[The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Business of Being a Woman CHAPTER II 1/27
ON THE IMITATION OF MAN Fresh attacks on life, like chemical experiments, turn up unexpected by-products.
The Uneasy Woman, driven by the thirst for greater freedom, and believing man's way of life will assuage it, lays siege to his kingdom.
Some of the unexpected loot she has carried away still embarrasses her.
Not a little, however, is of such undeniable advantage that she may fairly contend that its capture alone justifies her campaign. Go to-day into many a woman's club house, into many a drawing-room or studio at, let us say, the afternoon tea hour, and what will you see? One or probably more women in mannish suits and boots calmly smoking cigarettes while they talk, and talk well, about things in which women are not supposed to be interested, but which it is apparent they understand. Look the exhibit over.
It is made, you at once recognize, by women of character, position, and sense.
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