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Show Ift-. Varkhurst on "the New Woman.' But, whatever certain adventurous women may think about it, it is sufficiently suffi-ciently clear that nature has certain pretty decided opinions 'of its own on the matter, and that nature has eo wrought its opinions into the tissue of woman's physical constitution and function func-tion that any feminine attempt to mutiny mu-tiny against wifehood, motherhood and domestic "limitations" is a hopeless and rather imbecile attempt to escape the inevitable, writes the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst in an article on "The True Mission of Woman" in The Ladies' La-dies' Home Journal. All the female congresses in the world might combine in colossal mass meeting and vote with passionate show of hands that woman's sphere is coincident with the spherity of the globe or even of all the heavens, but the very idiosyncrasy of her physical physic-al build and the limitations essentially bound up iu it will sponge out her mass meeting resolutions as fast as she can pass them. It is well enough for her to say that she wishes she were a man, but she is not, and till she is she might as well succumb to the fact that God and nature na-ture had very different intentions for her from what he had for her brothers, and that he recorded his intentions in a way that he has taken some pains to prevent pre-vent her being able to forget. Iam really real-ly sorry for those women that wisn they were men. I wish they were. It would be such a relief to the rest of uh as well as to them |