Show modern more intimate unity among amond I 1 dea I 1 human family dy by ADA MAY N ANATOMIST of humor supposes eup poses that if all the nations of A all tile ages were ere to see each other in a colossal crowd their first impulse would be to laugh at each aeh others differences for differences are a chief stock in trade of humor and the mainstay of the tourist lecturer who expects laughter whenever ho he describes some custom institution or costume at variance with those in vogue among his hearers in primitive peoples the dissimilarities aro are taken more seriously all foreigners fore ignera are for no other reason than that they are of different blood and breeding than the natives distinctions in caste are insisted upon with sanctimonious rigor and ana the demarcations between the lives of the sexes are made with care and solemnity these distinctions persist so BO far into civilized life that even nowadays they all seem to hold in greater or less measure among the m most ost modem and cultivated of nations yet they chow many changes patriotic sentiment is the surviving relic of the hostility against the bloody fur furriness fum nera as the irishman phrased it and even this transfigured trans figured and highly refined hostility is regarded as a primitive ideal current differences in social rank we democratically denounce as most horrifying but they compare well with the feudalistic and oriental castes of a few hundred years ago and the differences in the lives 0 of f men and women have so BO far been annihilated that when bicycles were the fashion it was recorded la in a funny column that the aged clergyman at tile the summet summer resort did not know which was bride and which groom the th e social distinctions which formerly were regarded as mut mutually bally inimical in these latter days are being conceived as mutually helpful the old fashioned social ideal was waa for the exclusive set successful was tho the hostess whose drawing rooms were frequented by the few social settle settlement menters era were wont vont in days of old to betake themselves to the poorer quarters of the city for the sake of their unfortunate fellows but nowadays they find equal argument in their own behalf many of them feel that they get more than they give and the settlement feeling spreads apace in new york it was said that formerly there were two classes of people those who had lived in settlements and those who had not hot but that nowadays there was only class everybody had lived in in a settlement the same dictum applies with perfect fitness to the differences in masculine and feminine careers man and woman go to college man and woman itoman enter professions there are arc wives and in ever larger numbers who insist upon economic independence and a profession after marriage as before the view they take of things makes for the abolition of the ancient divisions arising from isolated homes these centers of that prehistoric institution the family are thought by some borne as predestined to extine unction thus fulfilling the modern ideal for tile admi annihilation hi of aba old amore almore intimate duniy among the human h family Y |