One lady confessed that she had never given the question any serious attention, but she came back to it when pressed, and said: "The truth is that we are different from men, I think. My husband is baffled by my behavior at certain times. He cannot understand, for example, why I spend a whole day buying a hat or a coat, only to return it to the store the next day; but I know why — I changed my mind. Is there anything in that to arouse astonishment and wonder?"

And a young wife said that her husband accused her of being unable to run the house, saying: "If I dealt with the employees in my office the way you do, I would now be facing a crushing deficit." But the woman considered this an injustice to her: if he gave her an adequate allowance so that she could take on helpers in her housework — sparing her hours on end of walking to buy what she needs — she would do what pleased him. Another said that a man could understand woman if he gave the matter a little thought, or even tried! He covets her before marriage and longs to be joined to her as a person of the other kind, and after marriage he empties his attention into thinking of the delicious dishes she can cook for him — of which it has been said: "a man's heart is in his stomach." Men are by nature selfish and materialistic; their thinking is so narrow that they believe themselves forever at the head of life's procession, while woman comes last. The dominant man, like a king, cannot trouble himself to attend to woman's problems. And what are these problems?

Woman's world is narrow and confined: it does not go beyond the home and the children — or her work, if she is one of the working women; then the relatives and friends, and the duties and social obligations that life imposes on her. These, in essence, are all that occupy woman's thoughts, though there may be women who enjoy sports, excursions, parties, and the like — places where she is in a man's company; she will not go, for instance, to visit an official place unless her husband accompanies her — otherwise, what would people say?

Thus we see that every woman needs a man who is hers alone, on whom she can rely in her affairs and depend in her concerns, to whom she can entrust her protection and her guidance, and then the securing of her future. Without his company she feels a lack and an emptiness, as if the world stretched out before her in perpetual strife, never coming to rest.

The man, for his part, directs her in her work, makes certain requests and watches for their fulfillment, and expects her to attend to his needs.

Is woman that riddle which man believes himself powerless to solve? This inquiry denies it, and explains one side of woman's conduct.

"What do you expect of her? She is a woman." That is what you hear them say, in earnest and in jest, resting this conclusion of theirs on the notion that woman is a complicated riddle, a creature whose understanding has defied the ages. It is not my pur-pose to oppose or contradict the established truth; but it is an exaggerated truth, despite the complexity of woman's psychology — which appears, if we consider it closely, a distinct pattern of thought and movement, for complexity is a plain feature in the makeup of her personality. And what is woman's idea of man?

On the other side, man feels woman's need of him — not a bodily need only, but an emotional