A MODERN MADAME.
(According to the New School of Teachers.)
She believes in nothing but herself, and never accepts her own personality seriously.
She has aspirations after the impossible, and is herself far from probable; she regards her husband as an unnecessary evil, and her children as disturbances without compensating advantages.
She writes more than she reads and seldom scribbles anything.
She has no feelings, and yet has a yearning after the intense.
She is the antithesis of her grandmother, and has made further development in generations to come quite impossible.
She thinks without the thoughts of a male, and yet has lost the comprehension of a female.
To sum up, she is hardly up to the standard of a man, and yet has sunk several fathoms below the level of a woman.