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This page presents competing visions of feminism circa 1915. The main text consists of three philosophical essays debating women's liberation: **Benjamin De Casseres** celebrates Woman as an amoral "Superman" figure—passionate, willful, unconstrained by conscience or convention. He invokes tragic heroines (Antigone, Cordelia) and the suffragist Pankhurst as examples. **Anna Forbes Liddell** argues feminism will bring universal peace, since women—producers of life—won't consent to war's destruction. She distinguishes the "Motherhood of Woman" as eternal truth from mere male ideals. **The final essay** treats feminism as vital instinct and "dynamite" breaking through social crust, dismissing the suffrage movement as merely "pedantic" activism while praising socialism as more radical. The page juxtaposes these abstract debates with mundane **advertisements** (steamship vacations, Listerine mouthwash, farmland), creating ironic contrast between lofty feminist philosophy and commercial consumer culture. The satire likely mocks both feminism's grandiose rhetoric and its trivialization by advertising.

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great dramaturge of life, the supreme immoralist. These things make her the glory of the planet. She knows nothing—cares nothing—for justice, truth and the other gilded idols of the market place. When she has set her heart on at- taining a thing she will go through hell-fire and all the Magna Chartas that were ever written to attain it, Scruples are for over-intellectualized man. Conscience has always made a poltroon out of him. Woman comes straight from the loins of the gods: Division —— Spend your asf vacation on the cool waters of =! the North Enjoy a restful cruise along the most picturesque water route on the continent. From Niagara Falls and Toronto —across the broad expanse of Lake Ontario—through that wonderland, the Thousand Islands—the thrilling descent of the St. Lawrence Rapids to Montreal, Quebec, Murray Bay and Tadousac. ‘Then up the Sague- nay River Canyon past Capes Trinity and Etemity and into the Laurentian Pictou, N.'S.: of on through to New York Gye ir particularsaphty ‘chet or tonrist nts postage for illustrated guide: Address Dist. A. = ——— sees THiliy and Eternity, Segueney River Canyon —— Vacation Trips on the Ocean 2,000 miles on palatial 10,600 ton SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS ‘Morgan Line’’ NEW YORK to NEW ORLEANS Stop-over in this quaintest of American cities, Your choice of returning by steamship of rail. If you are going further west, take the SOUTHERN PACIFIC—SUNSET ROUTE “The Exposition Line 1915" SUNSET LIMITED Every Day—No Extra Fare Full information from L. H. NUTTING, General Passenger Agent Room 37, 366 Broadway, at Franklin St, N.Y. 39 Broadway 1158 Broadway What she wants she'll go and take. Her Will is her conscience. Feminism is the new Promethean fire that will make mankind heroic again. It is the eternal return to the Supreme Fact. I glorify Woman as the tempestuous rebel of everyday life. She is always Antigone, Cordelia, Brunnhilde, Isolde, Pankhurst. She has been and ever will be the Superman, Benjamin De Casseres. Feminism HEN the world has recognized the right of women to assume half the authority and responsibility of controlling its affairs, Universal Peace will become an established fact instead of an elusive dream. Wars, inflicting misery and death upon indi- vidually innocent people, will cease. Women labor to produce life; they know its cost too well to consent to destroy it needlessly. Every woman's child is precious to every other woman. The Brotherhood of Man may be only a beautiful ideal, but the Motherhood of Woman is an eternal truth. Anna Forbes Liddell. On Feminism EMINISM is an instinct for life. It is a pregnant gesture. It is like a Cubist picture or a stick of dynamite. It breaks through the crust, as dynamite is used to break up baked earth, so that new seeds can grow. It is a strenuous straining teward an unexisting condition. It has the in- tense hope of the first moment of amorous expectation. The Suffrage movement is the pe- dantic and sterilized husk of feminism, Thg Socialist Party is the pedantic ISTERINE is the best of all good mouth-washes. Use it every day. LISTERINE not only cleanses and puri- fies the mouth, and neutral- izes breath odors, but is an important factorin the pres- ervation of the teeth. For over 30 years it has enjoyed the confidence of physicians and dentists, 4 Virginia Farms and Timber Lands \ ted $5.00 an acte and up. Rich lands, bert Gian Keay thanks Kappy farmers" Calon Romex “Canoe be B. T. Watkins & Co. Inc., 23 Nerth Math St, Richmced, Te