The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-07

El1111zz1111a1z1zs s heavens sake be as much woman a you wish,9 said Karenin "VVhen ask you to unspecialize I am thinking not of the abolition of sex, but the abolition of the irksome, restrscting. obstructive otsession with sex It may be true that sex made society, that the first society was the sex cenented family, the first state eonfederacy Of blood relations, the first laws sexual taboos. Up. to within a few gears of us the chief interest and motive Of an ordinary man was to keep and rule a woman and her children. and the chief concern of a woman was to get a man to do that. That was the drama, that was life. And the jealousy of these demands was the master motive in the world. All that may have been necessary, but it is necessary no long CT. All that has changed and changes still very swiftly. Your future, Ra- cheI, as women, is a diminishing fu- ture.'
 ..Karenin.p asked Rachel. ''do you mean that women are to become men?H
 .'Men and women nave tp become human beings. "
 You would abolish women9 But Karen1n, listen! There is more than sex in tl.4s. Apart from sex we are different from you. We take ID life differently. Forget we are-females. Karenin, and still we are a different sort Of human being with different use. In some things we are amazing ly secondary. Here am I in this place because of my trick of management and Edith is here because of her pa tient, subtle hands That does not alter the fact that nearly the whole body of science is man made; that does not alter the fact that men do so pre- domfnatingly make history, that you could nearly write complete history of the world without mentioning 2 V7o- mans name. And. on the other hand, we have a gift of devotion Of inspira ton, a distinctive power for truly lov- ing beautiful things, a care for lire and peculiar, keen, close eye for be- havfor You know men are blind be- side us in these last matters You know they are restless-and htful. We have steadfastness We may never draw the broad outlines nor discover the new paths, but in the future isn't there a confirming and sustaining and supplying role for us? As important l perhaps. a5 yours {? Equally important We hold the world up, Karenlns though you may have raised it. 2,
 seYou know very well, Rachel, that I believe as you believe. I anu not think l ing of the abolition of woman. But I do went to abolish the woman whose support is Jealousy and whose gift I possession. I want to abolish the Egc- man who can be won as a prize OF locked up as delicious treasure. And away down there the heroine flares like divinity
 "In America, said Edwards. smen are lighting duels over the praises or women and hcSding tournaments be- fore queens of Beauty"
 teI saw a beautiful girl in lahore, said Kahn 'sShe sat under golden 1 canopy like a goddess, and three dne men. armed and dressed like the an- cfent paintings, sat on steps below her to. show their devotion, and they want cd only Aer permission to light fo1 her''
 ..That is the mems doings,g said Edith Haydon.
 s4There is nc evil between men and women that is not common evil said Karenin. .'It is you poets, Kahn with your love songs which turn the sweet fellowship of comrades into thia woman centered excitement BUt there is something in women in many 1 women, which responds to these provo cations They succunab to a Ieculiarly l self cultivat1ng egotis1n- They becoms the subjects of their own artistry, They develop and elaborate themselvel as scarcely any man would ever do They look for golden canOpies. And even when they seem to react against l that they may do it still. have been 1 reading in the old papers Of the move l ments to eEnancipate woraen that Vzers going on before the discovery of atomic force. These things, which began NTitd a desire to escape from the H1nitsttionl l and servituda of sex, ended in an in' famed assertion of sex, and women I more heroines than ever. Helen ol Holloway was at last as big nuisance in her way as Helen of Troy, and co long as you think of yourselves as Wo' men''-he held out q finger at Raehe
 and smiled gently 'instead of think I ing of yourselves as intelligent beings you will be in danger of-Eelan1sua. To think of yourselves as women ia ta think of yourselves in relation to men
 You can't escape that eonsequance
 You have to learn to think of your
 selyes-for our sakes and your own
 sakes-in relation to the sun and stars, l You have to cease to be our adventure I Rachel, and come with us upon oun ass
 ventures.s
 He waved his hand toward the darA
 sky above the mountain crests.
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