And Getting into Print een patel ta°tas algnity The oftcacy of advertising has Become more than tru by-word. "But when ax English journal dereribed at feng! th, the other day, that the reason why modern woman munch in evidence was due entirely to her ability at self ment, we flaunted the red badge of argument.
Accepting a position on the ptint-Page cannot be so slightingly Mescribed as velt-advertising, we hastened to the defence. Relin-Quishing the former acute distrust held by the Indies of another genbration against well-meaning news gatkevers was merely a sign of Growth, we countered, No Victorian quivers of indignation now shake the facial register when mention of al "lady extends beyond the frock she Mears, and. far from—self-advertising, why should not she learn enter print gracefully, in the game way' that formerly she was taught to enter a dra She knows that identified with movements, lecture halls, and with other of ths genson's activities besides the largest ball of the season, without loss of prestige, This is due to the power fof the press which has sponsored hor sudden emergence into the activities culminating in newspaper!
Tracing back far enough one can find that every age had its women Who stood alone. But it took a modern ngo to develop women who can stand together in print Permanent Wave, philanthropic movements und professions—the sign Sof organization rather than sol? secking publicity. Spasmodie instances of the lone feminine figures who have left their mark in history carry always certain attributes. Without exception they belonged to the sainted group, or ts the slightly shady in spots or to the category escribed as "very, maseutine." 1 The church's calendar of enints holds a gentle profusion of the first, and in the second reside all those piquant ladies who exercise certain charm over succeeding generations despite the ships they launched to devastating battle, or the knightly hearts they crushed beneath their wiles or the contemporaries whom they shocked. The masculine type, if barber's statistics cane accepted, does not confine herself to the Queen Elizabeths or the George Sands of history. She also. threatens to destroy the ideals of the present age, according to the occasional pessimists, But_ if the women of the past came into print through channels of sainthood, or sirenhood, or through circumstances which lent them dominating personalities the modern woman uses different tactics. She organizes clubs and eliminates. the disadvantage of standing entirely alone, having eumpany in print and projects. In clubs she finds that, her individuality can be submerged into the whole without attentua. tion.
In company with others of her she gets into print, less be-of innate propensities toward ty, than through the exhi comes of doing things, and not having to do them all alone, It is an old principle that a China pony goes better in company with others and that a museum to be thoroughly enjoyed must be shared. In the same way why cannot it be said that organization has brought the modern woman into print saved her the use of precarious past} methods in attracting public attention to hreself—Jill O'Lantern,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.