CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.The Woman of To-Morrow[7]
II.On Individual Responsibility[15]
III.On Our Relation to Life[29]
IV.On Friends[38]
V.On Enemies[49]
VI.On Mrs. Gummidge[58]
VII.On Mental Attitudes[69]
VIII.On the Essentials of Happiness[79]
IX.On Worry[93]
X.On Solitude[102]
XI.On Women’s Clubs[115]
XII.On the Ethics of Clothes[139]
XIII.On the Average Woman[149]
XIV.On Public Duties[160]
XV.On Home-Loving and Housekeeping[169]
XVI.On Growing Old[179]
XVII.On the Outlook[193]

THE WOMAN OF TO-MORROW

I
THE WOMAN OF TO-MORROW

What will she be like, the woman of to-morrow? We know all about the woman of to-day—her virtues, tendencies, shortcomings, her hopes, aims and splendid promise; reams have been written about the woman of the past, in all ages, under all conditions, her limitations, her achievements. But what about the woman of to-morrow? Will she go on steadily, firmly, unswervingly towards the full accomplishment of what we women to-day long for, hope for, pray for, wait for? Will she?

When we look back fifty years and note what has been overcome, what women have achieved in educational, business, philanthropic and sociological lines, we are wont to preen ourselves and to glory in all “we” have accomplished. Fifty years ago the first woman was just beginning to wrest her diploma from the unwilling university. Fifty years ago the first woman doctor was taking her degree. The first newspaper women were making their first attempts at journalism. And scores, yes, hundreds, of avenues, now so long open to women that we do not stop to count them, were not only shut, but nobody was dreaming of pushing them ajar—nobody, that is, but Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone and their friends—and well ridiculed for it they were, too.