Life — May 6, 1909 — page 44: what you’re looking at

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It is possible that such a result will fol- low on the present revolt of womankind; mean- time, coupled with another equally prominent feature of their sex in the present time, it is certainly one of the most curious of our social phenomena. We have studied it as such with some degree of attention, and we have come to the conclusion that, despite the prominence of its school, it is not ‘altogether so original as it b lieves, and it does not very clearly know what it actually aims at and requires. Equality with men,’ we are this is exceedingly difficult to define it is perfectly easy to pass jests upon, and con coct witticisms out of, such a subject; the ug gest themselves by the million. The harder ¢ fort is to avoid the attractively and facilely ludicrous side of. the subject and write upon it seriously. All jests apart, it is something diffi- cult to define—this equality with men that is the female cry of the hour. If equality in privileges be taken, equality in liabilities must be enforced atso. Are women to go to this extreme?—to become soldiers if they become surgeons; to t come sailors if they become statesmen? W doubt if they are prepared to reach this length: but unless they are, the desire for “ equality with men’ is only another phase of the desire for every privilege and the exemption from every penalty. We can thoroughly sympathize with the im- patience of a clever woman at seeing herself excluded from an arena of public life in which some masculine fools and many masculine medio- crities succeed. We are fully prepared to admit answered. But Of course | AROUND THE WORLD CRUISE By S, S, ARABIC, 16,000 Tons, Oct. 16 30 TOURS to EUROPE, $270 UP that here and there may arise a woman of such brilliant abilities that she would be fully capable of governing an empire or manceuvring an army. But such women come once in five centuries; and this question is not of exceptional, but of all, women, The equality demanded is not for the few, but for the many. It is of the admission of the many to its rights and exercises that we have to treat; not of the admission of the two or three great women who adorn a century, and who, be it noted, generally contrive to do well for themselves and rarely are participants in the cry of which we have heard so much in late years. Where real genius appears it levels sex; but this is at all times rare, in women rarest, and it is of the vast mass of “the gen- eral" that we speak. Maria Theresa, Catherine, Manon, Roland, Hypatia, Corinna, Sappho, will always make their own mark on the world’s his- tory; but the plea now raised is for the admis- sion of all women—on the simple score of wom- anhood—to the possession of the paths and thrones of men.—From a@ posthumous paper by Ouida in Lippincott's. 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