e in poverty. The great army of women workers are ill-paid,
badly housed, and their work is not honored or respected or paid for.
What share have they in man's chivalry? Chivalry is like a line of
credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it. When you
are prospering financially and your bank account is growing and you are
rated A1, you can get plenty of credit--it is offered to you; but when
the dark days of financial depression overtake you, and the people you
are depending upon do not "come through," and you must have
credit--must have it!--the very people who once urged it upon you will
now tell you that "money is tight!"

The young and pretty woman, well dressed and attractive, can get all
the chivalry she wants. She will have seats offered her on street
cars, men will hasten to carry her parcels, or open doors for her; but
the poor old woman, beaten in the battle of life, sick of life's
struggles, and grown gray and weather-beaten facing life's storms--what
chivalry is shown her? She can go her weary way uncomforted and
unattended. People who need it do not get it.

Anyway, chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have
both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not
nourishing. It is like the paper lace around the bonbon box--we could
get along without it.

There are countless thousands of truly chivalrous men, who have the
true chivalry whose foundation is justice--who would protect all women
from injury or insult or injustice, but who know that they cannot do
it--who know that in spite of all they can do, women are often
outraged, insulted, ill-treated. The truly chivalrous man, who does
reverence all womankind, realizing this, says: "Let us give women every
weapon whereby they can defend themselves; let us remove the stigma of
political nonentity under which women have been placed. Let us give
women a fair deal!"

This is the new chivalry--and on it we build our hope.

CHAPTER VI

HARDY PERENNIALS!

I hold it true--I will not change,
For changes are a dreadful bore--
That nothing must be done on earth
Unless it has been done before.
--_Anti-Suffrage Creed_.

If prejudices belonged to the vegetable world they would be described
under the general heading of: "Hardy Perennials; will grow in any soil,
and bloom without ceasing; requiring no cultivation; will do better
when left alone."

In regard to tenacity of l