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AVERAGE PEOPLE.
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The women want some loftier mission than house-work, the men something more than clerkships. So many win the public-school diplomas that they are sure they can also succeed in the struggle for a profession, or for one of the higher avenues of employment. A failure is attributed to any other cause rather than to mistaken self-estimate. This desire for advancement, irrespective of personal qualifications, is the reason for the increasing influx of restlessness among so many persons. Within its proper sphere it must always be a permanent element of human nature; but at present it is assuming undue proportion, owing to the transitional state between woman's future definite activities, her possible, much-to-be-dreaded publicity, and her former quiescence; and because of the deductions made by young men from the false axiom, that, in this country, every one has a chance to be President. Biennial State elections or second presidential terms would be

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