The Art of Being a Woman

The book is not just another " pep talk " on The Kitchen Sink and How to Learn to Like It. Its stated purpose is "to discuss how the ingrained ideas which we have inherited, affect us, as women to-day, and to try to decide whether a woman ought to try to adapt herself to them, or whether it is the old pattern that wants adapting". It seems to be directed mainly to the wife and mother of young and growing children, who so often, in being the pivot of the household, is gradually worn down to the point of having no life of her own for so many years that she cannot use her free time when it comes. Often she has not developed alongside her husband and children, so her place in the home is not a very