The Evening Dispatch

Dr. Parkhurst on "the New Woman."

But, whatever certain adventurous women may think about it, it is sufficiently clear that nature has certain pretty decided opinions of its own on the matter, and that nature has so wrought its opinions into the tissue of woman's physical constitution and function that any feminine attempt to mutiny against wifehood, motherhood and domestic "limitations" is a hopeless and rather imbecile attempt to escape the inevitable, writes the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst in an article on 'The True Mission of Woman' in The Ladies' Home Journal. All the female congresses in the world might combine in colossal mass meeting and vote with passionate show of hands that woman's sphere is coincident with the sphericity of the globe or even of all the heavens, but the very idiosyncrasy of her physical build and the limitations essentially bound up in it will sponge out her mass meeting resolutions as fast as she can pass them.

It is well enough for her to say that she wishes she were a man, but she is not, and till she is she might as well succumb to the fact that God and nature had very different intentions for her from what he had for her brothers, and that he recorded his intentions in a way that he has taken some pains to prevent her being able to forget. I am really sorry for those women that wish they were men. I wish they were. It would be such a relief to the rest of us as well as to them.