would love to be a lithe and slender woman, and wear one of those jaunty cloche hats, and a silver-gray frock, and shoes of the color of young, freshly minted gold. Futile wish, of course, but the charm of all futile wishes is that they allow one to go to the limit of the imagination.

However, that is not the only reason why I would like to be a woman. In my soul, deeply buried, I have a rather stifled con- sciousness of being a barbarian. Nearly all women are barbarians at heart. Perhaps that is why I feel so much at home with them. They have the gentle impulses, the generosity, the rhythm, and the poetry of the barbarian, besides being capable of a perfectly bar- baric intensity of feeling.

Love gives a woman more emotional pleasure than it gives a man. She becomes surrounded by it and swims in it as a fish swims in the sea. No man can do that; he is always distracted by his wretched business, or his duty, or the telephone, or something.

But love is not woman's only emotional function. Women are able to keep up long-sustained and ably conducted hates. They have a far greater range or feeling than men have, and I like that. They lay their cool hands on the fevered brow of humanity, altho now and then some of them drop a little poison in the coffee.

Civilization is distinctly a man's invention, and women have never grown quite accustomed to it. Man invented virtue, too; it will probably go down in history as his most noble experiment.

I think that one of the most attractive features of being a woman is that she can be virtuous with dignity, but few men can- and it is a most difficult thing to do. If a woman does not care for a man's advances she can tell him so, and usually does. There- upon she acquires a new luster in his eyes. He is defeated and humbled. He goes home and bows in fancy before her shrine. But just let a man try it and see what happens.

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"Madam, we can imagine the gentleman saying to the lady, "I seo that you are in love with me, and would surrender yourself to me if I would say a word, but I want you to understand that I do not love you, and that you would greatly oblige me if you would leave me alone." That--or words to that effect. Thereafter that

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