Lovely Woman

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: conduce to the preservation of either feminine health or feminine beauty. Hence it comes to pass that the great army of emancipated female workers are nimble, straight-backed, flat-chested, skimpy, hard-featured, scanty- haired persons. They do everything with a click, they wear blouses, they have indigestion, and they do not consider marriage to be a suitable career for a woman of intelligence and strength of mind. They meditate nobly upon the advantages of a system which emancipates them from dependence upon man, and they wonder between-whiles what is to become of them when they attain to the ungracious forty years of spinsterhood. At women's meetings, and in women's papers, you can hear or read a considerable deal of footle concerning the wonders and dignity and importance of this glorious emancipation. Freedom from dependence upon man may, or may not be, a very excellent thing; it depends on the man, and on the woman. But when the emancipated third sex flaps its wings and crows over the progress it is making in the industrial market, it rather wastes noises. Woman has made progress in industrialism, not because she is more competent or even quite so competent as man, but simply because she is cheaper; and in certain cases a trifle better to look at. The greed of the time, a greed which is largely the outcome of feminine vanity, has not scrupled to exploit the third sex to its own advantage. And if the emancipated women of this country have done themselves well, they have done capital and employerdom very much better. And really the net profit is all to capital and employerdom. It would be interesting to speculate on the probable composition and condition of society if the third sex continues to make that rapid progress in the industrial field which has been its proud boast...