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Show The Sexes in America. James Huneker. in the August Everybody's America is the field in which will be harmoniously adjusted the differences of das Ewig-Weibliche and the eternal eter-nal dominering male. Woman is not inferior to man but different from him, as Stendahl would say. Nevertheless Neverthe-less the two sexes are slowly approaching. approach-ing. The man of today is more feminine fem-inine than his predecessors; that is. he is more gentle, civilized: while the woman, casting away old-fashioned incrusting orejudices, is more masculine; mascu-line; i. e., she is not only more athletic in her tastes than her grandmother-she grandmother-she is mentally broader and firmer in her judgments. (Some day she will be so far "envolved" that she will be charitab'e to her own sex.) The franker frank-er association of the sexes has proved tonic to th- woman, refining to the man. These are schoolboy truisms, but they will, always stand quotation. |