It is the man who marries the new woman who is going to get the most out of this life; for even in living there is everything in knowing how.  And far from leaving man out of her problem in life, her philosophy is teaching her to look for his possibilities with the same anxiety that she employs in studying her own; that to adapt herself to his individuality need not necessarily imperil her own; that the first element in the forming of this perfect home which it is her ambition to establish is perfect congeniality of spirit between herself and her husband.

It is as if the new woman were striving, by making the best of her present environments, and simply developing her woman nature instead of struggling to usurp man’s, to enunciate a philosophy of life which I shall so dignify homely duties and beautify the commonplace that her creed might well be: 

“We shall pass through this world but once.  If there be any kindness we can show, or any good thing we can do to any fellow-being, let us do it now.  Let us not defer nor neglect it, for we shall not pass this way again.”

THE END