Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-07

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Special Correspondence OF The Star
PARIS. January %, 1900.
INSTEAD OF tile
ED howlings OF tie
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1TIIk suffragettes being
AhNh heard In the land
N MHH III N of France, their
Nh nYt ~ place is very salts
TRH Ia factorily filed by
MI tV8 NJ literary women OF
NhYaH ~ certain cult.
S1iNJ/ Parisians. however.
Sm00s see little OF the pen
work of these pre-
tenders. who make up in tongue execu-
ton what they lack in gray matter. Re
Gently here at the gay capital these
called learned women held a noisy meet
ing. the minutes OF which record chat
steps are TO be taken to erect I, statue 10
Nine. de Stael" We all know that 1t is
Frenchwoman i'll bronze, marble or any
other material. There is no doubt as to
Nine. de Stacl'S intelligence, but even her
greatest admirers would hardly claim for
her beauty as a birthright. Consequently
a memory of her wit and learning is more
to be priced than the opportunity of look
ing at a statue portraying her dcarth of
physical charm.
AS the cost of the statue TO Nine. &c
Stael will be great and the money to
be raised entirely among women inter-
ested in the movement, there is little
cause for anxiety that the scheme will
materiaiiZe- The object of these lite tary
women is doubtless to bring themselves
into public notice.
Appearing at an opportune mon ent
when the new woman in all her phases IS
being discussed, comes the recent book
nf DR.. Reich. Women Through the
Ages. And, judging from the wild
versations hears in salons and from
English and American platforms. it is
obvious that many earnest supporters of
the woman question are under the i'm
preston that they are struggling for the
first time in the history OF the world for
the emancipation of their sex. DIR.
Reich's book will speedily dspel any such
Illusion.
The learned gentleman tells us that
we are participating today followed the
heroic age of Homer. Restlessness and
movement one reads, are characteristic
of these times, and the home loses it's
FORMER attractions. natural conse-
uuence of this is change in the position
and treatment of women Marriage no
longer has its intimate character. The
wife bringing dowry becomes more of
political institution The poets. too. of
the time, II seems, criticised women Sc
Nerely and adopted tone of increas sing
bitterness. The result was these women
refused to be intellectually eClipSed, and
there arose band of poeteSSes who ri
vailed IN fame their contemporaries of
the opposite sex. Unfortunately we are
the genius of SapphO or of Aspasia led
To any uplifting of the sex. And so on
through the history of women we are
conscious OF the limitation which seems
10 impede her progress on every side
The world in general may not have gone
ahead as much as many of us like to
imagine but. at any rate the impress
sion one receives from the history of man
is that of action. On the other hand
the impression one gets from the history
of women is that of words
The many delightful touches Of h,lnor
one finds in this book are equaled only
ny the interesting amount of information
~ contains. An amusing incident apropos
of marriage is told of Baron Garin, who
In the days of the renaissance rode up TO
the castle of Names. sauting the lord
and proclaimins that his mission was the