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286 face that, in spite of its dull eyes, had a brazen, insolent expression. If he was not an editor, he might at least have been one. In order to give him a name, © and a cosmopolitan one at that, I will call him Mr. Morality.

MR. MORALITY — One of your resolutions demands the free, unrestrained contraction and dissolution of marriage. Is that not merely another way of saying "free love?" I am astonished to see German women make a demand which even among American women has called out disgust. What would it lead to, if it were left to the option of every woman to run away from her husband, as soon as he had crossed her whims, and offended her sensibilities in any way, or as soon as another one pleased her better? What would become of feminine dignity and virtue if our women could rush into the arms of another man every day? Indeed, what would become of marriage, and love, that divine theme of our songs, if all were chasing after sensual pleasures in perpetual change? Think of the moral anarchy that would be the inevitable consequence of your new institution. I must confess that I am horrified, and can hardly believe it possible that the moral sense of our German women can be put to shame by men.

JULIE VOM BERG — The gentleman's objections, which so pathetically appeal to our conscience, and are so anxiously concerned about our dignity, are most welcome They give me an opporunity to