AMERICAN WOMEN.

Bruce Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 1933, 17 February 1888, Page 6

AMERICAN WOMEN.

Nothing in the United States struck me more than the fact that the remarkable

intellectual progress of that country is very largely due to the efforts of American women, who edit many of the most powerful magazines and newspapers, take pirt in the discussion of every question of public interest, and exercise 'an important influence upon growth and tendencies of literature and art. Indeed, the women of America are the one class in the community that enjoys that leisure which is so necessary for culture. The men are; as ; a rule, so absorbed in business, that the task of bringing some element of form into the chaos of daily life is left almost entirely to the opposite sex, and an eminent Bostonian once assured me * that in the twentieth century the whole culture of his country-would be in petticoats. By that time; however, it is probable that the dress of the two sexes will be assimiatedy as similarity of costume always follows similarity of pursuits.— Oscar Wilde, in The Woman's World.