adventurous creature; woman is an earnest, faithful creature — and for this reason it would be natural that the affairs of the world be entrusted to her.'

Man will never accept that, says 'Toesca'; he is forever objecting: woman is weak, nervous. But Toesca answers with mockery: 'It is true that women have less muscle than men — but the age of muscle and bodily strength is over.'

In Politics

As for the field of politics, experience has shown that when woman enters the battle, she always comes out victorious... Most of the queens who mounted thrones proved able to govern their peoples with skill and capacity.

Toesca points to 'Catherine II,' Tsarina of Russia; to 'Elizabeth' and 'Victoria,' queens of Britain... to 'Mrs. Roosevelt,' who was the right arm of her husband — he a visionary and a man of dreams, while she was a realist, acting as circumstances required... Then he points to Madame 'Kollontai,' who directs the Russian embassy in Sweden with a skill any diplomat might envy her...

And Madame 'Anna Pauker,' foreign minister of Romania... 'Madame Perón,' who rules Argentina...

'Madame Chiang Kai-shek,' who has proved herself stronger and braver in calamities than her husband the commander...

From all this Toesca concludes that woman is the fittest of all for politics, because nature has endowed her with firmness, love of order, and mastery.

Who Will Look After the Children?

...Well then... who will raise the children, if woman takes over the leadership of the world?

Toesca says: and why should man not undertake this task?

He points, in proof, to the fact that among birds the males are more patient than the females in tending the chicks... And our perpetual saying, 'woman is for the home,' is nothing but a false deception which men put about so as to keep the reins of rule for themselves. It is a familiar thing in America for the wife to leave her husband to see to the children's upbringing while she

spends her evening at the club or in reading a book.

Man has long tyrannized over woman down the centuries, because woman lived in fear of letting her chance of marriage slip by... That fear is now dispelled, for woman can work, and she no longer lives at man's mercy.

This is a summary of Toesca's book, whose title is 'The Problem of Women,' in which he supports woman's taking the reins of affairs in the world...

Toesca observes, too, that man has begun to grasp and to realize what lies hidden behind this women's revolution; and so man is anxious even now over his fate, and has actually sensed the danger of being mastered. 'Sinclair Lewis,' America's great-est writer, has written in protest against men's absolute surrender to women in everything, saying: 'This capitulation on man's part has carried women to a dan-gerous point. A day will come when we shall see woman every-where... and man in an abase-ment beyond all abasement...'

Will the prophecy come true? Who knows?