The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
AMEREAH HEA And WOMEN.
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~ ne-ts little eontact with American
life to percsive how she has pounced n
how outside business. she has mads " over
In her imaan. HE has meanwhlls her hours
N amasement NJ the aiss ~ the windfsll
shs cannot quits live without vonder O,
the strange creature by her alts who ls
beu. known her ~ having yisldsd VIVA,
she would have oiutched 90 the death.
But the~e are her hushed and shrouded
hours. The face she shows u that of I'M
vinhinR tribute 10 the matter % oourae,
The woman Ia two-thirds % the APP
parent life In AnaEca, which means that
she ia absolutely oil Of the social, and. ~
this Ia nowhere else the case. the occasion
Ia unique for seeing what such q situation
may make OF hes.
THE woman produced by a woman. made
society has quite o new story to tell Ito
which the world &C large has for the last
thirty yean In particular found iteelf lend
ing an attentive. at times even q charmed,
ear.
she has been, acooPdingly,a huge success
Of curiosity: she has at her best-and far
beyond any Oonsciousness and intention
Of her own-infnitely amused tbs nations.
Her manner Of embodying and represent
ing her sex has fairly made Of her q new
human c~onvenisncs, not unlike fifty othe re
OF a slightly different order. the stoves,
refrigerators. sewing machines, typewriters,
cash registers, that nave done 50 much for
the American name.
by which I am far from meaning that the
revelation has been of her utility as a domes-
tic drHdge; 1t has been much rather In
the ia ct hat the advanta ges attached
happily combined with the absence OF the
dra wbacks.
"The advanta ges, In the light Of almost
any old order, ha We always seemed inevi-
tlbly paid for by the dra wbacks; but here,
unmistak a blyi was a case IN which, AZ
enjoyed very n Early for nothing. It wa not
that she had had to 'look out for herself.
II was of the very essence OF. her position
not to be threatened or weylaid; but she
could develop her audacity on the basis Of
her security.
Thus she arrived, full blown, on the
general scene; the least criticised object,
In proportion to her importance, that had
ever adorned IL. 1t would take long to
say why her situation may affect the critic
himself as one OF the most touching on
record; he may merely note his perception
that she was TO have been after all but the
sport Of fate.
For why need she originally, he wonders,
have turned away with 80 light a heart
after watching the Man. the deep American
man, retire into his tent and let down the
fapP She had her paper from him; their
agreement signed and sealed. But under
some other sky, would she not have said:
@'This 10 too unnatural; there must be a
trap in it somewhere; 1t will, in the long run,
make a fool Of me-?
sThere ia an almost clear certainty that
the revulsion-the oonvulsion, ! am tempted
to say-must break out in Washington.
For here alone in the American world do
we catch the other set not observing the
agreement. Here Man socially exists. He
has discovered tina he can exist in other
| connections than that of the market.
1T would be awkward and gross to say
that man has dealt any conscious blow at
the monopoly Of his companion; or that her
he has here, in & degree, socially found
himself. Man is solidly, wildly present.
1.-THE omens are just now strikingly en-
HANGED by the accident Of the rare quality
of the male presence presiding at WASH
ington; and IL would be strange, certainly,
that this idea Of the re- oommittal to mas
| culine hands Of some share at least In the
interests of civilization, some part Of the
social property and social Office, should not,
from SO high an example, have received a
new impulse and q new conservation.
But 1t would appear inevitable to ask
whether the American woman has not
| gained such an advance in the amenities
| that her companion will never catch up
with her.
heritage, the man who could, originally, 80
inconoeivably, and for a mere mess Of pot
tage, il there ever was one, let 1t 60? /
think IL not merely fanoiful to say that some
dim, distressful interrogative sound OF
that sort frequently reached, In the WASH
ington air, the restless analyst"
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