Presumably the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913.
Identifier: meccasofworldpla01cran (find matches)
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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because everyone was off to welcome Gen-eral Rosalie Jones and her company of petitioners:instead of kidnapping the President (as her Englishsisters would have planned), the astute young womankidnapped the people; winning them entirely by hersturdy good humour and daring combined, and refus-ing to part with a jot of her femininity in the process.If I have seemed to contradict myself in this briefanalysis of so complex and interesting a character asthe American woman, I can only go back to my firststatement that she herself is a contradiction—onlydefinite within her individual type. The type of themere woman of pleasure, which implies the womanof wealth, I confess to finding the extreme of vapid-ity and selfishness, as Americans are always the ex-treme of something. This is the type the foreignerknows by heart, and despises. But the Americanwoman of intelligence, the woman of clear vision, fineaim, and splendid accomplishment, he does not know;for she is at home, earning her living.
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Underwood & UnderwoodAMERICAN WOMAN GOES TO WAR!(MARCH OF THE SUFFRAGISTS ON WASHINGTON) MATRIMONY & CO. Of all the acts which America has in solution,marriage is as yet the most unsatisfactory, the leastorganized. It is easy to dismiss it with a vague waveof the hand, and the slighting Oh, yes—the divorceevil. But really to understand the problem, with allits complex difficulties, one must go a great deal fur-ther—into the thought and simple animal feeling ofthe people who harbour the divorce evil. Physiologically speaking, Americans are made upof nerves; psychologically they are made up of sen-timent: a volatile combination, fatal to steadiness orlogic of expression. We have spoken of the every-day habit of contact among them, the trifling touchthat passes unheeded between young men and girls,from childhood into maturity. This is but a singlephase of that diffuseness of sex energy, which beingdistributed through a variety of channels, with theAmerican, nowhere is very pr

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