THE WOMAN OF TO-DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2665, 10 August 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE WOMAN OF TO-DAY.

The womau who is of the world to-day must bo prewired to bo sill things in succession. She rnuat bo the careful housewife, the social loader, the religion.se, the scholar, the wit, the confidante—all in turn. She must compass at least a show of all learning; she must be in sympathy with all the branches of knowledge, and feeb'nir and thought ; she must attend to a hundred forms of life of the very existence of which her grandmothers woro ignorant. Whether she lias been wiso iu taking all this burden upon her it will hardly fall within the province the present generation to d'.eido. Whether the children mid grandchildren of these wonderful women will be the better or worse for tho extraordinary strain which iK put upon the mothers of the race, any man may speculate, hut no man can tell. Every womr.n might bo supposed to decide for herself how far (she will shuie this high-strung life! but as n matter of fact no human being is able to escape tho influence of his day and generation. We are pnrt of ii whole, and although a woman may to sotuo extent withdraw hf-rself from the current, in tho end she is forced to choose between being left a Ptpiniled waif on the shore of the stream and takinir her part of whatever the life of the tiino mav be.—Now York Star.