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caused deep sleep to fall upon Adam,
and he slept; and He took one of his
ribs and closed up the flesh instead
thereof. And the rib which the Lord
God had taken from man, made he a
woman and brought her to Adam"
The time of this marvel of creation,
with its sequence of succeeding ages
and influences, remains to this day
source of dispute, along with other
minor phases of the event. Funda-
mentalists in type on the one hand.
scientists in training and outlook on
the other. refuse to come together on
this point and on many another.
Slight concerns, these. Non essen
tials, really, before the overlapping fact
that Eve arrived. That Adams rib
took on individual flesh and blood. as
sumed physical and mental organiZa-
ton, became through the schooling OF
Adam so much of feature in the
world that, quite apart from her bio
logical Importance, the Eve Of that day
of creation has multiplied nightly, has
waxed enormously in potentiality and
active power throughout the earth.
1t is the modern Eve, so vigorous In
every phase of common life, upon
whom Mary Day VIM turns a scru-
tinizing eye and upon whom she sets
a deeply penetrating mind.
the war and the psychoanalysts, all
working unconsciously toward q COM
mon end and all working most eff
fectively in the fluid element Of Ameri-
can life, have produced that colorful
phenomenon, the American woman"
Merely Lucrative agencies, these four.
Without doubt, the supreme goal
secret or open--of every woman since
Eve has been freedom. Some little
tNn Lot al rs.
often, the consuming passion for COM
pleta and final emancipation. Quite
natural too. To want his rib back,
the one taken from him in his sleep,
must certainly have been an instinct
in Adam This not possible, the next
need was for him to hold it close to
himself, close as his own skin. And
this physiological instinct became
spiritual guide and social custom.
With the growth of this habit toward
recovery of himself as a whole. in
Vulnerable restrictions and hateful in
hibitionS were imposed upon Eve, that
woman raped from his own side. Now
Eve, being of the actual substance of
Adams body, must have possessed some
Lpodicum at least of his noble male pas
sion for self-possession, independence,
freedom. And 50, from causes the most
natural struggle was set up that has
beef going on since the strange oneness
of Adam and Eve was brought about.
This writer's very intelligent concern
however! is with the woman of the
present day, with the modern Eve de-
rived straight from Eden.
Primarily, since this is above all else
business era, the study concerns
itself chiefly with the effect of woman
as whole, upon the time, and with
the effect Of woman as a partaker in
the industrial life.
But before this a glance is given to
the period lying in between the current
hustling day and the ladylike Victorian
era. There gathered is host Of women
who as mere inheritors of wealth are
in America today holding well toward
half of the individual resources and
savings Of the country. BY will, by in
Surance provisions. by court alimonies
in divorce proceedings. and so on, such
accumulations have been made Now
and then these safely protected women
chtrp little to the effect that women
and men should have exactly equal
rights Would you under warrantine
circumstances have a woman pay all
mony?" Certainly not" Would you
agree to abandonment of the widows
DOVER right?" We'll, l should say not. "
However, it is with the young and
her typewriter and her freedom and
her buccaneering soul, that this investi-
CATION has chiefly to do. And it is an
investigation of high order. Useful In
purpose. comprehensive, important in
its lines of pursuit, analytically sound
restained in conclusions.
The great point in the case of this
lmmemorial Eve is that she went into
business and liked it. To stay there
became her prime ambition. Tenure
OF Office depended upon certain essen
tials. Business efficiency, pleasing in
ways OF speech, ready in intuitiye under
standing, tactful, unobtrusiye. Another
part, just as essential, was that she be
an attractive Office fixture. Something
clean and rosy and sweet-smelling and
well dressed Long past the expert
mental stage the success of the expert
ment is marvel Think of it! Moth
ing but typewriter, a course of BUSH
ness training spelling
composition, tipping, pleasing per-
sonallty, good sense, level head-and
there she is, the triumphant modern
Eve.
There are, besides. armies of women
IN Independent business, in politics. in
authorship, in journalism, in art-in
every branch of public life. 1t is with
these that Mary Day VIM concerns
herseH In many short skstch of ex-
pertinent, success, failure-on the UPS
ana downs that BEST men in like CIR
cumstance. A most arresting fea ture
OF this survey is the enormous extent to
which business-the great game of buy
ing and selling its paramount activity
lis shaped and circumstanc-d to III
the desires, the needs, the tastes OF
WCmankind. The great bulk of ex-
ORANGE hctsTnoHa 4 - 4.
Is exercised to provide the wherewithal
OF the female for her trems ndous at
tack upon the citadel of male pre-
cminence in the business world. Walk
the business street of any town. Notice
that its shops are given over in large
majority to the needs and desires of
women Cosmetics alone have made
huge fortunes. Beauty parlorS jostle
one another on every street. Dress
shops and shoe stores appear to think
that men have pretty much disap-
peared from the face of the earth. Are
these women mere Cleopatras over
again-new editions of Helen of Troy?
Not at all. Very astute young parsons,
instead, not inclined to bury a scrap
even of the very least of their talents,
The crusade for culture makes a
most interesting bit Of general school
ing in this wholly absorbing study A
sketch of history traces the homely rise
of the Chautauqua lecture course and
similar outreachings for knowledge on
the part of dissatisfied women. All OVER
the country clubs of diverse purpose,
but united in the design to provide OPP
portunity to women who have wakened
to the joys of knowing things to the
pleasure of pursuing art in sculpture,
painting, music, poetry. The whole
country is individually keen to its own
brain. to the pleasure of studying, of
learning. A most interesting and sig
niflcant, chapter is headed THE Bridge
Epidemic" Read that on your own &C.
count. 1t will give a fine return. No
home, no family in this accounting?
oh, yes, but just now, and right here,
these are not in need of further care
and anxiety.