The sun., 1909-05-02

to erroneous c6ndiins. Her soul has
been stined; 1t must expand In Svery
direction. The revolutionary process of
changing her external condition b COM
paratiyely easy: what 10 difhoult and
necessary lie the inner change Of thought
and Of desire.
THAT is why do not see what Suffrage
is going to do for woman. The making
and unmaking Of laws has not done aay-
thing for man: why should it help herf
| believe OF course II she wants IL that
she should have 1t, for there can be no
social system worth while where q man
takes 10 himself certain privileges and
refuses them 10 the woman; but fundA-
mentally believe 1t lie not vitality impor-
tant. except as everything 10 important
that helps a woman to think for herself
and to act for herself.
1T is really no more essential In the
proper scheme Of things than 10 her COO
nomio independence, which theorists
believe is going to settle the whole ques-
ton and answer all disputed points.
A Swedish woman, Ellen Key, has an
swered this question very well in pam
phlet entitled 'Misused Energies where
she claims that the Idea that woman
must enter the competitive field in an
economic sense and do the same work 40,
man il and always has been pernicious.
for woman does not bring and could
not bring the "a me amount Of energy
to her task, and. as she does not bring
compelled to compete with men when
she reaches the end Of her accomplish
ment shs IL a nervous wreck.
Il know from my own experience
that what Miss Key claims 10 the truth.
1t takes me back to the twelve years
when I was trained nurse.
Il took up a special course OF massage.
which studied In Vienna, and had a. my
clients here In New York Representatives
Of fourteen professions. women who were
competing in the field Of labor with men.
Every one OF these women was q nervous
wreck as the result Of the tremendous
waste Of energy.
sThe conclusion that Ellen Key has
drawn. that draw. II not that the woman
should 70 back to the kitchen. It msens
that she should work under conditions
where 1t does not matter how much the
can do but how we'll che can do her work
We live In an age OF quantity. not quaiity.
and the woman naturally suffers most
from that point OF view. -
.The wo man problem viii not be solved
% long as she has to suffer from that
narrow minded slave driving habit Of
thought. The pace that the man hak set
i1that Of brute force or muse ular vitality.
and the woman ID trying vsinly to keepup.
She can't do It. hold that she must
accomplish what she has to do through
her artistic sense. her intuitions. her
pysohio methods.
Modern life docs not demand that man
shall be fighter. Foroe required at
present IL not physical In its Manifesto ton,
and the really Ane mon. men whoAre doing
the great big things, who are carving our
statues, who are writing our books, our
poems painting pictures. even doing
enormous architectural work, are fine and
artistic and, they require the gentle enl
vironment OF the woman and the same
conditions 10 do their best work. They
have what ID oallSd the feminine In them.
Deprive them Of these essentials and you
do worse than XIII their work. you kill
their souls, an rary''Ua~--sS-AsA~
.Theodor Hertzks. the Austrian eco.
nornio writer. says that II 4 man bettnt
70 work when hk 70 % and works two houfs
ana forty minutes every dsy until b y
a hs win produce uhart tAAa b On ros.