“Loves to nod and sing,”
and which, if it cannot always get “sweetness and light” to charm itself withal, gladly accepts sweetness and chic instead. Half way between a grotesque gargoyle and a dainty flower-ornament of our social and domestic structure, there is, perhaps, a mean at which the New Woman is aiming; at all events she means to be decorative, as she always has been, and down the ages ahead of us she will doubtless continue to charm, amuse, and marry man, proving herself to him a great luxury, but notably expensive.
The Return of the Girl
By
Maurice Thompson
THE RETURN OF THE GIRL
ταδε νυν ἑταἱραις
ταἱς εμαισι τερπνα καλως ἁεἱσω