The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-07
EROA OTHER PENS
WOMEN WITH TWO SOULS.

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At last science has thrown a great
light upon that deepest of mysteries
the way of a woman. After solving
most of the other riddles of life the
browning victory OF psychothera-
peutics is the discovery that women.
have two. souls, perhaps more We
have the word of President G. Stanley
Hall, of Clark university, that there
isn't a bit of doubt about it, and 1t is
upon the hypothesis that he accounts
her erratic methods of jumping at
conclusions and her Intuition
Wisely President Hall observes:
woman is much more susceptible
than man. There is good reason for
this We know that she has two or
more souls. She may love and hate at
the same time and the same person.
She may say and think that she is sick
or we'll when the reverse is really true.
1t simply means that one soul is in the
ascendancy. These two souls may be
absolute strangers to each other, but
they certainly exist. We have proved
it beyond the shadow of a doubt"
Only little less interesting than the
fact itself would be an explanation Of
the method by which President Hall
found it out. That a woman's PSYCHE
cal equipment Is an opalescent gem Of
ever-changing and glorious radiation
all men are aware. Until now, how
ever, no one has been able to account
for those mysterious and sudden
flashes of alternate laughter and tears,
love and hatred, melancholy and Ella
ton which characterize her demeanor.
We now realize that these manifesto
tions Of opposite emotions are the re-
suit of a conflict of souls. When the
feminine mind is normal the souls are
nicely balanced, but once the eQuilli-
brium is disturbed a veritab1e battle of
passions ensues as the souls sway and
struggle for mastery. Fortunate the
| man who enlists the sympathies Of one
of his loved ones souls, but twice or
more fortunate is he If he win her
| whole observation-disclosures City Jour
nal.
AMERICAN QUEENS.
If the American woman occupies a
| position where, as II by right, she ac-
cepts the homage of her subjects-the
| entire male population-it is posi-
| ton that she has won by right, and
which, evidently. she intends to
| strengthen rather than to weaken.
| Year by year she is forging to the
/ front, and is becoming more of a fac
1 tor, not alone in the social. but in the
| Industrial and commercial life of the
| country. For it Is not mere sentiment
that gives the American woman a
place in the forefront of American
| progress. AS wage-earners and pro-
| viders they have won place that
| forces their masculine competitors to
regard them with respect and admira-
| ton, and which makes 1t clear that no
mere kingdom of domesticity will sat
| isfy their desire to rule.
The census bureau reports on the
| various avocations of life. and it finds
| that there are 800 of these, and in all
of them, except nine, women fill places
| worthi1y. There seems to be no bound
to the measure of their activities; they
i practice medicine; they plan the con-
| struction of buildings; they are admit
ted to the bar and practice law; in the
realms of chemistry they have made
1 discoveries denied to man; in the arts
and sciences they hold honorable rec
ords-and the end is not yet. So far
has the tendency of independence
gone today in the United States thai
there are in round figures 100000
| women that earn their own living
One-half Of the single women or this
country are self-supporting. 1t Is one
of the signs Of the times, this COM
petition of women in the field with
men, and it cannet= be regarded as 9
bad sign. There is mighty little senti-
ment in the employment of women; II
they get jobs that have been held by
| men. 1t is.Vn nearly every instance
solely because they do the work better
J than men. are more steady and more
to be relied upon.-Washington Her
.