The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
"WOman I'm Transition"


ton Transcript of book by Miss Annette M. B.
Meakin bearing the above title book of travel:
The author begins, as is WISE in her first chapter,
by describing "girhood in many lands, and usually
from personal observation The young girl OF the
upper middle Glass; she tells u.s. especially if lives
in Partisan Paris is impatiently throwing off the
restraint that only few years ago was borne by her
sisters with timd submission and accepted as mat
ter of course; she has even begun to walk out alone
X 1t is easy to predict that IN her case the
marriage de CONVEYANCE is doomed. The German
girls horizon is widening and she travels much more
than she did Who has not met her IN Italy with
her kodak But she rarely travels without escort
"The daughters of the best families in Finland
Joy all the freedom of which American girls can
boast" "In Sweden as in Germany, the young
girl who has reached manageable age without be-
coming emancipated is sent to act as lady-hep in the
home of some relative friend IN order that she
may fit herself for the duties of married woman"
"The personality of the Norwegian girl is far more
marked than that of her Swedish sister, and her
independence has something masculine about it. In
Switzerland young girl is less bound by prejudice
than most European girls and in this she approaches
nearest to the Norwegian" In Denmark 1T has re-
Gently become fashionable for Danish girls to take
a year at the university" although her companions
warn her with mo will dance with you if you
get a university degree You will have to sit out all
the Dances" And so on to Egypt and Constantinople
where girls of the highest families beginning
to be educated according to European methods" and
it does not Interfere with their marriage This change
is also being brought about through the labors of
Tartar women in Russia. The Sart women of
Central ASIA the most secluded of all women under
the sum- actually beginning to travel, and the
year 1908 special compartments reserved for
them in the Russian carriages the Transcaspian
railway"
The flavor of varied travel through
every succeeding chapter thus the very second chap
ter opens with a lively sketch of party of Japanese
ladies who came board the steamer which the
author left Yokohama to bid farewell to the young
Japanese wife of an American traveller.
What inference is to be drawn, for instance,
from this PASSAGE 81 have travelled lake
steamer with party of Swiss Sunday school children
from of the most beautiful districts who
going their annual summer treat; not one of
them had the face of a child there was express
sionless, careworn look every little face and it
made me sad to look at them What had the
glorious mountain air and the exquisite scenery been
to these little ones? They not children, but
little old and women wearied with the cares
of life" What conceivable festival of American
children, white black or even red could be matched
with pathetic group like that? Again, author
points out that in England there is resigned
hopeessness about the lives of the country poor
which is quite painful in its way as that of the
cities, and ends by quoting friend who from
the Farce Islands in 1906 speaking of the women:
They all very religious, but it is the resignation
of religion which seems most to appeal to them"