The Lady
By Emily James Putnam
(American contemporary. The following is from her book, whose title is self-explanatory—“The Lady.”)
The typical lady everywhere tends to the feudal habit of mind.... She can renounce the world more easily than she can identify herself with it. A lady may become a nun in the strictest and poorest order without the moral convulsion, the destruction of false ideas, the birth of character that would be the preliminary steps toward becoming an effective stenographer.
Unequal Distribution of Labor
By Honnor Morton
Obviously, if all women did their share of the world’s work, there would be no need for the seamstress to slave sixteen hours at a stretch; there would be no starvation among the poor, and no hysteria among the rich.
The Working Woman Speaks
By Emily Taplin Royle