Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1916 — On the Modern Woman. [ARTICLE]

On the Modern Woman.

Justus Miles Forman, in his three last novels, may be said to have drawn three sides of the modern woman. In “The Opening Door” the heroine found out a way to serve “the cause” when she discovered -the role of militant suffragist was not for her; in “The Blind Spot” a rich New York girl became interested in schemes for civic betterment, and in his last novel, “The Twin Sisters,” the girl shows that she cares for other things as well. “I. want to be petted and flattered,” she says, “and, put upon a little pedestal. I want to be told that I am pretty and that I inspire my man to do whatever it is he does better than he did It before. I want —children . . . But there’s something, more —something that has been slowly developing in us women through the long climb upward from savagery. We’ve grown another want —at least, I think we have; We’ve grown a desire to xpe our brains.”