terature, to the improvement
of their brilliant native intellect; some spend it in frivolities; some
indulge in all the fads of Anglo-Saxon life.

The women of good society in America are what they are everywhere
else--satisfied with their lot, which consists in being the adored
goddesses of refined households; but there exists in that country among
the middle--perhaps, what I should call in European parlance, lower
middle--classes, restless, bumptious, ever-poking-their-noses-everywhere
women, who are slowly, but surely and safely, transforming that great
land of liberty into a land of petty, fussy tyranny, and trying--often
with complete success--to impose on the community fads of every shape
and form.

If there is one country in the world where the women appear, in the
eyes of the foreign visitor, to enjoy all manner of privileges and to
have the men in leading-strings, that country is America. You would
imagine, therefore, that America should be the last country where the
New Woman was to be found airing her grievances. Yet she is flourishing
throughout the length and breadth of that huge continent. She is petted
by her husband, the most devoted and hardworking of husbands in the
world; she is literally covered with precious stones by him; she is
allowed to wear hats that would 'fetch' Paris in carnival time or start
a panic at a Corpus Christi procession in Paris or a Lord Mayor's Show
in London; she is the superior of her husband in education and almost
in every respect; she is surrounded by the most numerous and delicate
attentions, yet she is not satisfied.

The Anglo-Saxon New Woman is the most ridiculous production of modern
times, and destined to be the most ghastly failure of the century. She
is _par excellence_ the woman with a grievance, and self-labelled the
greatest nuisance of modern society. The New Woman wants to retain all
the privileges of her sex, and secure besides all those of man; she
wants to be a man and to remain a woman. She will fail to become a man,
but she may succeed in ceasing to be a woman.

And now, where is that New Woman to be found? Put together a hundred
women, intelligent and of good society; take out the beautiful ones;
then take out the married ones who are loved by their husbands and
their children, and kindly seek the New Woman among what is left--ugly
women, old maids, and disappointed and neglected wives.

Woman has no grievance against man. Her only grievance should b