| Show f THE NEW WOMAN she from a to be B diug factually let nUy attractive one of those emancipated women who are am said to be abroad in the land but who cant be distinguished by men tro m any other women writes as fol lovs without going into all the dry details of the relationship of the sexes in primitive times and among uncivilized peoples we may lust just take the broad facts which are an mown to and admitted by every everyone woman has of course always been and always must be mans physical anfee inferior or and in times time past she has been actually if not literally his slave she has been the toy and sport of man with one on and only one chance of asserting herself this has been the exercise of per tonal onal charm which has enabled her to move in man the passion called love and thereby to secure an ascendancy over him the love of power which Is common to both sexes has been hers and realizing that she could only te be powerful by arousing the sentimental passion in man she has put forth all her endeavors to find favor in his right eight as the old phrase has hag it now as one of those women omen to whom men apply the scornful term emancipated I 1 should like to point out this important fact that our sex acx la is gradually beginning to recognize that it is ignoble to seek for admiration simply for its doll like qualities tips we have not lost our vanity though we WB are no vainer than men but we are now new aiming at winning admiration in worthier fields namely in intellectual tel walks we shall still pride ourselves our on our good looks when we have them we shall still do our best to dross drass w well ell and tastefully we shall still look forward in wifehood and shall not 10 los SP our aur maternal instincts but meshall we shall no longer allow our features and ou ow r gowns to dominate our lives undoubtedly we ve are emancipated all fields of activity are being 0 opened to us and the men who now sneer and gibe at us for our new newness mess will soon come to see that we are more companionable io and possess more lasting attractions tr than in the days when our faces were our fortune and when a few wrinkles and gray hairs announced tho end of our reign to put my arguments into a nut shell hell my contention is that the prevailing passion of women has been the love of admiration because it has become an hereditary instinct of the race that in personal charm lay our only power now that we are at last allowed to cultivate our intellects and put them to practical use our bid for power will be on what I 1 consider higher grounds |
