This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... II THE WOMAN WHO WEARS THE HALO BEING a plain country woman, born and reared in a little inland town, I lived a good many years of my life before it occurred to me to speak out in meeting and say a few words that might reflect the daily reveries of thousands of women situated as I am, and reassure them a little as to the purpose of their being, which seems at times to be called into question by leaders of the woman movement. There are plenty of hard-headed, sensible women who know that the woman movement is a delusion, and who have the hardihood to smile indulgently when the woman lecturer comes telling us what is the matter with us, and to get up the next morning and take up the business of life in perfect peace of mind, undisturbed by the suggestion that women ought to be looking after higher things. There is nothing the matter with the most of us aside from the natural afflictions that flesh is heir to, and most of the aspirations that women are struggling with are fool notions promulgated by somebody who has n't anything better to do. I heartily dislike the idea of there being a "woman question," but suppose if there is one it hinges upon woman suffrage. I get dreadfully tired of the reiteration of the suffragists and the persistent division between men and women that they themselves make by constantly seeking to bring women into prominence. I hate references to what women are doing. It would be so much better simply to say "what people are doing." The very stress upon the matter of sex implies that it is a miraculous thing for a woman to do anything. Women prove themselves to be in the infancy of their mental development by calling attention to the capers they cut, and particularly so because in no branch of art or industry has...