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[By BEATRICE HARIADEN, Author of "Ships that Pass in the Night," "The -Scholar's Daughter," eta.]

Does this sound selfish ? Is she solfish ↑

·Probably so; but women have put in long years of overtime in unselfishness which has done 'no' une any good, but. on the contrary, has positively injured the obarasters of those to whom they have been sacrificed, whilst embittering permanently their own spirituality. It It is not to be, wondered at that is time they took another departure. judges in the courts, preachers in the For the moment they are trying common pulpits, and other professional censors sense, which works out a little brutally, are bewildered by the Now Woman. You perhaps, since it is certain that the have to work with her, in a group, play world "cannot thrive an mera common- with her, laugh with her, and, above all, sense. But the New Woman may be trust." rely on her, to know even a little of hered to tone its harshness into solter notam real worth. She is a baffling personage, and she will find her way all the quicker whether as frivolous flapper, student, into new harmonies if she has the orchen- Society miss, or hardworking breadwin tra playing with her and not against nor; for, whatever her walk in life and her."" whatever her genius, her talents, her capabilities, her ambitions, ber attain- ments, she shares with all her young sisters the same modern characteristics, modified or accentuated by her. circum. stances and her natural disposition, She in entirely unreachable by the thunder holts of blame now being hurled at her One can hear her saying, good-humour. odly:

MANN ES AND MORALS,

She is cart to rudeness in hér manners

and exasperatingly abrupt. Someone claverly said at her that she has ceased to be a lady, and has not yet learnt to be a gentleman! Yet in the rough-and- the young New Woman that shows the true chivalry, tumble of motor-bus life it The men may make way for the rich and young and beautiful, but it is the girl herself, baro of arm and rock and shoulder, painted and powdered and of She strides, daches, dances on her new super-red lips, who with alacrity gives trail towards her new goal with a gap her place to the mother with the baby unconcern towards public opinion, and

"Another boring old bear Ending fault with us. Cheerio!"

with a settled air of self-importance, both in her arms and the did and frail of mental and physical, which put the her sex, smart and shabby alike, and finishing touches to the indignation and with a cherry Righto!" or "It's all dismay of her critics. She is, indeed, right," clings on to the strap as if she tremendously important to herself, and were dancing the tange! To be kind and "courteous in a motor-omnibubs "in feels herself firmly planted in the centre these hectic days must be owned by all of the universe. Sho delighte in her to be a convincing outward and "visible independence and is prepared to jump

sign of inner grace. any gates which bar the way to her pro- gress. She is out for the thrill of life and adventure, and means to have ither paint and powder, the scantiness of and she does not deign to pauseam ment to explain or excuse or justify her actions.

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find fault, and with which she shocks our sense of fitness and physical reticence, are with her just so many rubbishy irrelev anco, passing foolishnesses, which no more reflect her real character than & man's still collar gives the cue to the depth of his feelings or the breadth of his vision. If you talk to her about this display of her person, you see how little it means to her, and how, in nine casES out of ten, she is ethically unaffected by the fashion of the moment, and is only enjoying what she considers comfort, whilst innocent of coarse intent.

To begin with, then, it must never be forgotten that she has come into her own in difficult and complex days, when the great world upheaval has disturbed the old order, and the relativities and values are changed for us all. She has at very early and at an impressionable been called on to take an active part in the drama of life. When the boys came home on leave, and everything that could be thought of was done to help

Is the immoral Is she as ready, as them to forget for a while the grim many people think to throw all conven- ordeal to which they had to return, the tions to the winds and give the rain un- habit of pleasure was begun almost as reservedly to her passions? No, certainly a duty. When the boys went back again, not, but there is no doubt that her atti- her duty was to suppress the poignancy tude towards men has changed more than of grief, and, with a smile and a light anything else. After years of suppres hearted joyaunce, speed to danger and sion, during which she was required only- perhaps to death, ber brothers and com to have the right kind of sober emotion rades she had loved or played with, flirt for the right kind of male who fitted in od with, enjoyed herself with in vacuous, with the views and circumstances of hor careless gaiety: Tears and sentiment parents and all the traditions of past were forbidden luxuries. It was requirages, the New Woman now makes a very ed of her to carry on, with head erect determined dash in the direction in and emotions well under control. In her which she feels impelled, and one might own immediate circle the boys fell one well think she was making straight for by one. She remained; and Nature disaster. merciful in some ways, helped her to steel her heart and pass on. Her critica may call her frivolous, or hard, cold, callous, undemonstrative, unaffectionate, if they will; but the reason is not far to seck and at least all must call her bravo.

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There are, without doubt, many in- stances in which the old restraints and rules of conduct are entirely discarded | 5 either thoughtlessly by the frivolous or deliberately by the fast. But taking the average New Woman all round, she knows what she is about, and she values herself far too much to degrade herself, She is not a sneak, nor cattish, nor and sho

can protect herself, if she given much to gossip. As she has an chooses, even from her own passİODS. active lue of her own, full of happenings She does choose, in the majority of cases"; and possibilities of happenings, she has for the instancts of a woman are, after 2 not any need to focus on other people's all, for purity of life. The older men doings nor any desire to tear their may misunderstand her because they do characters to pieces, though it is true, not speak for language, and the older of course, that scandal has lost its former women may be frightened for her because favour, and things which used to be they feel that they themselves in similar hair-lifting, Bezip-raising, are now re

circumstances and temptations would garded more or less as the amenities of never have had the self-control which everyday life. Still, for all that, the New saves her from the precipice. But the Woman lives and lets live. And she is young men with whom she laughs and developing a chivalry and kindness to dances, and smokes and plays, and works wards her own sex which is the outcome, in an equal companionship know her, though she does not know it, of the and know where they are with her; and woman movement of the last three gene if they prove to be what she would call rations. Her confidence in herself is an-

"poisonous skunks," she relegates them other outcome, also her remarkable" un speedily enough to the waste-paper springingness" which she has assimilated basket where they belong. If she had from the influences at work on her be not this half-unconscious yet wholly Balf, and which she has had in stored active guiding principle at the back of readiness for the nse of her country her, many perplexing vagaries, the inti when it chilled on her to take her part mate comradeship between the boys and in the hour-of-need-A girls of to-day would be a menace to Her quick and active mind lacks steadi- society instead of what it is a healthy, ness. Sho is restless in M rest breezy influence which breaks down the less age, when ever the quietest amongst old, silly artificial barriers, and opens 15 find concentration difficult. She the way to the far-stretching and ever- is fearless and impatient. Sho is widening horizon. truthful because she is independent in In some respects the New Woman has spirit," and "snaps her fingers at what probably not really changed at all, and people say or think of her. She is frank in others is merely displaying qualities, and honest, and does not pose at being and capabilities, and tendencies which what she 18-not. Ehe will work hard if have been in abeyance simply because she she wants to do so or is obliged, but she has hitherto had no chance of showing will play hard, too, if she gets the or using them. But the results, at least, chance. Sha absolutely refuses to be dull are a new type, which we believe will, or bored, and intends to see to it that undergo chinuges, modulating into a fine she does not lead a drab lifa... 7: and noble idealism as she learns to use.

She is without reverence, except for courage, Seniority rouses in her no in stinct of respect. She is on her guard against the faintest sign of patronage er condescension. Personages and their So we look to her with hope and pride

She is noti positions and attainments do not make and an immense trust.. much impression on her, for she is sin altogether the child we visualised when gularly lacking in true appreciation of we were working for her emancipation. what others are and do. In this phase The war has swept her on far afield and of her evolution she is chiefly concerned mut between her and us not the space of with herself. She is not demonstrative, one generation but of several generations: for she would consider it "soft" to show But when breathless wo arrive at her: signs of affection- sort of prehistoric side as we can and must we know her flaobiness which had kinship with sofas to be glorious young creature for whom and smelling and fainting fits. that she did not ask to be put into this

Her attitude towards her parents is we have not toiled and fought and con

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world and that she does not consider ahe should be sacrificed and held in bondage- for their; sakes. But it more than prob- able that she would never fail them in de big things, for she has transmuted the remarkable freak of nature was dis traditional sentimental submissiveness of closed at an inquest on a Shoreditch baby which she is now incapable into a dogged in September. protectiveness to be drawn on when A doctor said that the child had five needed. She would, in other words, come fingers and two thumbs on each hand, WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK, up to the scratch and rescue parents and and on the right foot there were five toes brothers and meters, and even faded and three extra big toes, the extra toes aunts, from the burning bush What going jomed together. There were four she is not going to stand is, to have her toes and three big toes on the left foot, youth frittered, away by useless, futile, making fourteen fingers and fifteen toes. Billy exactions and surrenders

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