MODERN WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 719, 19 January 1910, Page 3

MODERN WOMEN.

. Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the dramatist, speaking: at tho Society, of Woman Journalists,; said that "one of the noblest results of bur civilisation was that it was producing a type of: woman whoso attitude to man was changing, a woman who - : was, becoming more and more man's intellectual comrade. In all . tho . intellectual walks of life woman was pressing inj.she was becoming man's successful competitor and his welcome and staunch, friend. In 'fiction she .was proving his equal in matter, and his superior in numbers. But, while -we were" progressing, some notable types of womankind were passing away—the typels presented to ;them by Dickens, Thackeray, and George' Eliot '—delightful English girls, all. of .whom seemed -to bo passing away from. us. There was, however, one type of woman-hood-which he hoped Nature would keep on producing, whatever political or moral earthquakes -might-'happen; and that was the typo of Portia,'Brutus's wife. It was a.' notable fact that nearly all Shakespeare's women were more or less counsellors,' advisers, and. stimulators." '■ !