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Wnmen Have Show
What They Gan' Do and
Science Iw Backs
the Contention.
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Zdame, you're as good a man as merits were obtained of no less than 1379
young women, and also of their mothers.
It was found that m height, bust measure
and length of ', limbs the daughters of this
generation excel their mothers, who were :
the girls of the preceding generation. i f
any of us. ' '
Maybe belter.
You haven't had a fair ihow, that's all.
If you had your rights, according to the dis
tinguished authority dn psychological medi
cine, Dr. Thomas Ctaye Shaw, of St. Bar
tholomew's Hospital, in London, you would
be not only the most beautiful creature on
earth, but you would stand a fair hance of
being 'the wisest and strongest.' ,-
Instead of being at the mercy, of cruel,
callous, eternally selfish and unsympathetic
man, you could walk right vp to -the polls
and get a dollar and a half, for your price
less privilege of the franchise just the same
as he does, or nobly refuse to be bribed, as
he to of ten doesn't. . -r
You could sweep right into court, at
tired in your gown: which ' is ad mirably
suited to the roles of the' judiciary, take his
place on the bench, and give him thirty Jays
for ever tiaving presumed to consider him
self your superior in anything. I v V
These and men j other prizes of life;
are sight within your grasp, according to
Dr. Shows philosophf of your psychology,
tnentality and muscle. - , " ' -
Scr are you behind man in your phys- A
teal, development, so. that your brain is go- .
tng to have a body tig enough and sound '
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Russia crawling into bomb proofs and pulling
,,. the proofs in after him. And she began as the
slare wife of a weak emperor, at that.
.Talk of lady lion tamers! The empress of
, China haa been taming 400,000,000 of them for
. more than forty years, while she has been sur
rounded with millions of Russian bears and
y Japanese leopards getting only an occasional
' lap ' at her blood, although both of them are
eager to eat her alive.
.' . In art there is Madame Bernhardt, whose
record of rfarewells to the stage compares fa-
, vorably with that of the empress of China.
This is repeated because their records are the
well as her acting, either the craft and art-of aa
. Irving in England, or of , a Alansfield in
.America. Crituvism has neYer-vy.et ventured to -class
any one of those three, men as a second
rater; and it has not quite dared vaunt any of '
;them as the Bernhardt's equal.
While thinking of queens and kings, real
and mimic, one might hunt the whole monarchy
of Portugal over and fa.il to find as good a, man
as Queen Amelie, jthe weman whose foresight,
firmness and prudence shone in such heartening -contrast
with the bestial gormandizing" of her
spouse, while heft, unflinching courage in the
tragedy that ended his dull career was sur
passed by no man at no more ter.rible crisis of ,
history. , ,
Look beyond the orchestra, and Madame
Jfelba, in the domain of song where braina
count for as much as . vocal cords can afford
1 'to smile in supreme contempt of the endeavor
of even ao splendid a tenor as Caruso to rival
her sheer sweetness of melody, in facility of
T technique, in the admiration of connoisseurs
1 and in the material earnings of the musical
j career. . , '.'''" ,:,,', 'lyi-i
. Is it composition f France has her Madame
Chaminade, whose works ' are 'enjoyed by" tha ' ;
multitude as they are appreciated by the dilet
tanti. No composer's style is' mdre distinctive. '
Is it letters I ' Mrs. Humphry , Ward is merely ,"
one shining light among the . thousands" of
f women, who have today left tho male story-tellers
only the disagreeable vocations of ' pounding
, bricks instead of typewriters or pushing carta
( instead of pencils. 1 ''" -' '
Science!. Madame Curie has given to, sci-. .
ence the greatest discovery of the new century.''
FOUNDER OF A RELIGION
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crowning glory of both. The world would per-
OT to ui tuntU- that, given iimilar.eir-" Tor jmtarieer V . ?
'cumstanoea, you couldn't do a good . '. , ' There' u th; - unprest'- dowager of ; China, ; mit the .retirement of neither, because it too
.deal more than has been-accomplished , whoae record of farewells from the stage of her . greatly, admires the one in, too greatly tears
cnourh to respond to all the needt of its hurried glance croa,th hrn'riita of human : rood record in -"farewella while her ooition. 1 A for VidfrM IVrahardt's intcHectaal
expanding possibilities. - . ' . . . n nd the cez proclivities of "the Boi - as' conquerable - autocrat of China has Em- gra.sr, no man has ye. been found who was over
Ovet m En tland scuntifc measure, cert1P1 BP plenty of the high peaks . peror WiEiam'a German imiution torched to anxioua to compare, with hrr acting, that of
''wye measure, . M burg dauactly femiiiiat ia their xutur': a calcined rienrrlmitw.1 with - CnKM FruWor with her taecraft as
Religion ? Mrs. Mary Baker O. Eddy founded '
one beside which the Dowie mushroom in re-
ligion compared aa the tents of the Arabs com-.) ,
pare with the eternity in business of the Sphinx. , .:
Anything else f Why even down in Texas, '
Mrs. Helen M. King can Tound up oattle better! ;
than Dowie ever rounded Tup-souls and skin
' them to a far better profit. - j - : H t i )
There is plenty of proof in history, ancient
as well as modern, for the new gospel of ' ,
. woman's fitness to play man. ' v .1
Dr. Shaw'a unexpected acclaim of the ex t
, cellence, if not the superiority, of ! woman ''
startled the suffragettes of England into a new .
and sublime confidence in the success of .their t!
cause, for they were absolutely deaf to. that1.
other story which, he intimated, might change '
womankind's notions of the desirability of prov'
ing herself man's equal. "
J It startled the austere London Lancet into
an editorial' which stimulated still further tho
sensation the great specialist's dictum had
aroused. , ' .' :
i "Dr. T. Claye Shaw; that very competent
authority," the 'Lancet observes, "greatly tfar
- ing, addresses himself to a deliberate compari
' son between the two sexes of the human race.
In his . interesting summary of the essential
points of resemblance and of dissimilarity of-
,4A in rmr nhapvatinn hv iYin two sexes. Dr. i
' Shaw'a general view of the whole question leads
aim to a conclusion which may, perhaps, oes ce
, expressed by saying that the resemblances are '
inherent and absolute, while the differences are
artificial r accidentaL -I-
Dr. Shaw in his summary is equally anxious
t to b precise in saying jutt what he does think
- about it,-but even the cautious Lancet and his
own cautious self fail to fall short of saying, ia
so many words, that you, ladies, are men as
. much as Any of us. Tea, and sometimes wore.
. "There are. men. remarks the great au
thority, "of whom it may be "id tha: there is
much of the woman in them; and there are what
are called masculine women, mho eeem to t
composed largely of the attributes of the rr.i!
mind. We shall e that much depfcis v; i
education and ennrcniaeEt. and that, ncf;t i i
oue particular direction, thr it in rf ..'.:.
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