Handicaps and Possibilities Some weeks ago I took up the question of Woman's Sphere and endeavoured to show the changing attitude of woman particularly as a wife, and her enlarged opportunities under the new conception of that position. Now I wish to consider another important function of woman in the kome and its bearing upon her larger citizenship.
Max Eastman said in a speech at Poughkeepsie, New York, several years ago: "Women are mothers: men are not, When all psychic uiarvels and parlour nonsense are laid aside, that is the scientist's difference between men and women." While motherhood is perhaps not the sole raison d'étre of woman, it is her highest privilege as well as duty, and' the trend of modern thought has confirmed rather than weakened reverence for motherhood. Side by side with this recognition has grown a clear-of the mother's resies and opportunities.
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