| Show A LESSON FROM HISTORY A magazine writer quoted In the New York Mall Mail argues from rm history hl tor for the proposition that nations differ most widely In 11 tho the diameter character of or their and that their ultimate fate fato depends chiefly chien on what the women make It him Tho teaching of or history he hea says a In Is that where woman Is I not lImn dom dominant in her own sphere there you will not have havo great roat heroes or 01 great Ireat think thinkers thinker ers ems er Speaking of ot the women of ot our time this author lads finds that the lie Krench l wo wn woman man titan has Intense c energy always going to extremes ind will carry carl her Ier point through thick thin hut British wo we women women men ho he claims ore too cold collI to take eke their rightful place lace to tn perform I their roper proper part In the Inspiration of or heroes The rime Gorman German woman l In lii for ft u I rather severe criticism He lie says she sheU shei h hI U I iv a mixture ot of the time English ami a the Iho French The rho Berlin new woman I Is d huh zed Iw hr claim t IH ii tin tue society lady luly She Aho tries trios to be lie charm charmIng hog Ing In but cannot succeed she does not hot please picnic man lIan nor woman In Germany they think their greatest character Is IA wonton Timers There they hase hao everything In perfect order their army their theil 1111 their heir education but hut the woman U ii 1 1 time the canker In Prussian life And It ItIs Itis Is through woman that Prussia will go eo goto o oto to tuck rack ruin The author his hili proposition by b reference to history The Tue Spartans he says lIftY were b bent nt on conquering e The TIme Spartan S woman oman however I was more like Ilko Ilk rome come of o the tho American women of today Sho Shuo hc was nn In athlete 11 She did not nol think of oC o moan man except ns as a CL I A boy ho when he hue was WIS seven years old was WM taken away avay from nl hi mother and when married at twenty he was frequently not allowed to t s see He e his hits bride for tor two t If rr h M did we tee her It wits Willi by b These Theil women our author says Bays g wrestled lili lilithe the men In a it 1 state elate of nudity Then llIe here will wag no fl womanhood In them hoot th no more mON than In III to io many sUck sticks To ro this tiu degeneracy of the feminine woman the time writer quoted ascribes a the tho downfall of ot Sparta parti The rho line fine physique developed by b the mo most mott t care careful care ful rul oh physical training could not 81 ae the ho republic predicted that the lie Spartan woman Will wag cure aure to 10 ruin rutn pirth quickly And Alii M so she fhe did for WP wi It Sparta trying to 10 rule nils Grace In III the he I fourth century n 11 C In the third 1 eon cen century tury tory she he was sinking In the thu second century she phe lurid Imd ceased ca to The comparison between our own I limo into 1111 the days of ot old In the light of ot history Is la very ery and should b be Instructive Hut hut to liy py the blame me tot for corI I the lie decay of ot the tho ancient Greek Or k entirely on the wonton of ot that t period i Is la hardly fair air though th Tho standard j i of Qt living for Cor which Split became b famous 08 by IJ the tha lawgivers thu citizens ns naturally I out Jut the Ideals Iden lit held out to them hem t In their j i laws It If the th women loyally adopted i the peculiar ideals of of law IQ even oell evenIn evento In to the annihilation of ot their own we o 0 I manly and thereby brought Injury to th the state slate thu the lawgivers In wore wor At Hi fault and rio no n one oue elite el Hut till Uil Is clear front from he history hili lory of Or o that neither physical thor nor enn can save nave it II from froll room the mo ml life u is and this Is ID a leaton for tor our own In which athletic Ij mire are the preference over both Intellect and ond conscience Hint Is 13 wrong A nation needs more that than tho the careful attention to tile the I body bUdY 1 oil foil through thirst fur for power Hr over ocr tho the other othel Greeks Crocks Kven X no litton phon i Implores that hULL th S sought nought to 10 obtain a n c sovereignty nty they y were not entitled to instead of milking making them selves Hives worthy of 01 retaining the tho leader leadership leadership ship The Tho result was that thaI the tile Greeks ks combined t her to prevent find and tithe tills says 11 IK II no nn wonder monder the lie no live according to the la u rIll II Rave 1111 e them then This Thill indicates Indicated the tho fulfil Ono One of lit it the rules of ot Spartan life va was that citizens could hU no ui Ii private to property III In money mon This chi law Ia a n deuil the lie Inevitable result re wan Willi thai hint some become became wealthy wealth and others poor The Tho latter became 1 more Inore und more oIlS III to children the population lation lIero of for or children hut but without result insult At the tho into of lit their highest po PoWer cr tIme the hail had numbered or more At tho time of there ivero about 1000 and tutu n it hundred l liter Inter only on I of ot which not mow IlION than titan ons uris hundred were land owners There won COO poor Spartans und ItOh very vcr ilch Tip fit T old aid rules out lit if life lito could under the circumstances circumstance no longer I maintained The Tho wealthy It h led lell a II life of ot luxury tho the monopolized i by them The flu poorer poorer cla became virtually slaves they th y were vere re ro reduced dulcet rl to the level of 01 tho thu These e are historical facts of lit special interest t to 10 our time Voe e should to In the In iii which Ir Her lIel nations lie perished |
