This is not the first time in which woman accuses man and complains of his injustice and of his overweening pride.

There is no doubt that the women's movements resounding in our ranks today arose thanks to man's encouragement of them and his support of their developments; he is the originator of the women's renaissances upon which we shall build our sounder and stronger society. But it grieves me, and grieves many women, to say that he did this only to kill his idle hours, taking the women's move-ments as a jest to amuse himself with, and warding off with their steps the tedium and boredom of his world. Otherwise, what is the meaning of his negative attitude toward them and his total with-drawal from the work of directing them in a sound, right direction that would return upon him and upon woman and upon society as a whole with good and success???

You see the man in our country forever asking about woman's intellectual production ever since, with his help, she crossed the boundary of her seclusion — for intellectual production, in his usage, is the measure of ability and the token of equality with him. Where, then, is her intellectual production that would entitle her to what she demands: to plunge into the fray of politics and society? He hopes from her, in this short stretch of time she has covered in the field of thought and work, that she should endow the world with

a productive woman of letters who produces what Shakespeare produced, or with a woman artist who presses her very self into a plaintive melody like the melodies of Beethoven, or with a great woman who melts down her brain and brings forth the philosophy of a Plato of the twentieth century, or with a prodigy who thinks deeply and presents the nation with the theories of Einstein, the discoveries of Pasteur, and the inventions of Edison. Man asks about all this and takes it as a crushing argument against woman's mental capacity, but he forgets and ignores that he did not open before her the doors of higher education out of desire for production, innovation, and cre-ation, but in the hope that woman, once enlightened and once she understood the toil of production and the difficulty of innovation, would grow in her appreciation of him, her admiration for him, and her comprehension of his creative faculties, and would thereby walk with him in a manner in keeping with the respect, appreciation, and admiration he deserves — so that her appreciation of his production would increase, and her admiration of his creation, and her respect for his progress. The man in our country, then, ought not to ask about women's production, for he educated woman only that she might value his learning at its true worth, and he raised her up only that she might inflame his poetic spirit and kindle his ardor.

Woman answered the call — so what ails man that he attacks her and brands her with weakness and faintheartedness? He said to her: rise and struggle, for the demands of our age require of you work and struggle. Yet hardly had she

begun her fight in answer to his wishes than he abandoned direct-ing her toward that for which she was made — the care of home and family — leaving her exposed to the tattle of malicious, deadly women. So she is no longer the fortified mother our society needs, nor the fighter distinguished in the fray... He wants her forward, free, and bold; and when she is so, he turns away from her, saying she is reckless, flighty, mannish... He asks her to be productive; and when she melts down her brain and produces, he attributes her production to her father or her brother or her husband, as though in his eyes she were still a child of limited perceptions and feeble thought... He whispers in her ears that he fell in love with her only for her sound awareness and her walking by the light of reason in her conduct; and when she shows awareness, sense, and thought, in fulfillment of her sweet hopes of winning his love and possessing the reins of his heart, he catches her attention with his varied compliments aimed at the beauty of the face, the radiance of the countenance, the harmony of figure and dress — compliments of every kind embracing everything except the wealth of mind and the dignity of thought. Thus he instills in her the notion that what pleases him in her is outward beauty, and she turns with her whole being to adornment and finery, to obtain a beauty with which to snare the man's heart — the more so as she inclines by nature to all that. So her energy weakens in the striving to attain the more lasting and stronger beauty — the beauty of the mind and the charm of the soul! And what makes matters worse is that man, on every occa-