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Title: In Times Like These

Author: Nellie L. McClung

Release Date: November 24, 2009 [EBook #29861]

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IN TIMES

LIKE THESE

BY

NELLIE L. McCLUNG

Author of "Sowing Seeds In Danny," "The Second Chance,"
and "The Black Creek Stopping-house."

TORONTO

McLEOD & ALLEN

1915

COPYRIGHT, 1915,

BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

_DEDICATION_

I

TO THE SUPERIOR PERSONS

Who would not come to hear a woman speak being firmly convinced that it
is not "natural."

Who takes the rather unassailable ground that "men are men and women
are women."

Who answers all arguments by saying, "Woman's place is the home" and,
"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," and even sometimes
flashes out with the brilliant retort, "It would suit those women
better to stay at home and darn their children's stockings."

To all these Superior Persons, men and women, who are inhospitable to
new ideas, and even suspicious of them, this book is respectfully
dedicated by

THE AUTHOR.

Upon further deliberation I am beset with the fear that the above
dedication may not "take." The Superior Person may not appreciate the
kind and neighborly spirit I have tried to show. So I will dedicate
this book again.

_DEDICATION_

II

Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an
unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests
primarily upon the sense of fair play which people have or have not
according to how they were born, and

Believing that the man or woman born with a sense of fair play, no
matter how obscured it has become by training, prejudice, or unhappy
experience, will ultimately see the light and do the square thing and--

Believing that the man or woman who has not been so endowed by nature,
no matter what advantages of education or association, will always
suffer from the affliction known as mental strabismus,