Leisure For Reverie, Gay Or Somber, Does

Leisure For Reverie, Gay Or Somber, Does Much To Enrich Life.

... The Precedents For Feminine Self-expression Run Back Through All The Ages Since The Art Of Writing Was Invented. ... The Era May Witness The First Female Engineer, Motor Truck Chauffeur, Radio Broadcaster, Head Of An Aviation School, Or Federal Prohibition Officer, But It Has Not Produced The First Thinking, Creative, And Writing Woman By Any Means.

The Woman's Bill Of Rights Is, Unhappily, Long Overdue. It Should Have Run Along With The Rights Of Man In The Eighteenth Century. Its Drag As To Time Of Official Proclamation Is A Drag As To Social Vision. And Even If Equal Rights Were Now Written Into The Law Of Our Land, It Would Be So Inadequate Today As A Means To Food, Clothing And Shelter For Woman At Large That What They Would Still Be Enjoying Would Be Equality In Disaster Rather Than In Realistic Privilege.

If This Analysis Of History Is Approximately Sound And If The Future Like The Past Is To Be Crowded With Changes And Exigencies, Then It Is Difficult To Believe That The Feminism Of The Passing Generation, Already Hardened Into Dogma And Tradition, Represents The Completed Form Of Woman's Relations To Work, Interests And Society.

In Matters Pertaining To The Care Of Life There Has Been No Marked Gain Over Greek And Roman Antiquity.