topher Columbus.
To-day, man has no existence; he does not talk in the
drawing-room, but is a dummy. The woman lives one life, the
man another, and they are totally distinct from each other.

The Best Complexion in the World.

She is as new as a man born to-day is new; she is made up of
restlessness and fidgetiness long before she is twenty-five.
But she is very beautiful; she has the best complexion in
the world--better than that of any European woman. She is
also well built and handsome. You see fine specimens of the
American woman in Kentucky and Massachusetts.

A few miles distant from the Athens of old--what would be
but a short railway journey in these days--lay Sparta. The
Spartans were imperialists, and they wanted to conquer the
whole of Greece. The Spartan woman, as I have remarked, was
like the American woman of to-day. She never dreamed of
lovers; her idea was nothing less than conquering man; she
never thought of him as more than a fellow athlete.

The Spartan Woman Ruined Sparta.

There was no womanhood in them, no more than in so many
sticks. The Athenians said that they were very fine, but
there was nothing feminine about them. They were far richer,
too, than the men, for the men went to the wars and died,
and the women thus became rich. Aristotle said that the
Spartan woman was sure to ruin Sparta very quickly. And so
she did, for we find Sparta trying to rule Greece in the
fourth century B.C.; in the third century she was sinking;
in the second century she had ceased to exist.

Modern British men and women, what are they? That is what I
want to bring out. A nation can never survive with women of
the Spartan type, which, as I have told you, is the American
woman of to-day. The Romans were the same, and they ruined
their empire. They had one idea, an all-absorbing idea which
killed all ideas of religion, of art, of everything--the
idea of empire. They spent their entire life in that one
absorbing pursuit--domination; in such a country woman has
no place.

GROWING EMPIRE AT OUR NORTH.

Development of New National Spirit in
the Dominion Discussed by Earl
Grey and Secretary Root.

Canada has been making tremendous strides in the last few years. The
opening up of the vast untilled grain lands of the Northwest has been
followed by an influx