To Swallow And Follow, Whether Old Doctrine

At Any Given Period In History The Ideas Of The Common Mind Are Found To Antedate The Facts. The Facts Of The Twentieth Century Are Approached With The Ideas, Feelings, Prejudices Of The Tenth.

In Great Cities Where People Of Ability Abound, There Is Always A Feverish Urge To Keep Ahead, To Set The Pace, To Adopt Each New Fashion In Thought And Theory As Well As In Dress - Or Undress.

The Original Necessity For The Ceaseless Presence Of The Woman To Maintain That Altar Fire - And It Was An Altar Fire In Very Truth At One Period - Has Passed With The Means Of Prompt Ignition; The Matchbox Has Freed The Housewife From That Incessant Service, But The Feeling That Women Should Stay At Home Is With Us Yet.

What We Do Modifies Us More Than What Is Done To Us.

But Reason Has No Power Against Feeling, And Feeling Older Than History Is No Light Matter.