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 PRESENTED BY 
 
 PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND 
 
 MRS. PRUDENCE \V. KOEOID 
 
THE EVOLUTION OF WOMAN 
 
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 Narry Whitney M'Vickar 
 
 J^EW YORK 
 
 HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 
 
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Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers. 
 
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 (A Man's) Preface 
 
 Garden of Eden 
 
 Time of the Pharaohs 
 
 Ancient Rome 
 
 Greece 
 
 End of XIV. Century 
 
 OMTEWTJ 
 
 In the XV. Century, 1430 
 Ye Good Old Puritans 
 A Matter of Course 
 In the East 
 A.D. 1830 
 Switzerland 
 
 Belgium 
 The Club 
 
 Venus, M.D. 
 
 The Law 
 
 The Beginning of the End 
 
 The Wail of the Strait-laced 
 
 Golf 
 
 The Open Season 
 A.D. J 900 
 
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(A MAN'S) PREFACE 
 
 " O woman ! In our hours of ease 
 I And other hours | so sure to please," 
 — Who never was (as man was) brute! 
 Why Kv7/ you further evolute ? 
 And, fighting so against your star, 
 Not be content with what you are? 
 
 'Tis true one cannot justly say 
 
 Your progress always found fair play ; 
 
 Yet still, as we survey your mission. 
 
 We think you've bettered your condition. 
 
 In Eden — well, man did not make 
 
 By your transaction with the Snake; 
 
 And since that time it isn't fudge 
 
 To say he's shown he felt his grudge. 
 
 There was that pre-historic male 
 
 Who threshed you with a flinty flail. 
 
 In Egypt, after daily grubbing. 
 
 Your evening brought you — formal drubbing! 
 
 In Greece, at a most classic hour. 
 
 They fed you — to the Minotaur! 
 
(The reason why, a sage allows, 
 
 To-day, you're so " afraid of cows.") 
 
 In Rome, they burned you at the stake, 
 
 And chuckled at the fuss you'd make. 
 
 It was sheer mediaeval duty 
 
 To raffle for you — with the booty. 
 
 Li several much later ages 
 
 Your needle was your work — and wages, 
 
 '^Vhen, loneh, , in your husband's den 
 
 You worked his feats, in six-by-ten. 
 
 In France, ic was a common use 
 
 To wed you as the duke might choose. 
 
 Few wrongs you've suffered much unkinder 
 
 Than those from Salem's grim "witch-finder." 
 
 (Who Just as soon as he bad found you, 
 
 Incarcerated, hanged, or drowned you !) 
 
 — The Turk, to-day, has not forgiven 
 
 Your sex — nor thinks you merit heaven! 
 
 — Oh, yes! There's really no denying 
 
 You've had experiences most trying! 
 
 But — almost everywhere on earth 
 
 To-day dull man admits your worth. 
 
 You've all the Rights your sex affords; 
 
 You've stolen lots that wen' your lord's! 
 
 You shoot — you golf — you hunt 'cross ditches- 
 
 You ride a wheel — you wear our breeches ! 
 
You vote — you preach — you will not rub 
 
 Along in life without your club; 
 
 In arguing, ever a top-sawyer, 
 
 You argue, now, in court, a lawyer ! 
 
 In medicine a busy master, 
 
 You dose and drug and stitch and plaster! 
 
 — It's simple truth — we cannot shirk it — 
 
 You've captured each "profesh" — and work it! 
 
 In short, by ways most sly and neat, ^ ' 
 
 You've seated man in a back seat ! 
 
 But why, why do it ? Won't some elf 
 
 Warn you that you forget — yourself? 
 
 — Of course, you're charming — now and ever! 
 
 In any whimsey whatsoever; 
 
 But do just let this thought occur: 
 
 MAN LIKES YOU BETTER AS YOU WERE! 
 
 ALTHOUGH YOU MAKE OF HIM A MINION, 
 
 YOU REALLY WANT HIS GOOD OPINION; 
 
 AND, WHILE HE THINKS HIMSELF ABOVE YOU, 
 
 HE'S MUCH MORE APT (LEAN LOW) TO LOVE YOU! 
 
 — Why struggle so beyond your sphere. 
 
 When in it — well — you're such a dear! 
 
 E. Irenaeus Stevenson. 
 
GARDEN OF EDEN 
 
AUDEN OF^IflDEN.^ 
 
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TIME OF THE PHARAOHS 
 
All womankind 
 
 At work we find 
 
 In Egypt's clime 
 
 In Pharaoh's time; 
 
 And Rameses 
 
 His wives would seize 
 
 And beat with ease. 
 
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ANCIENT ROME 
 
ANCIENT ROME 
 
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 In ancient Rome 
 The joys of home 
 Were like as peas 
 To those one sees 
 In scenes like these. 
 
GREECE 
 
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 On Minotaur 
 Was laid the score 
 When maid in Greece 
 Did not increase 
 In time of peace. 
 
END OF XIV. CENTURY 
 

 The maid bewails, 
 And faints and quails; 
 But the Captain rails, 
 For they who dare 
 Deserve the fair 
 And wed — their share! 
 
IN THE XV, CENTURY, 1430 
 
To women of all ages 
 Embroidery — missal - pages — 
 Throughout the Middle Ages 
 Are the only relaxation 
 To household occupation, 
 Excepting man's vexation. 
 
YE GOOD OLD PURITANS 
 
Ye good old 
 rA(7t Puritans ;A?j 
 
 W'ltnefseth, that 
 
 Ye ^vo^lfn accufed of Witchcraft are 
 to be ducked [\\ Y^PoiiJ, wherein if 
 
 tlie\^ drown 
 
 th^Y are ftmi'cihtwav pcov^n Innocent & 
 nothing hurtfull -atCV? 
 
 Coiitrav^wife fioweveC /f they^ 
 
 DO NOT 
 
 th.'^y are let dowia^ as /nanyfhings harm full (:■&•& 
 Witthes and formw/t/i are "to be 
 
 Burned J^'^ 
 
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 The poor little witch, 
 For Heaven's sweet sake, 
 
 Will be drowned in a ditch 
 Or burned at the stake. 
 
A MATTER OF COURSE 
 
A MATTER OF COURSE 
 
 In France of old, as I've been told, 
 Whenever the Marquis needed gold, 
 To marry some maid to a homely dependant 
 Was a privilege daily in the ascendant. 
 
 (Of course ,s7'(' was more or less dejected, 
 But dissent — well, thai was never expected.) 
 
IN THE EAST 
 
Unwed, the Turkish women fail 
 When Paradise they would assail, 
 
 Except by means 
 
 Of her husband's jeans 
 Or the orthodox flap of his flowing CJ i 
 coat-tail. 
 
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A.D. 1830 
 
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 A mouse 
 
 In the house ! 
 
 What a fright ! 
 Lingerie 
 From Parce, 
 And a sport 
 Full of port: 
 
 What a sight ! 
 
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SWITZERLAND 
 
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 In Switzerland, 
 I understand, 
 'Tis hard, they say, 
 To carry hay 
 And yet be gay. 
 
BELGIUM 
 
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 In Belgic parts 
 The women's hearts 
 Don't pant for carts. 
 
THE CLUB 
 
CLUB 
 
 While men to club 
 Or mart repair, 
 'Tis woman's part 
 Her lot to bear. 
 
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VENUS, M,a 
 
Oh, may not D.V., 
 A skirted M.D. 
 (^ fori ion three), 
 With clinical glee 
 For lancet and fee. 
 Ever stand over me! 
 
THE LAW 
 
In another way 
 Phryne of old 
 Was not more bold 
 
 Than is to-day 
 
 The maid that pleads, 
 Draws bills and deeds, 
 And other screeds. 
 
THE BEGINNING OF THE END 
 
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 THE EWi 
 
 Behold the wheel ! 
 To pedal that 
 Both lean and fat 
 
 Are full of zeal. 
 
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THE WAIL OF THE STRAIT-LACED 
 
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 O tempora, O mores ! 
 O magni dolores!* 
 Oh sacrilege, which is 
 A girl wearing breeches. 
 
 T"^ WAIL ^^"^"^ STRAIT-LACED 
 

GOLF 
 
At golf she plays 
 On pleasant days. 
 Her skirts to shed 
 She does not dread! 
 A better drive, a better 
 
 put, 
 She thinks, is sure in 
 
 such a suit. 
 
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THE OPEN SEASON 
 
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 'Twere surely weak and lame of us 
 To let or maid or dame of us 
 Lightly to thus make game of us. 
 
A,D. 1900 
 
1900 
 
 Oh, heavens ! in the coming years 
 
 Shall we thus draw our children's tears? 
 
 Shall we too late abase the knee 
 
 Before the evoluted she, 
 
 To blot out all the awful score 
 
 Ere she with us wipes up the floor? 
 
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