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and introduces his own "Gyneacocentric Theory." All who are interested in the deeper scientific aspects of this question are urged to read that chapter. Prof. Ward's theory is to

power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from conflict with the elements; from enemies without and within-the prowling

; if you shoot a bear or a bird, it is a fair sample of the species; yo

wed; the dog is said to have the most diseases second to man; the horse comes next; but the wild

in this way. We speak of "the ills that flesh is heir to" as if the inheritance was entailed and inalienable. Only of late years, after much study and long struggle with this old

fective, the digestion unreliable, the nervous system erratic-we are but a job lot even in what we call "good health"; and

n any crowd you meet; compare the average man or the average woman with the normal type of human beauty as given

alth and beauty? Is the practical ugliness of our men's attire, and the impractical absurdity of our wome

be the loveliest of all. We are so sodden in the dull ugliness of our interiors, so used to calling a tame weary low-to

cial trades. The Man with the Hoe becomes brother to the ox because of over-much hoeing; the housepainter is lead-poisoned

far as they go; but do n

ing from his labor; but that does not ac

nd even a half-fed savage better developed than a well paid cashier; and a poor peasan

are even doctors who can boast no beauty and but moderate health; there are some of the petted children of t

s, but there is another far more universal in its application and its effects. Let us

ble of maintaining themselves. Every creature which has remained on earth, while so many less effective kinds died out, remains as a conqueror. The speed of the deer-the constant use of speed-is what keeps it alive and makes it heal

on. Throughout nature the male is the variant, as we have already noted. His energy finds vent not only in that profuse output of

stronger than his fellows; he is first proven equal to his environment by having lived to grow up, then more than equal to his fellows by overcoming them. This higher grade of selection also develops not only the characteristics necessary to ma

terfered with the laws of nature. The ancient proprietary family, treating the woman as a slave, keeping her a prisoner and subject

mile after mile, hour after hour. Running is as natural a gait for genus homo as for genus cervus. Now suppose among deer, the doe was prohibited from running; the

dden in harems, kept to the tent or house, and confined to the activities of a house-servant. Our stalwart laborers, our proud soldiers, our athletes, would never have appeared under such circumstances. The confinement to the house alone, cutting women off from sunshine and ai

at even under confinement and restriction women could have kept up the race level, passably, through this great function of selection; but here is the great fundamental error o

is clear. The woman was deprived of the beneficent action of natural selection, and the man was then, by his own act, freed from the stern but elevating effect of sexual selection. Nothing

lligence, strength, skill, health, or beauty to be a h

intelligence, strength, skill, health or beauty to

, at the beginning of life, we have perverted the

at the squaw belongs to a decadent race; that she too is subject to the man, that the comparison to have weight should be made between our women and the women of the matriarchate-an obvious impossibility.

into the race, is a blow at real human progress in every particular. In our upward journey we should and do grow larger, leaving far behind us our dwarfish progenitors. Yet the male, in his unnatural position as selector, preferring for reasons both practical and sentimental, to have "his woman" smaller than himself, has deliberately striven to lower the standard of size in the race. We used to read in the novels of the last generation,

bred a race of women who are physically weak enough to be handed about like invalids; or mentally weak enough to pretend they are-and to like it. We have made women who respon

ged. This is a particularly undignified and injurious characteristic, bred in women and inherited by men, most seen among those races which keep their women most closely. Yet when

rom gymnasium measurements of thousands of young collegians of both sexes all over America. The statue of the girl has a pretty face, small hands and feet, rather nice arms, th

human beauty of m

f choice. Bought or stolen or given by her father, she was deprived of the innately feminine right and duty of choosing. "Who

e what is left; and the poor women, "marrying for a home," take anything. As a consequence the inferior male is as free to transmit his inferiority as the superior to give better qualities, and does so-

tion, does there not? Do not the males still struggle to

he field of social service. What is required in organized society is the specialization of the individual, the development of special talents, not always of immediate benefit to the man himself, but of ultimate benefit to society. The best social s

expense of human ones. This may be broadly seen in the slow and painful development of industry an

d reason. Read about any "hero" you please; or study the products of the illustrator and note the broad shoulders, the rugged features, the strong, square, determined jaw. T

og and the alligator, and toward the measured dignity of the Greek type. The possessor of that kind of jaw may enabl

on of our bodies, what is the inf

an appearance of the masculine instincts of self-expression and display. Alone among all female things do women decorate and preen themselves and exhibit their borrowed plumage (literally!) to attract the favor of the male. This ignominy is forced upon them by their position of economi

eme, and when we add to it the flow of color, the ripple of fluent motion, that comes of a soft, light garment over free limbs-it is a new field of loveliness and delight. Naturally this should have filled the whole world with a new pleasure. Our garme

is th

ironment, have evolved the mainly useful but

show no signs of knowing the difference. They show no added pride in the beautiful, no hint of mortification in t

sorption in dress and decoration is abnormal, and they have never looked, from a fra

me clothes. There follow other influences, similar in origin, even more evil in result. To roughly and briefly classify we may distinguish the diseases due to bad

well recognized evil of the second, so long called "a social necessity," and from it, in deadly sequence, comes the "wages of sin;" death not only of the guilty, but of the innocent. It is no light pa

too should bear part penalty was found unavoidable, though much legislation and medical effo

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Machine." He is a successful craftsman, an artist of power; and has that requisite so often missing in our literary craftsmen and artists-something to say. In his migh

en he considers women. He sees women as females-and does not see that they are human; the universal

he shows simply the old race-mind, that attitude which considers women as mothers, potential, active, and in retrospect; and as nothing else. He likes them as mothers. He honors them as mothers

ation, full of amusing darts and flashes; seeing and showing much that is absurd in our modern uneasiness and w

ence upon some individual man not of their deliberate choice"; and he further says he sympathizes with the woman who lives with a man she

e life and wants to get out of it; as is the case with so many girls today. She wants freedom-room to grow-more knowledge and power-again

xposes herself to insult and even danger with an idiocy that even a novel-reared child of sixteen would have scorned. She falls in love, healthfully enough, with a fine strong man; and sees no reason for avoiding him

her and aunt to dinner, and regarding them as a pair of walking mummies. Nothing more is said of any desire on the part of the heroine for freedom, knowledge, independence; having attained

of choice, should have burdened himself with all this unnecessary complication of special foolishness on the part of his heroine which alienates our sympathy; and special illegality on t

rest among women. What later historians will point out as the most distinguishing feature of our time, its importance shared only by the movement towards economi

ter, seeing no possible interests in the woman's life except those of sex, dismisses all that passionate outgoing as comparable to

wishes to unsex women; to repudiate motherhood; and see in all the natur

sex? Can he not see that the area of human life, the social development of humanity, is one quite common to both men and women; and that a woman, however amply occupie

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sis of character that one wonders who this person and that may be; an

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ng-shaded. A fresh breeze blew in upon them, and the city

wavy lines in it

, I suppose, and the blinds, and the

he agreed, "but n

she said; "we get plenty of

hics of the dust-how much longer must I wait?" he asked, after a little pause.

ink," she admitte

understanding? You'll be chasing off again in a few days; it's blessed lu

"It was business that brought me. I neve

This apartment is right under

better off in the apartment, with Harry. It was very co

al stand th

nt him off two hours ago. I do hope he won't run away fr

ot to catch up, you see. He can't help being mine-half min

you," she conceded. "I hope he always will be,

some, and quick, and such a good little duffer; and so affectionate! When he gives a jump and gets his arms around my neck and his

that. I believe you, I'm not questionin

rs, and then only- What astonishes me is how good they feel in your arms! The little fellow's body

llow of the arm or neck, the fumbling little hands; then the gradual gain in size and strength, till now she held that eager bounding little body, almost s

. I've repented, I've outgrown my folly and seen the justice of my punishment. I don't blame you an atom for divorcing me-I th

Harry, you certainly didn't, nor the child- When I thin

re a finer woman now than you were then; sweeter, stronger, wiser, and more beautiful. When I found you again in Liverpool two years ago it

e forgiving nature. But there is a good deal of reason in your positio

have followed you about for two years. I accepted your terms, you did not promise me anything, but for the child's sake I might try once

ring roofs. Below them lay the highly respectable street on which the house techn

nd she smilingly interpreted "that's railroad iron-or girders, I can tell lots of them now. About four A. M. there

hen I'm trying my best to show you my whole

; yes, as well as you can, very much indeed!-I know. But when it comes to this car question; when I talk to you

m the eager position in which he had leaned forward,

iful and winsome than the strong, angular, over-conscientious girl he had marri

ally responsible for the

rolling shares of the stock. It was your vote th

d at her

nst me Mary. You have more technical information

s what you mean. But he cares. You know how hard the Settlement has worked to ge

do to pile business details on his suit

ain large business questions to a-to anyone not accustomed to them. I cannot s

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tituted "Even to suit the no

ot?" s

rsued patiently. "But why must we talk of this? It seems

but I am no

should really be happier with him than with you. We care for the same things, he calls out the best in me. But I have made no decision in his favor yet, nor in yours. Both of you have a certain

w his chair a little closer. The sharp

eally, I did it because it is that sort of thing which d

ith her big fan. "Let's remo

the dark hair growing somewha

u tried to run your cars to carry people-not to kill them!-If you could change your ground here I think-almost-"

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my dear. Our men are a

children will pla

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," said he with an enforced qui

re they?" she demanded. "Our mothers

wanted to kill them

o you with real hope when we met in Liverpool. I was glad to think I knew you, an

tomed lines. "Those English fender are not practi

was an effort to get them adopted, and that they were refused. They cost more than this kind!" a

system of America-to please you? Do you make it a condi

I'm only wishing, as I have wished so often in

do you want

man who cared to give perfect serv

t open for the children. I don't know much about these things, but I can learn. I can read, you can tell me w

d compelled. He was an able, masterful man. He surely loved her now. She could feel a power over him that h

ingled merry outcry, made into a level roa

s out," she said. "We hear it every

nd watched the many-colored tor

. I looked out, and there was a fight going on; two boys tumbling about from one side of th

streets, don't you. Can you make out that

ou know. I can't distinguish fa

he said. "But what

them. So many children in that stony street, and

, and she seated herself at the piano

so nobly formed, her soft rich gown flowed and followed as she walk

the music, laid it out of reach,

"Come to me and help me to be a better man

his hands,-they had their old-time charm for her. Yet he

but he did not say "I wi

of a city corner, in the dissonant, confused noise of

g color. Softly he drew her towards him. "Even if you do n

him with a frightened s

ed!" she cried.

A great stillness widened and spread for the moment around one vacant motionless open car. Without passenge

towards them, under the middle

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"Oh! It's a child

dead. It's all over. He's quite dead. He never

he tried to take her in his arms, to comfort her,

n save him. Now come back-come here to the window-and see what follows. I want to see wi

watch. "It's 12:

the struggle with which she controlled herself, so inte

d. "Look! See th

the instrument of death was follo

eels, so great a weight on so small a body! The car, still empty, rose like an island from the pushing sea of heads. Men and women cried excited directions. They tried wit

the side rail and strove to lift th

ee, men pushing each other, policemen's helmets rising among the

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ed his lip

ew," he said. "They wi

n't these monsters use their own power to

id no

e body, covering it with a dark cloth. The motorman was resc

. "Ten minutes and it isn't even off him yet

be! Their children go to this school, they live all about below here, she can't even

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he looked down at the crowd shudderingly, and said over and

long time yet before they did their work, and that crushed and soiled little body was borne to

before the ambulance a

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e, one can, with patient rotation, see the universe in spots, through a knot-hole. Such a purview is lim

reage, deeper than their own immediate profit, further than their own immediate time. Some such struggle was no doubt gone through, when that far-seeing iconoclast of early times strove to prove to the greedy hu

extension, for endless fluent combination, than by its leaden immobility. Here are some, open-minded, sensitive and hospitable to new impressions; and here are others, an innumerable majority, preferring always to know only what they h

ed. Upon his growing mind have been imposed in long succeeding years, the iron limitations of his "elders and betters"

expressed by the reply of a dull student to the earnest teacher who strove to arouse in him some spontaneous opinion on human conduct. With enthusiasm and dramatic force, this instructor exhibited the career of Nero,-showed his li

amily begins to pack for a journey. We know personally the difference between our range of thought at one age, and at another; how one's consciousness may include wider and wider fields of knowledge, longer ranges of time, deeper causal relations; and how the same object, viewed by different minds, may arouse in one as it were, a square inch, and in the o

the enemy, to save their lives. Do the citizens do it? Not they. Individually they suffer and die. Individually they grieve and mourn, bury,their dead (when they should cremate them), and pay the doctor and the undertaker. Hundreds of dollars they pay as individuals to

affairs as things of sky-shadowing importance, and those same affairs,

is fed into so many babies, that such a proportion will surely die. He sees, but it does interest him. Show him tubercular bacilli from the autopsy of

t only feel the smaller ones. It

everywhere the same difficulty; they have to stretch the minds, to stimulate the consciousnes

i collectively, for so many ages, that it is a race habit with them. Only in the last extreme of terror is this habit broken, and the battle turn

t part alone. The comradeship of shop and factory is of yesterday, compared to the solitary spindle, loom and forge of earlier centuries. Yet in that comrade

ind much better results than we do. Where the common interest is as clear as day, where the common strength is so irresistible, where the

ess,-the saving of life, the elimination of disease, the development of art and science, of beauty and o

makes us "penny-wise and pound-foolish," makes us "save at the spigot and spend at the bung-hole," which continual

a complaint as this, and then to put forward a

institution as old as house-building, almost as old as the use of fire. The results of this surviving

, there is the kitchen. For each man there is a cook. In the great majority of cases the man's wife is his cook, and as she must spend most of her ti

ded it as an educational influence of no mean importance. "Children brought up by their mothers in the kitchen," we say

e allegation for the evidence. He sees that daily observation, and practice sho

s, it would make them good blacksmiths; if they were brou

ning to mind and hand, why is it that so few of us are willing to follow the kitchen trades when we are grown? and why is it that competence in the kitchen is so rare?" This is a most practical observation. If fifteen-sixteenths of our women followed incessantly the occupation of shoemaking, a

y and girl alike, prefer almost any other trade, and when we wish to

progressive professionalism of its various industries; specialized and socialized one by one. But, left to itself, domestic cook hands do

workshop, as a means of carrying on that great art, science, handicraft, and business

ll secured and its processes directed with a view to pleasing a small group. It does not and cannot consider the general questions

, in means, in capacity, and in mechanical convenience, can consider only; a, what t

tary success depends most absolutely on the commissary and sanitary

gasteropods whether singly or in regiments? Is not the health and strength of the producti

and steel. We lament this-in armies. We prefer to keep our soldiers healthy that they

s so heavily from year to year? Study the record of man's fight with disease. See how the specialists devoting not only lifetimes, but the accumulating succession of lifeti

truth is discovered; a truth is announced; a law

cattle. The Federal Government, furnishing information and funds, and cooperatin

inds, to make us see things in common instead of individually. The men whose cattle had pleuro-pneumonia, kept them in herds, and lost them in herds, losing much money thereby. Many m

e lives and health of all our families, is a domes

ro-pneumonia. They live and may be sold. They live and may give milk. It has been shown recently (as stated in our unimpeachable daily

oes into the kitchen; the blind, brainless, family-f

-meeting of angry women, presenting to their legislators the horrible facts of stron

ake action. Men legislate. The great meat industries stagger under the shock, recover, and go o

eeding of our people is one of the most vital factors in their health, and tha

e great advance in sanitary science is in its battle with the fi

pulsory systems of sewage and drainage, quarantine, isolation hospitals, a

shall eat, or a man or woman? I

ust have four, merely to maintain a stationary population, said Grant Allen; "two to replace themselves and two to die." The doctor wi

excellence! If we could once see outside of these ancient limits, once figure to ourselves the visi

oes not end its injuries with our bodily health. Its

orted by the childish self-interest of its promoters. Kitchen-bred men born of kitchen-bred mothers are we, and inevitably must we consider the main duty of life to be the service of our own body. What else does the child see

trying to lift the standard of bread-making for their country? How many even k

of wide experience; when, instead of dragging duty or sordid compulsion, we have wisdom and art to feed us; the change will be far greater than that of improved health. It will be a great and valuable advance even there. We shall become healthy, clean-fleshed people, intelligent eaters, each generation

wherein the needs of bodily replenishment are fully and beautifully met, it will give to the growing child a different background for his th

about forty-three per cent. of its productive labor, and two-thirds of its living expenses; how it does not conserve the very end for which we uphold it,-the health of the family; how it leaves us helpless before the adu

r rightly estimate social gain, nor rightly condemn social evil, because we are so soddenly habitua

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e had consorted mainly with striplings of his own kind, and

s-their Children. Deeply was he moved by the marvellous instincts and processes of motherhood. Love, reverence, intense admiration, rose in his heart for Her of th

; devoutly he performed his share of the brooding, while she hunted in her turn. When he was o-wing he thought continually of Her as one

grew larger and larger; it was more and more work to keep their lengthening,

ms he began to see sunshine, broad, burning sunshine day after day; skies of limitless blue; dark, deep, yet full

reams too, but he

t heights and boundless spaces of the earth streaming away beneath him; black water and white land, grey water and bro

ning; stars far below, quivering more in the dark water; and felt h

reams too, but he

cried one day. "They ar

ye my wife! Goodbye

Wings was

. "Yes! It is time to Go! To Go!

o on the Great Flight! Your wings are for brooding tender little ones! Your body is for the W

pt and circled far and high above-as, in truth, she had

e was still muttering objections. "Is it not glo

Nature! You have forgotten your Children! Your lovely precious tender h

ped their strong young wings in high derision. They were as big as he

ilver and seafoam, there was a flashing whirlwind, a hurricane of wild joy

better than her dreams, she swept away to the far summerland; and her

r!" he panted, as he

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gaps of domestic life in Orchardina, there was al

"might I petition to hav

to do it, so why not

always forget about the stea

t three times th

nything," she with marked gentleness.

el. I never meant you should cook for me. Inde

replied, still with repression. "I'm not complaining,

ght! It's just this everlasting bother.

far. I'm going again, to-morrow. Cheer up, de

. At first he had tried to help her on these occasions, but their metho

ishes with the labored accuracy of a trained mind doing unfamiliar wor

go anywhere, I sup

ed. Besides-we can't

get. Of cour

orry, dear. It's awfully rough on you wo

than I do, Ned. You see they don'

d she looked at him in the clear moonlight, won

ead a bit?" he offere

aid. And Eddie'll wake

nd the rich flower scents about them, till Eddi

hter sound from the crib. "I am a very happy woman," she told herself resolutely; but there was no outpouring sense o

st work, which won high praise in the school in Paris, not the prize-winning plan for the library, now g

bit surprised at first that "I. H. Wright" was an Isabel. In her further work of overseeing the construction of that library, she had met Edgar Porne, one of the numerous eager young

s so sympathetic! so admiring! He took as much pride in the big "drawing room" on the third floor as she did herself. "Architecture is such fine work to do at home!" they had both agreed. "Here you have y

workshop of white paper and fine pointed hard pencils, her painting the mechanical perfection of an even wash of color. And she saw, through the floors and walls and the darkness, the dust in the little shaded parlor-two days' dust at least, and Orchardina is very d

uncounted treasures. Now, in this dreary mood, it seemed not only a mere workshop, but one of alien tasks, continuous, impossible, like those set for the Imprisoned Princess by bad fairies in the old tales. In thought she entered the well-

site things they meant to her when she had planned them; and each one

ugh-in my own work! Nobody can do everything. I don't believe Edgar'd do it any better than I do.-He don't have to!-and then suc

e asked. "Too tired to sleep, you poor darli

f course I do! I'm just tired,

etting to sleep a

n to the hurriedly spre

, found it a bit diffi

ff, bringing in dishes

e sounds of wai

returning presently with a fine boy of some eleven months, who ceased to bawl

ed him?" asked Mr. Porn

announced wearily. "He ha

vidently forced farther,

eam is sour-the ice didn't come-or at least, perhaps I was out when it came-and then I forgot it. .

d drily. "Are there an

about

, such as it was, and

fruit. She took the

home to lunc

better not," sh

to be an

at six-thirty, if I

ittle pleased by it. "Now don't take it so hard, Ellie. You are a first-class architect, anyhow-one can't be ever

rade! I'm willing to work, I like to work, but I can't bear housework! I

illing matter. Order by phone, don't forget the ice, and I'll try to get home early and help.

fed him, put him to sleep; and came back to the table. The screen door had been left ajar and the house was buzzing with flies, hot, with a week's accumulating disor

giddy circles in the middle of the room. Turning swiftly she shut the door on them. The dining-room was nearly as bad. She began to put the cups and pl

of broken rest and days of constant discomfort and irri

loves me! I'm glad to be his wife! I'm glad to be a mother to his child! I'm glad I married him! Bu

, and then stopped short and laughed dr

l make you happy!' they say; and you get

'Will you give up a good clean well-paid business that you love-that ha

ute if I didn't! What has 'love' to

rose, fiercely ashamed of her weakness, and faced the day; thinking of the old lady who

here t

she meditated aloud. "If I do the upstairs work I might wake him. I mustn't forget

-room, flapping out some of the flies with a towel. Then she essayed the parlor, dusting and arranging with unde

cely muttered, as she fussed about. "Yes-I

at quite still awhile, hoping against hope that he would slee

t and jingling objects from the tall workbasket that stood nea

produced for his amusement, and a desire for closer acquaintance. Then a penetrating odor filled th

ent the doo

able. She looked at the baby-who jiggled his spools and crowed. Then she flew to the

suit, holding a cheap dress-suit case in one hand and a denim "ro

. Edgar Porn

he baby, her nose still remorsefully in the kitchen, her eyes fixed sternly on her v

d from the Rev. Benjamin A. Miner, Mrs. Porne's particularly revered minister, and sta

. Bell, well known

reading the card without in the

followed by a sharp rising one, and she r

nd asked him if he could suggest anyone in immediate need of help in this line. He said he had called here recently, and believed you were looking for someone. Here is the letter I showed him," and she handed Mrs. Porne a most friendly and appreciative recom

rl pleased her, though suspiciously above her station in manner; service of any sort was scarce an

me I will come this week from noon to-day to noon next Friday, for seven dollars, and then if you are satisfied with my wo

spectful. But a week was not long, she was well recommended, and the immediate pressure in that kitchen where the harvest w

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