The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-20

There *. ha says. not cause for too much
alarm:
III. eternal feminine ~ ~ angling IN shape
ana e~srncc the woman Of politics viii he
different from the home woman. hut abe
VIII remain a Woman all the same. she " Ill
b" unable 10 do without those qualities
which make her charm she " III b~ compelled
Ia retain them because love has To remain
triumphant ana IN. race must continue
After rhiA Introduce ion NJ Finot faces
the new woman boldly and speaks his
mind ahou, her. doing her justice
Woman's weakness and her instinct OF
prevarication were her chief Characteris-
tics in the past Like all weak and OPP
pressed beings she had TO conceal or dis
gu-e her thoughts and To he cunning
That was her only arm against man and
strength All this has changed Woman
has become more and more sincere as
she has assembled the social sCsile
Far from hVpo"riil,ally enduring her in
f-rinritv. she openly claims her rights She
lifts her head and even makes her master
bend his She has entered many careers
which were the exclusive domain Of man
A. doctor. lawyer. CLERK. writer. Journalist.
she reveals solid qualities which command
the respect and IN. fear of man
WIN WOtudh OF NtsttTuAS. now
sver. has disappeared several Old World
notions. that OF beauty above all others.
says NJ. Finot. She u not lers beAut iful.
she has different beauty. And this fact
u So general that it has passed unnotic-d. :
for things that affect all men are seldom
perceived by them
A. for the seriousness Of the evolution
the writer has no doubt Of that. Moth
ing h. asserts. will stop the progress
Of woman: she is urged on by the am
conauerabIe desire to enlarge her life
and increase her happiness
Again women are not loved for the
same reasons they were thinks N Finot.
Also mans ideal has not the same age.
longevity is on the increase and the age for
loving and being loved is not what it was
Balzac called a man OF ~ an old man.
and fifty years before Balzac great
French student of sociology wrote in a
fearful style Of the sad fate OF girls who
have not found . husband before they
are IL Eighteen in those days was the
critical age. and the unfortunate Young
lady who passed il without having found
a mate babe fair TO remain single all
her life
Nowedays.- writes VI. Finot. the
woman Of thirty ,considered the ideal
in every way for the last twenty years
or sol has been replaced by the woman Of
forty. The heroincs OF all our plays
and novels are about that age
Men marry much later than in tho pact
and they look for a well beloved who 10
endowed with some much-experi-
ence OF life and has mature reason
The sweet turtle dove. shy and naive.
is being forsaken for women who know
more OF life. because they have suffered
more
Foreigners have ever been fond OF
making Jokes about the peculiarities Of
the English language. Frenchmen in
particular boast that their language. I'M
like ours. is spelled a. il is pronounced.
But they too have difficulties Of their own.
an amusing example Of which is given in
the -Semaine LItteraire" How should
the plural of the word -garCie- maIatie.
sick nurse. be written2 A society Of nurses
IN Paris wanted to know how in its ad-
vertlsements Il might reconcile good sense
with grammar The committee at first
wrote gar,ie- malad.s. thereby apparently
conforming 10 reason. IL perceived
however that the singular might imply
the existence 81 only one nurse in the
whole establishment. Then. sacrificing
logic 10 fact. II wrote gardes- malade
This solution present ad anot her difficult v,
for a punc'ilioua grammarian might