ll that l t what ire t hale tB most o t In the other lire are the he 1 f which h they themselves a It fl Out Omit of If twenty tIent r f fr rn which hl h I have this r ar r rr IT Un under m my eyes ees and In which Is I e l t t rV M nn it rys ho o question What defect It J a to 3 mot most In ln man eighteen fn n II ha a f answered Manner rr Jn Id I II i ial i t what you rou would expect nt t you o think so poT Of curse II Ia o a Dr women of whom It might be c f to Kner pr preposterous po the th ro reo r h K t rote 1111 sound jund that they are not tr r i ladies but hut also alo perfect These are glorious women Lr D 0 nt ift I know what hat I J nm Bm layu Jj its 1 g M he hen n you OU s U as y of ot a woman that ly Jl t Is II a perfect lady th the remark chief refers to her m manners n r the way the she Irettes Rhea ts and behaves hAes n v In society etc ben you tou OU say M of oC a m man n th that l h he l is Ie a ft i perfect V It means mean lh that t he tie Is le M It c considerate feelings generous even cv en n a man an who could tt r M t oo do 0 am thin m n It if h 11 t t tE A E ter about her husband puts It t In Ule ILe Ire fire and never lIeVer mentions the fact tact to v u him behaves like a gentleman A man who receives s an nn letter I about his wife and shows It to her Is a cur In a n pretty prett play pin tho the name of ot which me just at present a woman has compromised herself with witha a n man A letter INter from tram that moan man Is do lie to her before her husband The latter knows who ho the letter Is from tram Ills His wife hands hund It to 10 him My 11 dear this letter f Is la s addressed to you roe OU I have hae no right to a open op n It says the husband Dont you you OU wont want to to lo rend read rendIt rend rendit It yourself Tho The w wife Ife answers that she he does docs not Very Ver well he says ays then there Is only one thing to do doAnd doAnd And before her ho he throws It Into lIto the Ore fire All the tho women In tho the applaud 80 So they should but h many of oC them would behave In time the same manner It If such n letter from a n woman came camo to their husbands Expressly I excepting the tho now new woman a typo type which he lie thoroughly dislikes and which Is altogether too frequent In the A A L I United States Stales he says sas Mr Oneil who Vho has hils been all nil over tho the world regards tho the American woman as IlS tho the modern tO na nn Ideal of oC the tho sex lie He writes I have hn 0 been six times all ail over ocr tho the United States I have spent about three years of ot my m life lito In America traveling tm from New York to San BRn front from British Columbia to Louisiana If IC there then Is an nn Impression that becomes n a deeper and nn deeper conviction every eVely time lino that I I return to that country It Il Is that t the tho most Interesting woman In III the tho world is II tho the American woman I have never seen In America an absolutely helplessly plain woman She Is li always In time tho possession of oC a redeeming some something thing which wives saves her She may bo ho beever boever hoever ever so 80 homely homel as the tho Americans say the oho he looks Intelligent a n creature that has hns been allowed to think for tor herself that lint has never been sat Slit upon Allowed from rom the age almost every liberty accustomed ed to 10 take tilt flee others other she sho Is free tree easy perfectly nn tural with tho the consciousness of ot her In Influence Influence fluence her power able by b her ii elli pence fence and education to enjoy nil all tho the Intellectual pleasures of life lite and by I y her keen Icen powers lowers of or observation and her hor native adaptability a to tit lit herself for tor all nil the tho conditions of ot life lite nn an exquisite site mixture of oC a n coquette without af nt affectation and a bluestocking blue without spectacles I or priggishness the tho only wo we woman 0 man mail beautiful and learned she sho may be with whom a 1 man mall feels te l perfectly at nt his easen sort Bort of oC hm I IVILL OUR RP POPULATION P DECREASE I LJ n n n n n i regard oUt our Vo Wo are ar so accustomed to population as all steadily and onI swiftly In Increasing Increasing creasing that It Is with something of ofa ofa ofa a shock that we learn of at tho lie constant constantly ly I growing reduction In tho the birthrate of tho the country during recent years This Is masked nt et t present by hy a l large Immigration but It Is I quite possible that at nt sonic some time In III the future It t may mn cause calise as ns widespread alarm here as liS the tha similar line has laH beery been causing In 10 InFranco Franco France l Medical News July 20 In a n leading lead IllS editorial on the time Hub sub A century ago ngo the sterility of ot Amen Ameri American can women was but 2 per Iler cent the tho lowest of ot any on population In the tho civil civilized cIvilIzed zed world and the average number of oC children to a Q was six At Al present the national sterility Is I said suld to hay have risen to the tho th alarming figure of oC 20 per cent and the tile average number n of ot I but two children to the tho marriage Is This certainly represents a n state of oC af at affairs affairs fairs which It if true tru deserves attention und and an all ull the time more so since nil all the civilized countries are arc now no waking wilkin up to time the realization that factors rue are at nt work for tor the Ule reduction of oC population In our advancing civilization that hint threaten to o far more inure than neutralize the tho gain In III numbers that might be 1 0 an from sanitary Improvements and reduced ml mortality lint Hut aside actual numerical do de decrease crease o of ot native Inhabitants a n misfortune mis misfortune fortune that already a starcH Trance Franco In inthe tho the face tuce and It perhaps s not far distant for tor the time United certain ethical considerations arc called colled to our atten ottell lion 1100 liy by 11 the In this connection The Th editor of I so BO little sen semi sensational as nI Harpers Magazine spoke some sonic words of warring warning on oh the time subject In to the July Jul number numbe Discussing mod modern modern modern ern love and yore love stories ho he speaks of ot tint that revolution through which woman tins hUll conic como to live 1110 for tor herself for her Individual development rather than for tot forthe tho the race amid IIII adds If JC we take a n narrow and aristocratic section of ot humanity the result seems disastrous It has been ben estimated esth ranted that In J n fifteen consecutive Ive blocks on upper Fifth avenue there are I but hut fifteen children And taking a amore amore amore more general view we wo can cnn not but con consider consider consider sider the time denial of oC motherhood to so many women whether It be voluntary or Involuntary the saddest tragedy of our modern life The fhe Medical News comment on this Is as 1111 follows This Is of ot course COllue a 11 pregnant aspect of n a great grent social question As s phi phy physicians ph wo we are arc much more concerned with It than might at nt first t sight ap op appear apPear pear Undoubtedly there liters Is la a II tonden tendency cy ey e In III the physician to ad advise nt adVise vise too loo readily against maternity and Its It attendant cares It Is la a question whether the tho childless woman nn or o r the time mother nr 1 r wrapped up In every ever phase of ot the health of oC a single child It lb really In the end less free tree from tram care caro than her lice sisters with children and their concomitant duties Occupation of ot mind and a n definite purpose In life lite are often otten the best remedies that thal can cnn be prescribed for tor the nervous woman who whose o e time hangs so JO heavily on her hands that morbid morbid Introspection and magnification of ot symptoms become the tho burden burdt n of ot existence While at present the tho weight of ot medical Influence Is ex ox AA AAA toward the limitation of oC families It would seem Hem to be safer physical and morally immorally moraU to throw It rather on tho the theother other of ot the scale scalo so that larger larer families than lhnn are at present the time rule would become tho the mode Prophecies are aro always dangerous things for the prophet at lenstet least yet at times clines they th teach the lesson lenon of oC present tendencies better than any nn mere mero review Mt Mr U 11 1 u ii Well ells in a 1 series of oC articles of ot called Anticipations that have ha appeared ared In recent numbers of the tho English Fortnightly Review and The Thu North American lets his pro prophetic attempt to foreshadow sonic pome of the results that may ma flow Ilow from Crom sterile marriages Will WIlI a generation he asks for tOI whom marriage will no longer er he be h associated with the birth and ami rearing of or children or with the time Immedi Immediate ate co and sympathy of ot husband hus bus bum band and wife In common proceedings retain Its It present feeling for tor the tho ex ox extreme extreme tame sanctity of ot the permanent mar marriage bond hund This seems a n far tar cry cr from the present laissez alter conditions It may even appear too wanting In con colt confidence for the future of ot the race to toI toI I I serious ethical ethl al Ion from rom what Is I apparently only ani in n little pettish withdrawal f oln family family I cares careR in this generation Mr Wells Welts prophecy becomes helomes more Interesting roam this standpoint as ns It proceeds He lie foresees foresee even the loss of oC the present respect for tor woman nd her tier If It she should continue to shirk her plain duties to the race lice These startlingly plain words from Crom non ob observers are ore stronger than tiny any nn protestations that were made nt nl the th meeting of ot tho the American Medical association though thou h there thero time the subject was urns treated with hands The consensus us of ot opinion n to n among candid minded students of at the question qU shows how serious and how hof urgent ur ent are the dangers l pointed out This Is not u II question to be discussed sensationally mid and then thell allowed to drop because there thero Is no complete completo practical solution of oC the problems It ll Involves near at nt hand Factors for tor the tho simpli simplification simplification of oC tho the problem we have at nt com command e m mand and they the must be employed The Time recognition of oC the dangers almond ahead Is of at Itself a t step In the tho right direction Medical Influence can cnn accomplish some of ot the beneficent purposes of avoiding the serious evils and the tho propaganda of views In the matter of or the he limitation of oC families will help to toward ward lend off ote threatened dangers The Literary Digest |