An elderly woman of keen mind and understanding heart stood gazing at Whistler’s portrait of his mother. "It’s a remarkable painting of a lovely lady," murmured the viewer, "but there is too much peace and calm to be the likeness of a real mother." To be sure, serenity and tranquility are marked qualities of motherhood, yet there has been far more sorrow, pain, and discord in the long history of women than the pacific sweetness of "Mother Machree" would indicate. Ours is a world which traditionally has not only belonged to men, but one in which women usually have been relegated to positions inferior to cattle and hogs.

REALISM

Nowhere do we get a more vivid picture of the true status of womanhood than in the Old Testament. We are not thinking now of liberated, well-educated, self-confide…