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IN DEFENSE OF HER OWN SEX

Mrs. Peattie Writes a Reply to the Communication of A.M.M.
She Maintains That Women Are Not Light Minded, but Are Frequently the Family Strength.

Some Sharp Arrows Which Are Shot Without Rancor in This Joust Over the "New Woman."

A.M.M. has a bitter and somewhat excited article in the Public Pulse columis of a recent issue of this journal concerning women's rights as she is fair enough to let them One does not of course know what should have caused A.M.M. to write so earnestly upon a question which at the present time appears to be abeyance. Very likly it was some private discussion which stirred her and impelled her to give voice in public to the personal indignation which she fell At any rate as her ideas represent those of a large class of women and as they are set forth withthe most evident sincereity they are entitled tothe consideration of women who are willing to bear with some pride the epithets heaped upon them by those of shallow wit-epithets which were intended to be opprobitious As Yankee was a term of cotempt, yet came to be born with honest pride by those of whom it was applied, so 'the new woman' which was meant to a slur, has come to be a shibbok h, and the women who work in science, in art, in the professions,in the trades, in the home, the church and the school have come to accept with dignity that appreciation and to fraternize under it.
The arguments which A.M.M. advances against the political enfranchisements of women are very old Though really that is no thing against them Almost all good things are old as well as most had things Nothing is older than injustice Things are older than sophistication and without injustice we should not have had the hergie triumphs of justice without sophistry we could not have had the background over against which the place the fair figure of truth one does not mind that what a originally the could hardly expect