CHAPTER X.
THE REVEREND ORLANDO MULLEN PREACHES A SERMON On the following Sunday, a mild autumn morning, Mr.Mullen preached one of his most impressive sermons from the text, "_She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness_." Woman, he said in the course of it, was created to look after the ways of her household in order that man might go out into the world and make a career.

No womanly woman cared to make a career.

What the womanly woman desired was to remain an Incentive, an Ideal, an Inspiration.

If the womanly woman possessed a talent, she did not use it--for this would unsex her--she sacrificed it in herself in order that she might return it to the race through her sons.

Self-sacrifice--to use a worn metaphor--self-sacrifice was the breath of the nostrils of the womanly woman.