Excerpt from Red Bud Women: Four Dramatic Episodes Mr. Mencken goes on to say: Nowhere in the world have women more leisure and freedom to im rove their minds and nowhere else do they show a higher. Level of intelligence or take part more effec tively in affairs of first 1mportance. Obviously, no matter what we think of the 1ntelligence of American women, this pronouncement does not apply to the womenfolk on our outpost farms. Mr. W. L. George 18, I believe, far closer to the mark when he asserts that Europe does not as yet com prehend the status of the American woman. It 1s naturally prone to draw summary conclusions from the well-to-do examples who tour Europe once a year for pleasure. It knows nothing of the archaic conditions which surround those who are compelled to live on solitary farms. Is the Ameri can woman sybaritic, preying, and idle? For the reader who 13, it may be, still mazed ln doubt, Mark o'dea ln the resent cycle of one-act plays volun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.