Show Reviews Three Articles on the Woman Question The author of The Heavenly Twins Twin in an article published recently in the North American Review gives her views on the new aspect of the woman question Ouida replies in the May number of the Review and there is also a second arti article le by the first named writer in the same number Many witty and exceedingly exceedingly exceedingly ex ex- caustic things are said on either side Each of these writers is in ina a sense a true type of the class she de de- fends Anyone who has read The Heavenly Twins and who has not should do so at once will have a pretty good idea of its authors author's ideas on this absorbing question Ouida on on n the contrary contrary contrary con con- is a woman of the old school who believes that for woman innocence and virtue are synonymous terms Ouida is a genius and as such belongs as she herself puts it to a third set which is above the laws of the multitude and we are inclined to believe that this fact renders her unfit to judge the ordinary woman At any rate it is apparent that she misjudges the the New Woman so far faras faras faras as the term applies to American women We are of the masculine gender and therefore are not flattered by Mrs Grands' Grands criticisms of the Man of the Moment but we we recognize more than thana a grain of truth in what she says In Inmany many ways the American girl the girl the mother of the American woman woman woman-is is is fast becoming the superior of her brother the American youth She will soon be his equal the way things are progressing progressing progressing progress progress- ing even in physical al endurance If we ask where are the men says Mrs Grand the answer is in mischief mischief or or else in bed and it f sounds like a note of national I Girls can be bu busy y from morning till night in-doors in and out They attend to their duties and their pleasures pleas pleas- ures too work walk ride drive and dance to-day to and come down as fresh as ever to do the same tomorrow without any stimulant but their own good spirits good appetites and unimpaired unimpaired unimpaired paired digestions But with regard to the young men after any extraordinary exertion it is always the same story the gentlemen are in bed Men crave idleness and luxury women activity and enjoyment Many of the young men are becoming alarmingly alarmingly alarmingly alarm alarm- effeminate while on the other hand the so called masculinity of the fin de girl sits sit very well upon her it is a decided improvement We do donot donot donot not believe that woman will lose any of her charms by becoming stronger and physically nor do we believe man would lose by becoming more womanly in the sense of more refined refined refined re re- fined and more moral Notwithstanding Ouida's Guidas witty of what she s seems ems to consider an unworthy class we hail the new woman it i lIt 1 jj J J t |