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if he loves me no longer, I will love him always. 

 I will be humble and as a servitor. I will call 

 him my sire, or my baron, or domine. . . " (6). 



The modern feminine ideal combines the 

 traits demanded by the worship of the madonna 

 and the virtues imposed by the institutional 

 taboos which surround the family. She is 

 the virgin pure and undefiled before marriage. 

 She is the protecting mother and the obedient, 

 faithful wife afterward. In spite of various 

 disrupting influences which are tending to break 

 down this concept, and which will presently be 

 discussed, this is still the ideal which governs 

 the life of womankind. The average mother 

 educates her daughter to conform to this ideal 

 woman type which is the synthesized product 

 of ages of taboo and religious mysticism. Home 

 training and social pressure unite to force woman 

 into the mould wrought out in the ages when 

 she has been the object of superstitious fear 

 to man and also a part of his property to utilize 

 as he willed. Being thus the product of wholly 

 irrational forces, it is little wonder that only 

 in recent years has she had any opportunity 

 to show what she in her inmost soul desired, 

 and what capabilities were latent within her 

 personality. 



In sharp contrast to the woman who conforms 

 to the standards thus created for her, is the 

 prostitute, who is the product of forces as 



