IS WODERN WOMAN A FAILURE?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 14 May 1907, Page 4

IS WODERN WOMAN A FAILURE?

-MAX'S OJUECTIO.YS MEUIS KLA'I

TKRY

CAI'NK (IF 1118 i-'EAKS.

"A woman may have maimers and no mind, or mind and no manors; but the

I nis remark was made by .Mrs. JJoutwood at the Women's Institute a! London lately, in the course of an address en the subject of "Js the modern woman a failure':"

"The epithet 'modern woman' is applied as a term of opprobrium." said Mrs Boutwood. "There is no rcawm why it should be, except the Anglo-Sa-xon's antipathy to adapt hiuisoif 10 ehange-, and because it is easier for him to 'label' than to comprehend. "The modern woman is not suuiotliim: new and monstrous. She is like Eve", only seen under modern conditio is! Women will become livin- realities, Mislead of pale, -distuned rollections ' "Man's objection to the modern woman is unite easy to understand and appreciate, lie divads the unknown.

"For centuries woman ;, : is bi-t-n tin; slave, ana man now suddenly sous tno race he lias so greatly wronged let 1„„. ;( . 'm society. Tlic cluck cannot be put I'lll'li. W OlUfll Will go f.,|. (ill; it will be upwards. The objection ;U i<l dislike of mt'ii lire really ii touching lint I civ. ".Man nee,| s t„ the full tll " ( , s V nii»a"tliv ami sacrilice of women, and he Jread"> lo lose it.

".Mill, it is clear that nam's ideals ir, changed, mill ihal he is suckin-r th. ideal wonnm. c

"A true woman, imbued ivith the modern spirit, can ilo exactly as she like., because sin. will never do anything in

".Man may consider modern women a failure, lint we are not crushed In- that, because oh,, day man will umlersatn.i and become our anient supporters."