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THE TRANSITIONAL WOMAN.
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break up into companies of one or more hundreds each, all clamoring for their special hobby, cause, work,

Such diversity of interests has some advantages, but it also prevents that directness and simplicity of aim which made our great-grandmothers such devoted, honoring wives, and such mothers filled with the spirit of the Lord, and has reacted unfavorably, to a large extent, upon the home. Not only are the four orthodox kinds of Thanksgiving pies in groaning larders gone, not only has the sceptical feeling arisen that turkeys may be roasted and pumpkin pies eaten before the canonical November day, but the mother-spirit that stuffed the turkey and strained the pumpkin is going, and a new theory arising, that husbands and children ought not to like pies, and that if perchance such taste is inherited, it must be supplanted by the notion that the wife and mother is made for something beyond catering to appetites uncontent with plain apples and cheese for dessert.

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