The Riverside Press Cambridge

1914

_A fanfare of trumpets is blowing to which women the world

over are listening. They listen even against their wills, and

not all of them answer, though all are disturbed. Shut their

ears to it as they will, they cannot wholly keep out the

clamor of those trumpets, but whether in thrall to love or to

religion, to custom or to old ideals of self-obliterating

duty, they are stirred. They move in their sleep, or spring

to action, and they present to the world a new problem, a new

force--or a new menace_....

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