[Illustration:  Copyright by Harris & Ewing, Washington, D. C.  FIG. 44.  Hon. Elihu Root, former United States Senator from New York.  Practical, energetic, ambitious, intellectual, with courage, critical faculties, ambition, shrewdness, idealism, and a keen knowledge of human nature in excellent balance.  Note high, long head; high forehead, prominent at brows, large, well-formed nose; prominent chin, general splendid balance of head and face proportions, and calm, poised, but keen and forceful expression.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 45.  Harland B. Howe, Lawyer.  Practical, matter-of-fact, shrewd, non-sentimental, energetic, ambitious, determined, and courageous.  Note wide, high forehead; prominent at brows rather square above; high head, large nose, short, thin upper lip, and square, prominent jaw and chin.]

[Illustration:  Copyright by Harris & Ewing, Washington, D. C.  FIG. 46.  The late Justice Horace H. Lurton, of the United States Supreme Court.  Excellent example of judicial type.  Practical, matter-of-fact, comparatively unemotional, calm and poised.  Note prominence at brows, comparative flatness just above temples, strong jaw and chin, calm, unwavering expression.]

[Illustration:  Photo by Pach.  FIG. 47.  Prof.  William H. Burr, of Columbia University.  Member of Isthmian Canal Commission.  A fine example of professional type.  Great intellect, energy, ambition, shrewdness, determination, and constancy, with refinement, idealism, sympathy, and friendliness.  Note high, full forehead; large, long, but finely chiseled, nose; high head, narrow and straight at sides; fine texture; friendly expression.]

[Illustration:  FIG. 48.  Hon. John Wesley Gaines, Ex-Congressman from Tennessee.  A fine example of the dramatic orator and politician.  Refined, sensitive, responsive, courageous, ambitious, energetic, friendly.  Note high, long head, prominent nose, short upper lip, prominent chin, finely chiseled features, and spirited expression.]

CHAPTER XI

WOMEN’S WORK

This chapter is not written for the purpose of adding one whisper to the impassioned controversies at present raging over women’s work.  So far as it is within our power, we shall refrain from taking sides with either that army which contends that woman is in every way the equal of man and should be permitted to engage in all of man’s activities on an equal footing with him, or with that other army which declares that woman’s place is the home and that every woman should be a wife, mother, and housekeeper.

Doubtless there are many wholesome and needed reforms being agitated with reference to women’s work.  Doubtless, also, there are many pernicious changes being advocated by both the sincere but mistaken and the vicious and designing.  It is not the purpose of this chapter to discuss these reforms or to favor or to oppose any of them.  We shall, in this chapter, discuss the problem of vocation for women under present conditions.