e, I
admit, against Nature, which made her different from man, with duties
different, physically and otherwise, almost always to her disadvantage.
The world exists and marches on through love. I pity from the bottom of
my heart the good woman who is not to know the whispers of love of a
good husband or the caresses of little children, but I am not prepared
to see life become a burden for her sake.

There is no possibility of denying or ignoring the fact. The purpose,
the _raison d'etre_, of woman is to be a mother, as the _raison d'etre_
of a fruit-tree is to bear fruit. And woe to the next generations, for
everybody knows that _only_ the children of quiet and reposed women are
healthy and intelligent.

The woman question will only be solved by the partnership in life of
man and wife, as it exists in France, where, thank God! the New Woman
is unknown; by the equality of the sexes, but each with different,
well-defined duties to perform.

The New Woman is not to be found outside of Great Britain, where woman
is her husband's inferior, and of the United States, where she is his
superior.

The woman who devotes a good deal of her time to the management of
public affairs is a woman who is not required to devote much of it to
private ones.

Show me a woman of forty.

Look on this picture: Eyes bright, beaming with joy and happiness,
complexion clear, rosy, plump, not a wrinkle, mouth smiling. See her
lips bearing the imprint of holy kisses, and her neck the mark of her
little children's arms. She has no grievance. Ask her to join the New
Woman army. 'No, thanks,' she will say, with a smile of pity; 'the old
style is good enough for me.'

And on this: Thin, sallow complexion, eyes without lustre, wrinkled,
mouth sulky, haughty, the disgust of life written on every feature.
That woman will join the ranks of every organization which aims at
taking the cup of love away from the lips of every happy being.

But all this might take the shape of a long digression. Let us see how
some American women devote part of the time which they are not probably
wanted to devote at home.

I think that of all the grand fads indulged in by some women in
America, the palm should be given to the compulsory water-drinking
work. That is a colossal illustration of what women can do when left
entirely to their own resources.

Now I will lay down as a sort of principle that the 'temperance' woman
and the teetotaler are not to be found in re