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"Thc Unrcs. of women

"Thc Unrest of Women"
BY Edward Sanford Martin. ID. APP
pleton X Co. 81 net.
Within the space of 146 broadly mar
gined pages of 4 l2mo volume. MIR.
Martin. author of The Luxury of Chill
drcn." 'Win6falls OF Observation" and
The Reflections of n Beginning Illus
band" has set out views upon the
Votes for Women" movement sutii-
ciently incendiary in their nature mod
erately expressed though they are to
justify suggestion to the firm OF -.
Appleton X Co that IL guard well it's
London branch from the just indigna-
ton of the -irsonettes OF England.
This man. seeking to explain. TO ac-
count for, the widely prevalent fcmi-
nine unrest, ventures the proposition
that il is owing not only to the changed
conditions of modern life in regard to
women in particular. but to the fact
that II is only n part OF q great UNI
rest that is affecting all the world.
that puts the Young Turks in charge
OF Turkey, starts n republic in China,
and gives power to AsGuith and lloyd
George in England, and that put a
third party into our politics last sum
mer."
for the suffrage is only one form in
which this unrest * revealed. and
tremendously observes that mot only
are the suffraEiStS restless themselves.
but they also force disturbance on the
women. apparently Il large majority
who have found their vocation in life
and are fairly satisfied with ii. or else
see no cure in suffrage for what they
don't like. and fear its drawbacks more
than they anticipate it's benefits"
The views OF Miss Adams upon the
subject he discusses most respectfully
evidently because of the profound re-
spect with which he views Miss
Adams. and he also attempts to eX
anime the desires and demands ex
pressed by Miss Thomas. president of
Bryn Mawr, the arguments advanced
by Mrs rankhurst and Miss Milholland.
and what he describes MS the agitation
OF Mrs Belmont"
From the standpoint of the suf-
fraRists. the author presents only Il
series OF masculine objections TO the
forwarding of great cause. though he
carefully assumes a judicial attitudc/
And from that same standpoint. doubt
less some of his observations are mere
~ ribald.
For example. tho frivolity of this:
Most women prefer. other things being
equal government by men TO govern
ment BY women II is man, not
woman that is Indispensable To wo-
man. and mt a pinch she Will usually
cloave TO her own as against her like
or again. the utter inappropriatcncss
not 10 say malappropriatencSs. of his
Hing ut universal sistcrhood in a jccr-
Ing statement that one of the causes
of the uuattractivcness of domestic
service to girls lies in the fact that
women do not like to work for wo-
men.
Yet again. why should he find amuse-
ncnt in the story that the raising of
salaries OF women teachers in the pub
lie schools of New York has resulted
in marriagc wave among them?
Where lies the humor in such a gibc
as this: politics don't make invariably
for righteousness but they make con
sidcrably for entertainment. and the
argument that women are entitled TO
their share of that is better than most
of the sunragists' arguments?
In his final chapter, after having dis
cussed the cause, the ills and the
nostrums. MIR Martin comes To the
cure He believes that, whether wo-
mems votes would greatly help or not
the Improvement OF the conditions of
life. and with them the condition Of
women. is the immediate aim and effort
Of contemporary politics everywhere.
But, after all. ne SAYS that the fnal
agent in pacifying human life and
making people content TO live ii is re-
ligion.
The great asset Of our civiliza
ton is the mind oc Christ.
That mind penetrated all the pcrplc%i-
ties OF human relations ana solved the
problem OF life in all its phases. 1t is
on the spirit of Christ. working
through individuals and shaping and
Inspiring our politics that we must
count TO straiEhtcn out the tanEles in
our affairs"
And there he leaves the question,
confident that it will bc solved.