ACTIVE AND LESS IMPASSIONED WOMAN. 1 L 



The spirited, indefatigable, directing, and perhaps 

 ^reproving lady is usually precocious as a child. While 

 still in her teens she is smart, self- conn* dent, business- 

 like ; she can travel, shop, confer, and advise. She is 

 little less wise and she may be singularly wise at 

 eighteen than sho is at twenty-eight or forty-eight. 

 The field of vision of the unimpassioned woman usually 

 wants range and depth, but it is clear from the first. 

 The cleverer women, and these are not rare, take a 

 high position in school life, for they are quick to 

 apprehend and usually have good memories. 



When surroundings are fortunate her tastes are 

 usually refined ; and, indeed, notwithstanding her 

 domestic peculiarities, her feelings are kindly ; she 

 distributes flowers, visits a district, reads to the sick; 

 she is usually hospitable in her own house, and as a 

 rule generous everywhere. She would seem indeed 

 to have two natures : with her superficial nature she 

 judges (forgetful of being judged) her neighbours and 

 friends ; but if these are overtaken by misfortune she 

 is not less, possibly more, active in help than others. 



Active, fitful, disapproving men and women are by 

 no means all alike. Their personal, intellectual, and 

 moral qualities vary and are variously combined. But 

 in both sexes there is one unvarying essential charac- 

 teristic the absence of deep passion. Love is simply 

 preference ; hatred is merely dislike ; jealousy is only 

 injured pride. They have not the sustained enthu- 

 siasm, but neither have they the periods of listlessness 

 and despondency which too often belong to passionate 

 natures. 



The unimpassioned woman is more alive to the beauty 

 of poetry than she is to its passion and pathos. 

 For her science has no mystic wonder. Her beliefs 



