Self-effacement was once held to be a woman's path to Heaven, but I doubt if it ever advanced her a step on the journey. To love our neighbours as ourselves is a poor! rule unless we love ourselves with enthusiasm, and care immensely to make the most of our talents and opportunities. When all is said} and done it takes a certain freedom! and dash to achieve anything worth' having. Human beings are not compounded like a chemist's formula, but must grow naturally without the hampering garment of slavish fear.
Fortification is what we must study. We must be fortified in ail} directions, Our physique, our habits of health, our laws of, harmony, our manner of dress, all must be fortified. Health and intellect are the foundations of lasting, personal beauty. An obvious] prettiness that depends on the! colouring of the "emptied shell" or} the transient loveliness of "pale hands pink tipped" has never carried any woman very far. The women who made history never relied! on prettiness. The little "serpent of old Nile" never "caught the world's great hands" with a baby stare, for there dwelt in that most) bewitching of the world's contradic. tions the keen mind of the statesman.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.