The Old Idea And The New

Margaret Deland spoke recently bfore the Ethical Culture Society in New York upon "The Changing Feminine Ideal." "The great hope of our women," Mrs. Deland sald, "implies also a meaace, as there are always two sldes to a picture. It is the growing discontent of the girls. They want to do everything to live their lives so fully. The army of young women has found out that love making and marriage is not the only aim. Marriage is becoming to women what it has always been to men - merely an incident. Our mothers took as a guidlng principie selfishness, and who of us, with our shallow, hurrylng selfishness, dares to say we are better? Still, the modern woman sees that this old-time selfishness had an immoral side, for the selfeffacing ways turned many a wellmeaning man into a selflsh brute, and raised selfish children for hls generation. But the present woman's sense of her right to her own life is a constant menace to the family. The girl of today is supplementlng the old word duty with the words 'to myself.' "