AMERICAN WOMEN.
Nothing in the United States struck me more than the fact tfyatthe remarkable
intellectual progress of that country Js very largely due to the efforts of American, women, who edit many of the most powerful- magazines ..and newspapers, take part in the discussibiii of ;ev^|s^Jp.' tion of public interest, . : &n^e&ip\a&gitjt ( * important influence upon, the^'growln and tendencies of literature and art. . Indeed, the women of America are the one class in the community 4 that enjoys -- that leisure which is so necessary -fd| v culture. The men are, as a rule, so' absorbed in business, that the task of bringing some element of form into the chaps 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^thal ,the dress of the i two'aexes will' be'til§Hra*:; ated, as similarity ,of costume' always follows similarity of pursuits.— Oscar Wilde,' in The Woman's. WdricU v .. v .v.'? „
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 10, Issue 754, 9 March 1888, Page 2
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174AMERICAN WOMEN. Mataura Ensign, Volume 10, Issue 754, 9 March 1888, Page 2
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