COMMENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 12884, 6 August 1906, Page 7

COMMENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.

If men would only . . . emancipate their wives it would do more to promote domestic fehcity than anything else on earth. Now anl then there is a husband who grants to his wife the liberty to do as she thinks best, and the reward is that these husbands are simply worshipped by their wives. Nor do they make licence of liberty, for nothing cures us of our desire to walk around the block without anvbody holding our bands so quickly as the knowledge that we are free to do it whenever we choose.—Dorothy Dix. Any normal child—physically and mentally—can be trained to accomplish the work that would seem only possible to a. genius. Placed in good environments and properly trained, the normal child will do what we expect oidy of unusually gifted ones. Environment and proper 'training' have far greater influence than heredity. J consider a weak heredity a very Blight handicap if intelligence is used in "training the child.—Mrs Harry Hastings. Was any intelligent man, in possession of his senses and married to the woman of his choice, ever known to have entertained a feeling other than of ordinary human friendliness toward the rejected suitors of his wife, or even toward those whom I.' knows or suspects that she may once havi loved, or thought .she loved, as much u. she now does him ? On the contrary, doe; not such a knowledge have a tendency, ii tho average case, of making for a greatei mutual respect and liking, providing the circumstances of temperament and opportunity are favorable?— Anon. If the college woman remains unmarried it is usually from choice, and who shall say that a more desirable state of affairs does not i-xist where girls are most careful in their choice of husbands? Ninetenths of the domestic misery existing today is due to thoughtless marriages, and I welcome anything that will cause our girls to pause and consider well before they take the step to matrimony. If higher education will bring about this desirable end, by all means let us educate our girls to the'top notch. —Arietta Burroughs. Remember that to travel away from ourselves is more important to each of us than to travel away from our homes. Go as far away from yourselves as you can this summer. Go into Nature's paths, or into some new thought-world. If you cannot go away to the sea, at least go there m thought; read about it, and find out about it, and learn to know it better. If you cannot get away to the. mountains, visit them in thought, visit them with such a writer as Ruskin, and be refreshed by their loveliness. —Alice Preston.