The Denver Jewish news., 1922-12-20
Sermon on A. S. M.
Hutchinson's 5 Book
CONTINUED from Page One,

I there was a mother-a real. old-fash-
ioned mother. The author with fine
irony speaks of the passing of her
kind of ''lamentable specimen of her
Kind She was mother whose only
j interest in life was herr husband. her
/ children. her home. She belongs to
that Dark Age in which duty to 9th.
ers dominated the moral conduct and
| standards She only reached the
moral conduct and standards. She on
4 lv reached the threshold Of our en-
1 lightened age in which II and -
again is the dry. II is shouted by
every mouth. Duty to self is the first
old fashioned mother sacrifices the pos
4 s.bility of n career as a minat r >
4 painter. for her sick father. and as n
riother she is n slave in n parish that
pays $1,000 to its clergyman. A clergy
man trying 10 raise n family of six
on $1.00 GA year.
The modern woman has rendered an
| immortal service to womanhood by
raising, the dignity of women; by say
ing to the woman who is not married
that she may still receive splendid com
pensatious from life. This is n thing
that must he faced. Another thing Ia
whether society is what 1t ought TO
be when so many women must go ont
end compete with men. NV idea is
that fewer women should he compelled
to compete with men.
As the story goes ON Rosalie's re
volt grows. She will have her in
dependence. she will have her own of
flee. she will have her ow. income.
She follows her native gift for figures,
for business. She throws herself in
to her studies. She devours every
thing which can contribute to her de-
yclopmcnt in this line. She finds n
book in the old attic-Bagehots 'Ionf>
hard Street, She pores over it. Some
day she will be in Lombard Street
She becomes a great business woman,
eventually a banker. She is a genius.
She is spy who spies out the OPP
portunities for women.
1t is wonderful TO see how this free
dom and indivdualism gradually trans
forms and changes her, although it
does not destroy her real nature. If
it had destroyed her womanly soul
She would not have suffered so in
tensely. While she was influenced.
she wns not radically changed. We
see that size becomes more and more
narrow in herssympathy. We see how
She learns to treat sentiment with
contempt We see her watch with
approval the change in herself from
sensitive to sensible. Little by little
the womanliness in her becomes cor
roded. intellectually big. powerful in
achievement, she goes leaping from
position to position until she realizes
her ideal and becomes the most dis
oussed woman of her time. She lives
for her career. for her work. letting
nothing interfere 1t is true that she
Is warned by an old teacher. Keggo.
who gives her an insight into sex
psychology. She is told that to be "A
woman is dangerous. And why Is it
dangerous to be u woman? 1t is be-
back There are no return tickets
issued to women Whether she gives
herself to man. to drink, or TO
II career. she becomes absorbed. so
used up by it that she cannot prac-
tice detachment. and. therefore. size
must beware. Rosalie says that the
road for most women ends in a term
ipus, hut that she ij booked farther;
that she needs no return; she wants
none When Keggo asks her IL she
riage she says the idea is preposter-
Gus. She says she hates the whole
tribe of men. But, she does not know
herself. When great love enters her
life it sweeps away all her defens
and carries her along in an over
whelming flood. She compares her
habits tu "A battlefield. She surrend.
ers, and she argues quite correctly
| That after all if she is to live her
life fully and freely why should she
deprive neTSell VI loNt any iHoit IMAM
she would deprive herself of business.
Only she makes sure that she Will
carry her career along with her. Mar
riage is to be n partnership of abso-
Lutte equality. He is to have his work
she her career. A perfect equality,
not one dependent upon the other.
Even the legal formula is to be found
for that equality.
The man she loves is presented in
the book as n paragon of virtue. He
is marvel of loving kindness and
under the most trying circumstances
lie has perfect control. 1 am surpris-