THE AMERICAN WOMAN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 11

THE AMERICAN WOMAN.

Tho late David Graham Phillips, in his latest— probably his last — published novel, "The Husband's Story," makes out a heavy indictment against tho American Woman, as may be judged from the following quotation: — "Probe to the bottom of any of the present-day activities of the American woman — I care not what it may be, church or lecture, suffrage movement or tenement reform- — and you will discover the bacillus of society position biting merrily away at her. The cruellest indictment of the intellect of woman is the crude, archaic, futile, and unimaginative way in which is carried on the part of life which is woman's peculiar work — or, rather, is messed, muddled, slopped, and neglected. It may be that woman will some day develop another and higher sphere for herself. But first she would do well to learn to fill the sphere^she now rattles round in, like one dry pea in a ten-gallon can. I want to see a few more women making a living without using, their sex charms — a few less tending the typewriter with ono eye, while the other and busier one is on the look-out for_ a husband. The American woman fancies she is growing away from the American man. The truth is, that while she is sitting still, the American man is growing away from A woman writer in the New York Times cays : "This is not pleasant reading for smug women, bursting with selfpraise, and scorn of the other sex. It is certainly much pleasanter to be assured (as they will find plenty of books to assure them) that the American women are the most wonderful women in the world, j than to be told the plain truth, that they | are the most spoiled, the most incompetent in the things that count, and the hardest on their husbands, demanding more and giving less than any other women in the world. No one denies that the surgeon's knife is painful. • The question is, Is it needed ? If a spray of rosertater will answer the purpose as well, by all means take the rose-water."