SNAP SHOTS

...Then, when next Tony shines your shoes, you will know, in spite of his dwarfed body, that Tony is an old, old man.—Helen R. Gutman, in The Survey...

...men who will realize that as the richness of a full life is felt by the wives they, too, will in turn receive greater dividends in interest and companionship...

...Her conclusion is that what is called "feminine" is something apart from what is really "womanly," and that this has been due to sex "tradition" rather than sex character...

...New spirits must evolve among the men who will not smile patronizingly on those women who are feeling the call of a new activity and direction...

...One does not want a sick wife...

...A Dog, who dozed upon the settle, Was irritated by the Kettle...

...Coolidge is not unmindful of the perplexities this change is bringing, for the old generation cannot or will not change and the new must whether it will or not...

...No one thinks of her now...

...Perhaps it may mean something for her to know that the problems she is facing are like those of many women who are, in the same bewildered way, trying to fight in the present generation with the tools of another tradition...

...There has recently appeared a volume by a woman whose own life has reached from the older generation, and who with that background has brought an interesting interpretation of the new—Why Women are So is its name (Holt & Co...

...though really there is no movement within one sex which does not find intimate contact with the other...

...And some day soon the American doctor will be called to sign the death certificate...

...The Kettle offered no resistance— Continuing unperturbed at ease The natural functions of its being: The Dog, however, turns and flees, As if all life's activities Concentered in the act of fleeing...

...But New York is bleak and cold, and that is why Celia lies now in the dark room and coughs her life away...

...for the author, Mary Roberts Coolidge, has realized the difficulty of making Clear impressions with figures which are capable of almost any interpretation...

...She cannot die in peace until she knows there is money to buy one...

...The domesticity of an earlier day has passed because the old conception of the home with the advent of a new industrialism has also passed...

...Woman is changing to meet that change, and her demand to be a partner in it is a normal and healthy manifestation of that equal growth...

...No, you don't know Tony...

...To know him, you must know Celia, lying white and listless in a dark corner of a dingy tenement room...

...It is this which must be the result of all the so-called woman movement if it is to lead anywhere...

...Probably not, though he may have shined your shoes and, if he did, you wondered, carelessly, if he were a boy or a man—he, with his slight dwarfed- body and the sunken, dull eyes of an old man...

...Men and women together must work for a solution: an understanding of the long road they have come is essential and this work will do much to indicate the milestones...

...She has ceased to wonder why Vanni does not come...

...Fables in Verse (after aesop) By WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD To be published in book form by the Open Court THE DOG AND THE KETTLE AKETTLE, swinging on a crane, Sang a most contented strain, And puffed, as if with self-esteem, From out its nozzle jets of steam...

...Coolidge draws a very vivid picture of the young girls' days leading up to "the great adVenture of marriage" and a sharp contrast it is with our changed standards to-day...

...Perhaps the dedication of this suggestive study will best express what the author aims at as the ideal relation: "to D. C. and other new men who set human quality above femininity in woman...

...for in very love he wants her to die before she hears that Vanni has so soon forgotten and is to marry Rosa...

...That is why he works so feverishly, for poor little Celia wishes so much for a tombstone...

...Here we have a series of charming papers full of fact and yet devoid of mere statistical detail...

...She has not specialized on the exceptional types who have their own peculiar laws, but has chosen to delineate the "ordinary middle-class women who have constituted the domestic type for more than a century...

...This book, fortunately, is not profound and forbiddingly erudite but its ease in presentation and the surface facility of its expression will be a great help to those reaching for some definitely outlined pictures of the changing era...

...Yet a year ago, every one on the block spoke of her...

...So Tony works and saves and starves, that he may have enough...

...Parents are troubled with the new reactions which come with the higher education of their daughters, husbands at the curious gropings of the wives along lines outside the traditional walls of a home...

...The American doctor, who comes now and again, wonders each time to find the feeble little light of life still burning, but Celia knows why, and so does Tony...

...There was no one as pretty as she, and Vanni loved her, prosperous Vanni, whose fruit stand is just at the corner...

...But the author feels none the less that all this will lead to a greater beauty of living with higher ideals of life...

...lony DO YOU know Tony...

...Sometimes, in the still, hot evenings, Tony sits at Celia's side, and in whispers they discuss the relative advantages of a lamb a broken lily, or, best of all, a broken column with a vine...

...The first part of the book deals with this phase and shows into what many of the old ideals of "woman's place" have evolved...

...Mrs...

...She said she was a woman who found life hard to meet, for she had three children and the pressure of the world was great...

...It was too personal to reproduce but I have no other medium through which to acknowledge it...

...She then proceeds to the further inquiry as to whether the so-called feminine characteristics are inherent and irrevocable or merely the result of a social pressure as expressed by the masculine will and tradition...

...With thoughtless bounce he clasped its nose Between his teeth, as if to close At once its singing and existence...

...but he also knows that every evening Vanni and Rosa walk together as lovers...

...By chance some stray phrase in these columns came to the writer of the letter at a time when it brought a meaning into a lonely life and she wrote to voice her thanks...

...MORAL Before expressing too directly What'er your hate of this or that is, Examine rather circumspectly The nature of the apparatus...

...And out along the village ditches In agonies he rolls and pitches Imbedding now and then his face In some soft cooling oozy place...

...All of which shows that we never know where our little pebble will cause a ripple...

...Only Tony, who cannot remember when he began to love Celia, comes to her now...

...Her main idea is to trace the evolution of the mid-Victorian woman from her rigid conventions, under which the parents of the younger generation still suffer, to the new woman who is taking her place in the world as it has become...