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THE TRANSITIONAL WOMAN.
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not care for their home as they did; it is no longer the focus of all their endeavors; nor is the mother the involuntary nucleus about which the adult children assemble. Daughters must have art studios outside of their home; authoresses must have a study near by; and aspirants to culture must attend classes or readings in some semi-public place. Professional women have found that, however dear the home is, they can exist without it. Many still remain at home, but ask, in their midnight musings, why it should be right for a man to accept that position which the woman, on account of her home, must refuse. The query itself could not have arisen half a century since. Many men refrain from marriage, fearing that the homes offered by them will not be the chief delight of the wife, who will be capable of finding pleasure and occupation in other avenues of interest. It may be a selfish and manlike feeling, yet it exists; and after women have adjusted their position, men may read-

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