New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-25
MODERN YOUNG WOMEN
High Praise of Them from a Mascu-
line Author-What Thea Endure.

Thu latest contribution to a much discussed
question Is 'aThe Young Woman In Modern Life
by Beverley Warner. d. d. Dodd, Mead & Cob
The author has rushed in where angels might well
have feared to tread and has Jared worse and
perhaps a little better than was to be expected
The young woman is in the way or receiving
more advice than the young man wnicn she con-
ceiyes to be q gratuitous attention. says Dr. war
ner; "she wonders that man. vain man. snould
be SO self-deceived to think that he knows any
thing about her at ALL above all that he seeks to
counsel her majesty as her mind. her heart, her
SOUL her habits or her thoughts
And then ne proceeds through two hundred pages
and nine chapters to do that very thing DISCUSS
ing the responsibilities influence. occupations.
amusements and matrimonial affairs OF the young
woman, with only masculine temerity-
flavor OF oldtims chivalry runs through Dr.
Warmers book which is somewhat attractive. Il
not exactly the quality TO be looked for In an I'm
partial critic OF the inexpicabls sex.
Man is a poor creature at his best, he says
but that woman is also poor creature he does not
appear to suspect. The young woman OF to-day he
believes to be the "fairest bloom OF earth and
time" He exalts her upon PEDESTAL and burns
unmeasured incense before her. Princes bow be-
fore nv lady" he says. Peasants are ennobled
by her smile The fairest neds or the beautiful Old
World take on new color as she sweeps over them.
Dull souls brighten in her presence. tired hearts
thrill with fresh impulse and beat more nopefuIIy
in the light OF her eyes. From the hour OF her
innocent babyhOOd, When lying on the mother =
BOSOM she appeals to the strongest and mightiest
by the compelling trust OF her baby stare until. In
the midday of her gracious womanhood. she turns
the world about her soft fingers she reigns-''
This glorious being DR.. Warner holds responsible
for very nearly everything that goes wrong in the
world and TO he gives the credit of the greater
part OF what goes right. She is to reform society
and the stage to check the seculari8ation Of sun
day. and even to safeguard the English language
against the inroads OF slang.
The woman's inspiration - over all We
creep or climb as we have been struck down or
Upon the common things of life she casts radi-
ance. and over its sordid cares and routine duties
she throws glory.
Yet Dr. Warner does know some things about
women: When we talk of the awful glory of her
youth" he says. her capacity for happiness. her
of the daily disadvantages of her sex and youth.
She is not her mistress. She Is under per-
petual orders to do this do that which she
cannot coordinate with her IDEAS OF life. The
word don't is constantly ringing in her ears,
with the mournful and monotOnOus insistence of a
her royal dover of wOmanhood lay her open 10
falls and bruises which men never know. And
through all the woman must smile and hold in
chains the tmpetuous tumult of her often outraged
sensibilities. where man would grOwl softly in
his beard and take himself of.
1.-THE young woman cannot take herself OF with
equal facility. She is often bound. as no
feels himself bound. to her environment She
is hemmed in by circumstances. Her cage may be
gilded her food and water of the best, her feath-
ers OF silver, and yet the cage is there. and she
is In it,