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public acts that support it in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Texas, and it is well that the degree of truth it contains be recognized. The Macon _Telegraph_ finds a reason for the conditions thus described. The _Telegraph_ feels disposed to remark in this connection that for three-quarters of a century there has been entirely too much boasting about Southern "gentlemen" and Southern "chivalry." A gentleman does not call attention to his own virtues, and neither should a section through its orators and newspapers boast incessantly of its superiority to the rest of the world in its treatment of women. The result of it all has been that too many Southern youth have imagined that they had nothing to learn, and too many Southern men have regarded themselves as gentlemen and supposed that they were brimming over with "chivalry" when nothing of the sort was true. And there is another side to this question which should be mentioned in justice to all concerned. In our day respectable women are by no means all of the class described as the saintly angels of the home, who rouse all the chivalrous instincts of a gentleman, whether he be a resident of South Carolina, South Dakota, or Kamchatka. In our day women are facing men as competitors in business and in the professions. The modern woman of the advanced type refuses to be longer regarded as a gentler and saintlier type of humanity, who must be petted, reverenced, and protected. She prefers to renounce her former superiority of a certain kind for an equality which essentially involves a different plane of communication. That all this foreshadows a certain modification of the old-time approved relations between the sexes is as obvious as it is inevitable. WHAT WE ARE DOING TO THE RED MAN. Recent Abolishment of Tribal Rule in Indian Territory Will Have Powerful Effect for Good or Ill. Are we all to be Indians? There are ethnologists who say that in successive generations the features of Americans are gradually succumbing to the persistent influence of their climatic environment; that a few centuries will see us a race, high-cheek-boned, Roman-nosed. Frederick R. Burton touches the question in the London _Sphere_. He says: As I have studied the Indian in the field I have been interested in speculating--
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