Show american women the men of a nation inevitable make the women what they willand he women in return impresa upon their children what they have received from the irown father hence it comes that the existence of the american women haa become als most as purely objective as the man her ideal of life from her cradle has been associated with the maximum of exertion there is no quietude among americans and wonderfully little egotism in their social life it i a anding series of anil mental shocks keeps the whole bein in nervous quiver and no time for ft ay iy quality that of energy to develop itself symmetrically tho american woman is as unquiet in her thoughts and enslaved by her duties however light as the ann even when she visits she has no air of repose her conversation is not thoughtful but artful she tells you what she does or suffern erx not what she thinks or feels there is no reverie about her no suggestion tl that brooding spirit which indicates s capacity for impassioned direction a capacity which to bachelors always ideally seductive however attle the married man may appreciate or return it yet generally speaking undemonstrative as tile american girl may be she will wear her life out in working for the man she loves she forgets all about being for him in that merciless energy which always drives her into dang for him there is again another reason why the american girl seems cold to the observer it is because she H free she is educated to ess emotion because her independent movements expose her to contact with men of all classes among whom there are many very vile persons coldness of demeanor therefore is her armor against impertinence or even worse shingi she passes diana like through crowds of men every day not one of whom for one instant suspects her of being other than she is because her manner shows her at once to bo a freeborn spotless american they never dream I hat because no one is watching her she means to go astray the defects of taft american girl may be doue aw ay iy with by giving less prominence to the purely intellectual or purely practical sida other education for while one class c men is striving to solve alio llio problem of life by educating women there is another class which is shouting for education in domestic matters while the professors at are over some who can tako in their philosophies or their mathematic the newspaper editor tings the praises of her who can roast A turkey bake bread or make her own dresses neither gives alie poor girl any chance td exist but only to work with either heind or brain no one says to her you are not ony yourself but pos mihly the future mother of other be indis do not therefore allo v your to be driven by either school or apostles beyond what you anny do easily or alia healthy balance of your nervous aten s fir niora important to you and your future family relations anan all he mathematics or dres anuk ing or even roasting of turkeys occupy yourself but out strain without hirry am with As tho aro and ii mul leave heeti ex for stoid emulation find out biral you can do best and even if it does not come up to somebody clos cl os stan ilard learn to content you aay dithulie |