ABSTRACT
It is said that the United States is the only country in which parents are disappointed on the appearance of a boy baby, but will greet the arrival of a girl with undisguised pleasure. The American woman is a tall, trim figure, with erect and firm carriage; she is a bit like the English girl, and yet very different. The life of the American girl is different from that of her European sisters from the moment when she enters school. Co-education has been adopted to a different extent in the different states, and even in the different grades of school has not developed equally. The American woman's spirit of self-assertion would be aroused directly if social equality were to be interpreted in such a ridiculous way as to make the man anything but the social inferior. The outward noise would make one believe that the self-assertion of the feminine soul were concerned with political rights.
