Show W VT 0 m en as social slaves 1 I cant help wishing said a woman who uha values her friendships atiat we women could rid ourselves of the bobit abt and credit system in our exchange of visits and letters perhaps it Is v relic ot at my quaker ancestry but I 1 feel aa as if in the paying of visits and the writing of letters I 1 would like to be moved by the spirit rather than impelled by the mere circumstance cum stance stanco of Indebted indebtedness nesa often I 1 feel as if I 1 could really enjoy an hours chat with a filena fi lenil but the fact that she bues me a call keeps me at home for I 1 lack the courage to fico lier tier roell 11 bred surprise over my forget tine ling the conventionalities on the other hand it may happen that more moro than the accept accepted od length of time has elapsed since I 1 visited an acquaintance then I 1 am sure when I 1 do go to see her to feel a chilly at ero of injured wonder onder as to why I 1 have not called before no one more thoroughly enjoys writing long 1 letters to her family and friend friends than I 1 do but there aro are days even weeks meeks at a time when bo tho me char ical pushing of a pen la is irl me and I 1 long for some power of telepathy to 0 o communicate with my friends at a distance die tance to force oneself to write letters at such a time scorns seems almost a ein sin 1 I know one woman who actually aicra aa gea a lotter letter a day the tar through if she he misses writing her tier dally eally stunt on week meek days she forthwith makes males up for it by grinding grIndl nR out ont seven letters on sunday I 1 could net not consent to become auch such a mechanical letter writing machine as that 1 I think we women might learn a lesion from our husbands and brothers for Ins instance tonce at dinner my husband v ft ill sa a oh by the way so and so dropped into the office and wo a went out to lunch together ibran t scon him for ever so lone long had a ROOI good visit with hire him and lie wished to bo be remembered to you fine fellow almaa enjoy meeting him or had iliad a lino line today to day from ilia name hes iles out on tin the ciasto been thoro thero six months its the first time I 1 heard board from him sinco he lie left new york im glad he hes s found the place he deserves imagine I magno such case of 0 social rein rela eions bet between cen two to women 1 with 11 it iq I 1 q forever rive give and take pound foi pound in the realms of calls ard correspondence there Is 1 no euch such beine beina eine eina as an emanel emancipated woman |