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Presumably the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913.
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Title: The meccas of the world; the play of modern life in New York, Paris, Vienna, Madrid and London
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Cranston, Ruth
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Publisher: New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f course,she has raised and strengthened the position ofwomen, economically speaking; socially, too. But onecannot but think that she is after all only a partiallyfinished superwoman, and that the ultimate creaturewill have more of sweetness and strong tendernessthan one sees in the determined, rather rigid facesof the army of New York business women of thepresent. As for the New York man (whom one is foreverslighting because his role is so inconspicuous), we havea type much less complex—quite the simplest type ofnormal male, in fact. The average New Yorker(that is, the New Yorker of the upper middle class)is a hard-working, obvious soul, of obvious qualitiesand obvious flaws. His reason detre is to provideprodigally for his wife and children; to which end hesteals out of the house in the morning before the restare awake, and returns late in the evening, hurriedlyto dress and accompany Madame to some smart res-taurant and the play. Here, as at the opera or fashionable reception, his
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IN REHEARSAL 67 duty is simply that of background to the elaborategorgeousness and inveterate animation of his women-folk. Indeed, throughout all their activities theAmerican husband and wife seem curiously irrelevantto one another: they work as a tandem, not as a team.And there is no question as to who goes first. Thewife indicates the route; the husband does his best tokeep up to her. If he cannot do it, no matter whathis other excellences, he is a failure. He himself isconvinced of it, hence his tense expression of strainingevery nerve toward some gigantic end that usually heis just able to compass. The man who cannot support a woman, not inreasonable comfort, but in the luxury she expects,thinks he has no right to her. The woman has taughthim to think it. Thus a young friend of mine, whoon twenty-five thousand a year had been engaged to acharming New York girl, told me, simply, that ofcourse when his income was reduced to five thousandhe could not marry her. I asked what the girl

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