Show Modern Modern- Woman Is Superior to I Grandmother I I London The London The Tile woman woman of today Is In Inv Intellectually tel and physically phs ph's ally superior to ready ever her grandmother of the blush and the the thedo do downcast eye ee Her Iler her latchkey Is the badge of pation She She is no longer the wooed wood d but the tho wooer She has and exer exercises vises c ses the rJ ht to select her own mate mute Dr Alfred V. V the latest champion of the modern won woman nn advanced ad ad- 11 advanced this this' this courageous courageous theory a at a recent lecture at the Central hall discussing dis discussing cussing that strangely tangled subject subject sub sub- The he Psychology of th the Female Mind The subject says Doctor S Schofield presents at the Ithe m moment n t n a a dissolving view of glen great t promise The Thc woman of or early Victorian days s has tins nearly disappeared disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis- dis appeared though she may still t ll e found In remote country the places places the gentle quaint prim yet graceful lad lady with her tippet and poke bonne bonnet samplers and her her still room But ut the new is better Th The comin coming picture Is on nobler and grander lines linos The gentle submission s Ion on and downcast cIst e eye e emay may not b be easy to find nowadays s 's but but- they have been replaced by the candid candid can can- did and clear lear look 1001 of complete emancipation eman eman- the upright figure of the thet freedom n. n i Marvel Marvel in Rapid Advance The marvel maryel is Is' that with such rapid advance nd there there has not not been more been more ex- ex Setting aside exceptions nothing Is more deU delightful 11 and marvel marvel- j 1 ous us- us than the quiet d decent cent self respect lug ing dignity of the modern latchkey young woman living in her own rooms In a large cit city Very severe strictures strictures' have haye b been en passed oa on n. n her dr dress ss in these last few years ears b but lt th that 1 has somewhat con confused used tl the e causes In all times time of war wm and general upheaval similar caprice in fn wo women's nel s. s dr dress ss has been observed but that t was was not in anyway any way the outcome of the emancipation of womanhood Th The remarkable lack of women's Interests In in their own minds Doctor Schofield points points' out ut Is a a avery very curl curious us point No doubt this Is a survival of the past b bad years eais After the the most most careful sear search h in the libraries of the world no works on psychology gy written by women are discoverable save perhaps perhaps per per- haps t tentatively by by bf that remarkable Swede er Ellen Key The world still sUlI waits walts for a true conception conception conception con con- of the female mind written by bya a a. woman The future of England and America largely depends on the quality qualIty quality ity of oi- oi womans woman's mind today A k good ph physique Is l Important t to the next generation gen gen- generation of of woman but the e q quality allty of Tier her mind Is gr greater ter importance than her het h r. r body In proposed legislation which I is now being consid considered with Ith regal regard to the prevention of a n certain Contagious disease the question really turns on n whether t the c health or the morals of a n nation are of greater Im Int In IR ultimate analysis there is no o antagonism between health and morals t Value of M Mans Man's ns Body In earlier times the tIie value of mans man's body was tt-as supreme a yoman's womans mind then was Wis' cultivated bett better r than a aman's amans mans man's and her preponderance as a sex in spiritual matters was vas overwhelm overwhelming ing v When man however substituted machinery for man manual al labor his bodily powers were heavily discounted and his success in lif life depended on his intellectual In in- In Intellectual po powers ers at the he sume tm time relieved of constant physical exhaustion exhaustion s. tion his spiritual nl outlook approximated ed ell more nearly to that hat of women Since then the resemblance of the sexes saes has increased The result is nowhere more marl marked d than In the typical of f John Bull A hundred years rears and more ago ugo the time streets In this country were were filled tilled with portly rubicund men stern or jovial of visage aril anc vastly different different differ lifler- ent from the more Intellectual Intellect fil but slightly anaemic and and attenuated Individuals individuals In In- dl who fill their role tOd today y The doc doctor r admits s tI that at the substitution substitution tion Uon of tea and coffee for b beer er has been a minor factor In the change The m mothers mother's atmosphere atmosphere in tile the home Is stronger than heredity Every Every Every Ev Ev- Ev- Ev ery training college for women must Include special Instruction n In the right education of childhood The character charac acter ac- ac ter tel of the child even of the nation depends depends depends de de- de- de mainly not on heredity but on environment nt or atmosphere discipline or habit and anel so ideal or example In Inthe inthe In Intha the tha parents parent's life It is absolutely cruel to allow girls to become wives and mothers without their acquiring any kno Pledge ledge of these mighty forces any idaa of the value of their own minds nay Insight into these great but simple powers ot or r any un- skill in In their use Endowment or Motherhood Man Is mainly in virtue of his eco ceo economic po position i principal prIncipal selector in matr matrimony q o fact which is detrimental detrimental detri detri- mental to the status of woman and her offspring So So- long as women are mostly dependent on their fathers until until un un- un- un til they change that for dependence on their husbands will willI they continue to retain many of the tho characteristics peculiar to the servile state stute The Tho endowment endowment- of 01 m motherhood Isone isone Is Is' Isone one solution of this financial difficulty though by no means the best for all nil state Intel Interference er In In private life ismore Is Ismore more or orless less of ot otan an evil Once Once Once-a u nce-u n woman's womans wom worn I ans an's Independent economic position is la L r S assured she will will probably select her In a wa WU w uld now note with standards standards' of conduct be Le considered considered con con- perfectly Indecent but hut seeing she is the mother of the resulting race It seems only right she should should do so One thing Is certain that a large number of 01 degrading ng unions which now take place would at once cease and the w whole ole psychology of marriage would be rals raised d to a hl higher l er ervel level vel Until the economic position of women women wom wom- en 1 Is altered woman Is most unfairly handicapped hm It is undoubtedly for forthe the good of the Individual of the na na- of civilization Itself that the financial n position of a woman shall sha l b ba be a assured as us that of a man mall Alrea Already the freedom of women has begun but It Is in vain to strike off the prisoners prisoner's prisoners prisoner's prison prison- ers er's shackles one by bone one so Iong long as the most galling one of all is retained In Inthe Inthe inthe the form of economic dependence No doubt professional and business Careers careers ca Ca- reels reel's hate o f to s some m small ex extent ent solved the problem in but much more Is re re- re A radical change of view as asto asto to the provision on of daughters as us compared com corn pm pared d. d with sons seem seems to Doctor Schofield to be an st step p. p |