The Virgin Cure

Her worry over her appearance was plain to see no matter how much she tried to hide it, showing me that even the most serious of women still suffer under vanity’s harsh rule.

donated her peacocks to the Central Park Menagerie two months after she acquired them. This practice was quite common with ladies who mistakenly wished for peacocks, or forty-two white swans, or perhaps a bear cub, or three sweet-faced monkeys. Thus a zoo was born, to save the fine ladies of New York from their misguided gamekeeping and guilt.

CURIOSITY SEEKERS SHALL BE MET WITH SUSPICIONAND A STICK.—Miss A. Keteltas

Recall ages—One age is but a part—ages are but a part;Recall the angers, bickerings, delusions, superstitions, of the idea of caste,Recall the bloody cruelties and crimes.
Anticipate the best women;I say an unnumbered new race of hardy and well-defined women are to spread through all These States,I say a girl fit for These States must be free, capable, dauntless, just the same as a boy.
—WALT WHITMAN