rs' factories at the lunch hour and made
the working girls sign their petition."

A scholarly review of Morley's Life of Gladstone was given by Mrs.
Harriot Stanton Blatch (Eng.). Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman turned A
New Light on the Woman Question, saying:

My subject is a scientific theory as to the origin and relation
of the eternal duo. It was started by our greatest living
sociologist, Lester Ward--the explanation of the order in which
the sexes were developed. What is it that this suffrage movement
has had to meet, as it has plowed along up hill for fifty years,
with its tremendous battery of arguments which it discharges into
thin air? What it has to overcome is not an argument but a
feeling, which rests at bottom on the idea expressed in the "rib
story." As a parable this fairly represents the old belief that
man was created first, that he was the race, was "it," and that
woman was created, as modern jokers put it, for "Adams Express
Company." The poet expressed the same idea when he called woman
"God's last, best gift to man." ... Ward gives the biological
facts. In the evolution of species the earliest periods were the
longest. During ages of the world's history, while animal life
was slowly evolving, the female was the larger, stronger and more
representative creature; the male was small, often a parasite,
told off for the sole purpose of reproduction. By natural
selection, the female choosing always the best male, the male
was gradually developed until he became bigger and stronger than
the female. For a time natural selection continued to work, the
males competing for the favor of the female. Then the male
reduced the female to subjection. It occurred to him that it was
easier to fight one little female once and subjugate her than to
fight a lot of big males over and over.

The feminine ideal with many is the bee-hive--lots of honey, lots
of young ones and nothing else. It was necessary that the male
should become dominant for a time if the race was to progress.
Now women are ceasing to be subjugated and we are approaching a
state of equal rights. It was through a free motherhood and the
female's constant selection of the best mate that she brought
into the world power and brain enough to enable man to do what he
has done. That free motherh