The freedom-loving girl of to-day, who can enjoy a walk by herself without losing her reputation, who. can ride down the street on her "bike" without being hooted at, who can playa mixed double at tennis without being compelled by publi opinion to marry her partner, who cav, i short, load a human creature's life, and not that a lapdog led about at the end of a string, might pause to think what she owes to the "unsexed creatures" who fought her battle for her fifty years Can the working woman of to-day, who may earn her own living, if she. wi without loss of the elementary rights of womanhood, think of the bachelor girl of a short generation ago without admiration of her pluck? There.wore ladies in those days too "unwomanly" to remain helpless burdens on overworked fathers and mothers, too "unsexed" to marry the first man that came along for the sake of their bread and, butter. They fought their way into journalism, into the office, into the shop. The reformer not always the pleasantest man to invito, to a tea-party. Maybe these women who wont forward with the flag were. not the most charming of their sex. The " Dora Copper field" type will for some time, remain the young man's ideal, the model the young git! puts before herself.. Myself, I think Dora Copperfield charming, but a world of Dora Copperfields 'The working woman is' new dovelopment in sdcidlogy. She'has many lessons: to learn, but one has hopes of her.
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