The Archive · 1923

Our Highest Selves

And ladies to follow! The husband who has hesitated between a firm and manly. autocracy and a supine yielding ness only to wrangle midway will delight in ladies who will respond to his slightest wish, his unexpressed desires. His ego will expand under this flattering treatment, and freed from the irritating pull and tug of con-fioting wills he will be able to graduate from the dogged simplicities of the two-steps of married life and dashingly lead his responsive spouse through the fine nuances of the tango.

No more awkward mis-steps, no more torn flounces, wrecked tees and marred tempers! no more veiled resentments, no seeking to impose one's will upon an equally determined partner. Not only among married couples but among. men and women generally will peace and concord reign. Woman's sphere has been definitely allocated. She is to follow. There will be no more jarring sex consciousness. Womanly intuition will allow her to interpret her partner's subconscious direction. - She will no longer attempt' to lead him a merry dance, but together they will perform a harmonious duet.

Let us all rush to take five lessons. Let us, if we mistrust our masculine assertiveness or our feminine submissiveness, take ten lessons! And then let Shanghai show the world how ideal social conditions may be.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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