[A Hoosier Chronicle by Meredith Nicholson]@TWC D-Link bookA Hoosier Chronicle CHAPTER XXV 14/43
She must learn not to waste her strokes.
Any scheme of education for woman that leaves that out works an injury.
If women are to be a permanent part of the army of wage-earning Americans they must learn to get full value from their minds or hands--either one, it's the same.
The trouble with us women is that there's a lot of the old mediaeval taint in us." "Mediaeval? Say that some other way, Sylvia." "I mean that we're still crippled--we women--by the long years in which nothing was expected of us but to sit in ivy-mantled casements and work embroidery while our lords went out to fight, or thrummed the lute under our windows." "Well, there was Joan of Arc: she delivered the goods." "To be sure; she does rather light up her time, doesn't she ?" laughed Sylvia. "Sylvia, the day I first saw a woman hammer a typewriter in a man's office, I thought the end had come.
It seemed, as the saying is, 'agin nater'; and I reckon it was.
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